Heimerdinger Wanting More from WRs

Those wide receivers are CHEAP!

 

It's rare that a rookie has 900 yards in his rookie season. But those chances surely go up if that rookie starts. From what I've seen, we'd be as good going with a rookie starter as we are going with McCareins, B.Jones, whoever.


On the second point you said, even as a Vols fan, I was never very big on Meachem and glad we didn't draft him. Ginn Jr though, I may be in the minority, but I would be psyched if we had him. He could end up a bust, and we never had a shot drafting him, but I would've liked it if he had ended up a Titan.

 

I'm not sure I"m following. Gage, Williams, and McCareins are vets and have played in many games. The others are 2nd years who should be demonstrating they are worthy of game time. That is what pre-season is for- so I don't think the "it's just pre-season" line of reasoning holds any validity at all. You really don't think they are magically going to start getting separation and not drop balls during the regular season do you?

Please clarify.

And again-my main response to this article is simply that the organization doesn't have anybody but themselves to blame for poor WR production. The organization is responsible for scouting, drafting, player development, reasonble depth and FA acquisition. I realize Dinger may just be trying to motivate the squad, but I can't deny they appear below average.

 

TJ- it is true that the pre-season doesn't count for squat as far as the record, but you can't deny it is important to assess who makes the squad, where your team, assessing individual's skills in order to gameplan for opening day, etc. Yes, the pre-season play-calling is vanilla which does have an impact on scoring TD's but our WR's are separating or holding on to the ball where. That does mean something because that is UNLIKELY to significantly improve.

We haven't scouted, drafted or developed WR's well. I don't know which one, if any, of those we have done worse. We could have landed some WR's, we just haven't been willing to spend big money and we have only been interested in "value" shopping. Is that smart? Not if our offense is getting stymied and opposing D's stop our run. I agree we'll just have to see if our WR's give us enough to keep that from happening. If so, then we have been wise to be prudent in the FA WR market.

 

Well, that's kind of hard to do. If we drafted a WR early, there is a chance we would be using that WR as a starter. It's hard for me to bet on rookie's against Gage, when Gage is our number1 and no rookies are number1 anywhere.

That said, I think Desean Jackson has the best chance, since the Eagles WR core is depleted. I think Devin Thomas and/or Malcolm Kelly could be good WRs, but I'm not sure how much chance they will get in Washington behind Santana and Randel-El.



To me, this is like the "There were no first round WR talent because none were taken in the first" argument. Well true, but another line of thinking is there were 6 WRs ranked similarly, and maybe the teams figured they could pass in round 1, to get another need, and still get a top ranked WR according to their board.
In other words, the lack of talent seperation between the top WRs in this draft helped cause their slide on draft day.

 

And you forget Jason Jones is having a solid playmaking preseason for us. We went 10-6 last year without a great wide receiver. We went 0-3 without a great defensive tackle. (Haynesworth)

We have spent an insane amount of mid-round picks on wide receivers the last few years. Still nothing to show. So you expect management to take more mid-round receivers instead of guys who can and will contribute THIS year?

I agree we need to find some receivers, but we have to wait for the opportunity to come. It just has happened yet.