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Old 10-14-2019, 12:36 PM   #11
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Re: WR Scouts

It is our whole pro scouting department that needs to clean house.
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Old 10-14-2019, 01:43 PM   #12
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Re: WR Scouts

Perception is not reality #=Round Drafted Bold Font Didn't make the team

2006
Marques Colston #7
MIKE HASS #6
2007
Robert Meachem #1
2008
ADRIAN ARRINGTON #7
2010
Jimmy Graham #3
2012
NICK TOON #4
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Kenny Stills #5
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Brandin Cooks #1
2016
Michael Thomas #2
2018
Tre’Quan Smith #3
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Old 10-14-2019, 01:55 PM   #13
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Re: WR Scouts

Originally Posted by homerj07 View Post
Trust in the coaches and front office.

BUT if we are honest. Except for MT and a few others here and their, we don't draft WR too well

Other than MT I don't recall another WR in the Payton era we drafted that had any staying power. Cooks maybe but he starting crying and that was that. Kamara is basically a WR I guess but a lot of lean years at WR from the actual draft without question.
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Old 10-14-2019, 02:35 PM   #14
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Re: WR Scouts

I sometimes wonder if they are scouting/recruiting receivers based on Brees -- Brees being a short guy (6'0", cough cough) with the laser accuracy, but he's often throwing in a lane, or from basically a low point behind the wall of the O line and D line with their hands raised up to bat the ball down. I sometimes feel like they are intentionally looking for tall guys with long wingspans, who can go up high and get balls or dive down low and get them, when Drew makes those targeted throws, where the announcers always say "Drew put it right where only his guy can get it."

Maybe they are looking at body types, arm length and catching style, focusing on those type of measurables that suit Drew, especially height, and maybe some of those types are what are causing the "busts" or the guys who don't ever stick or get traction with the team.
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Old 10-14-2019, 04:53 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Beastmode View Post
Other than MT I don't recall another WR in the Payton era we drafted that had any staying power. Cooks maybe but he starting crying and that was that. Kamara is basically a WR I guess but a lot of lean years at WR from the actual draft without question.
Marques Colston comes to mind
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Old 10-15-2019, 09:26 AM   #16
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John Taylor was a legit #2 WR with Rice for many years.
Jersey Boy who I had the pleasure of playing sandlot football with in the day. His High School coach at Pennsauken High said that he wasn't 'fast enough' to play WR on the team... To quote him after the game winning TD against the Bengals in SB XXII, "Just goes to show you what I know about football!" LOL
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