Nors;2310645 said:
For that high a draft pick to being shopped/traded near bust.
Once again, you demonstrate that you know absolutely nothing about pro football...
Roy is being shopped for two perfectly good reasons:
1) He's an unrestricted free agent after this season, and unless the Lions are willing to franchise him, he's unlikely to re-sign with Detroit... so they might as well try to get something for him now, before they lose him for nothing...
2) The Lions are highly unlikely to franchise Roy, because they're deep at WR, and have serious needs in MANY other places, and need cap room to address those needs (and an extra pick or two would help that process along too)...
Furrey/ McDonald squeezing him out says it all.
Oh, sweet Jay-sus... there you go again...
Furrey has all of 8 catches for 52 yards this year, for 0 TDs... that's a 6.5 YPC average... McDonald has 11 catches for 65 yards, again for 0 TDs... that's a 6.1 YPC average... their play isn't "squeezing" ANYBODY out...
Meanwhile, Roy has 15 catches for 209 yards and 1 TD... all by himself, he has 82 more yards than Furrey and McDonald COMBINED... and 1 more TD...
Roy has also started all 4 games for the Lions, while Furrey and McDonald have each started 1... clearly, he's not being "squeezed out" by either one of them... he's the second leading receiver on the Lions, behind Calvin Johnson...
Neither Furrey nor McDonald can do what Roy does, they're both smallish slot receivers... Roy is the big, downfield receiver, the chains mover, as evidenced by his 14.8 YPC average, and the fact that 178 of his 260 catches have gone for first downs... in addition, over a quarter of his career catches (66) have gone for 20 yards or more, and 1 catch in 20 has gone for 40 or more...
McDonald has an 11.8 YPC average, 3 yards less than Roy's, and only 1 in 7 of his career 196 catches have gone for 20 or more, and he has just 2 career catches over 40... he has 10 TD catches in 196 catches, 1 in every 19.6, compared to Roy's 29 in 260 catches, 1 in every 9.0...
Furrey has a career 10.6 YPC average, 4.2 yards less than Roy's, and only 7 TD catches in 188 career receptions, 1 in every 26.9... IOW, Roy is 3 times more likely to take one of his receptions to the house... Furrey has 12 catches of 20 yards or more in those 188, 1 in every 15.7, and just ONE catch over 40...
IOW, Furrey and McDonald are smallish possession receivers who are at their best working out of the slot, and they are NOT downfield threats... bluntly, neither one can carry Roy's jock...
At the same time, they are both quite serviceable slot receivers, and along with the presence of a brilliant feature receiver like Calvin Johnson, are enough to make Roy expendable, in the Lions' quest to upgrade the rest of their roster...
If you knew ANYTHING about football-- which you obviously don't-- you wouldn't be so profoundly ASININE as to suggest that either one of them is anywhere close to as good as Roy Williams is...
It really is ridiculous, watching you constantly try to tear down a receiver who averages over 70 catches for every 16 games played, and nearly 1050 yards for every 16 games played... all this while playing with some highly marginal quarterbacks...
The ONLY knock on Roy, and it's a legitimate one, is that he seems to get nicked up a lot... yes, he drops some balls, but ALL NFL receivers have their drops... TO isn't immune to that problem either...
It's my belief that in a good offensive system, Roy Williams could give you 80-90 catches in a season, for around 1200 yards, and about 10 TDs...
