Lets get Bledsoe a speed burner!

[kartr]

I'm talking all world fast guy to send deep and open up a defense more. Either draft or FA?

Any thoughts?

He had Lee Evans last year and what good did that do.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I have to half-agree with Nors... and while I won't say "speed" I will say we need a guy that can get deep that the defense has to respect.

But along those lines we do need more help on the oline to allow Bledsoe a chance to make those plays.

By far the best part of his game is the med-deep ball and he needs more time to be able to accomplish that.

 

[Tripod]

He had Lee Evans last year and what good did that do.

Actually Evans didn't start playing with any regularity until game 5 when Bledsoe began his 9-3 run to finish the year.

Evans route running is still in its infancy yet he and Bledsoe connected on several bombs.

 

[superpunk]

He had Lee Evans last year and what good did that do.

Yeah, Lee Evans had such a horrible year with Bledsoe. Started 11 games, caught as many balls (48) as he did this year starting 15, for a 17.5 yard average, and 9 TDs, as opposed to 7 this year. But I can see what you're saying, Bledsoe didn't know what to do with him.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Actually Evans didn't start playing with any regularity until game 5 when Bledsoe began his 9-3 run to finish the year.

Evans route running is still in its infancy yet he and Bledsoe connected on several bombs.

Evans was a nice addition for Bledsoe... I would agree with that.

 

[Bach]

I agree, but we have 6 draft picks and FA. we can do more than draft linemen. unless you guys want 6 drafted linemen and some fa linemen. :

It may just take that for them to actually get it right.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I'm with you, Nors. Speed kills, and only one of our top three WRs is faster than a tortoise.

No, it's not the only thing -- but it does cause big plays and it does loosen up a defense.

That said, I doubt we get one. Parcells just doesn't believe in it.

 

[Bach]

I'm with you, Nors. Speed kills, and only one of our top three WRs is faster than a tortoise.

That said, I doubt we get one. Parcells just doesn't believe in it.

Yeah. I think we could have a shot at Santonio Holmes, but I remember BP hated NE drafting Glenn, another OSU WR years ago.

We definitely need to upgrade the offense, and not just the OL. But I think the OL might be the only area we really address. I see us taking a defensive player or OL in the 1st.

 

[Hiero]

Surprising, you don't often see girls with that kind of speed. I wonder how fast their mom, Senora Moss, can run?

i am going to hope this is a joke that sinorice sounds like senorita.

 

[Hiero]

He had Lee Evans last year and what good did that do.

man you are pathetic, its really sad. do you ever have fun in life?

 

[junk]

I have to half-agree with Nors... and while I won't say "speed" I will say we need a guy that can get deep that the defense has to respect.

But along those lines we do need more help on the oline to allow Bledsoe a chance to make those plays.

By far the best part of his game is the med-deep ball and he needs more time to be able to accomplish that.

The team needs dynamic playmakers that opposing defensive coordinators stay up nights trying to game plan around.

Think BP will go get one of those? I kind of have my doubts.

 

[MapleLeaf]

I remember the track guy SF drafted that got laid out in a game and was never worth a darn afterwards.

...Renaldo Nehemiah. He was a world class hurdler.

Funny how this thread has jumped to speed, speed, speed as the only solution making the assumption that intangibles like vision and elusiveness mean nothing.

While Nehemiah was fumbling through his short lived career there were two slow footed players who were leading the league with YAC who were also on that 49ers team with Joe Montana. Rice was considered slow, but he and John Taylor would often take a short West Coast pass and turn it into big yardage.

How do you explain the careers of Largent, Monk, Hines Ward, Joe Horn, Keenan McCardell and John Stallworth? None of these guys were considered barn burners but they are a complementary mix of past and present receivers who have had or are having productive careers.

 

[kartr]

Yeah, Lee Evans had such a horrible year with Bledsoe. Started 11 games, caught as many balls (48) as he did this year starting 15, for a 17.5 yard average, and 9 TDs, as opposed to 7 this year. But I can see what you're saying, Bledsoe didn't know what to do with him.

Those numbers later in the season came against teams that picked in the top 10-12. You know Cleveland,SF, Arizona. What did Bledsoe do against the Giants and Skins and Rams with Terry Glenn's speed. LOL

 

[BlueStar II]

We know that we need to address the OL this off-season, and adding a young/fast WR certainly couldn't hurt to at least try.

 

[kartr]

man you are pathetic, its really sad. do you ever have fun in life?

You mean pathetic cause I don't like your one-dimensional statue qb who has been released from his last two teams because of poor play. Your pathetic for wanting a qb who hasn't taken a team to the playoffs in 7 years. Bledsoe is a dinosaur who can't read defenses and can't get out of his own way. No one will admit that he can't read defenses because he's a pocket qb. And as we all know, only pocket qb's are intelligent enough to read NFL defenses. So why has so many been busts.

 

[DMX690]

The team needs dynamic playmakers that opposing defensive coordinators stay up nights trying to game plan around.

Think BP will go get one of those? I kind of have my doubts.

T.O would solve that problem

 

[silver]

what's the difference between fast and speed? i'm confused

 

[Gaede]

I agree with Nors.

We need a young offensive playmaker. Desperately.

 

[Hiero]

I don't see how speed = success.

Doesn't this guy need to be able to go up and get the ball? run good routes? etc?

gee thanks captain obvious, I thought for sure the Cowboys would get Justin Gatlin in the first rd.
(had to do it).

 

[CowboyExpress]

No, better yet, lets just get someone who can go BOO! and make DB's jump back on their heels. Speed's (Alvin Harper) overrated unless you have someone to scare the hell out of the opposing defenses across from you (Irvin). Or unless your name is Randy Moss and have his type of speed with the obvious height advantage against all those opposing him. Otherwise your name is Terry Glenn and you're uncapable of fending off double teams rendering your speed absolutely useless. And if that's all we needed, then we were stupid as hell getting rid of Galloway and Glenn should just be the terror of the NFL with his speed. Point being, speed has never done a dang thing for us except for the one time occassion it was lined up alongside a guy named Michael Irvin. And maybe that's why we got rid of Galloway. Afterall he was here only to become that "Alvin Harper II" to Irvin before Irvin went down in his first month here.

You want the "speed" thing to work, then first you need someone like TO here. He's your BOO!. Speed's useless without it. Maybe we should just move Tyson Thompson out to WR with his speed...