Ummm... you guys have got to be sh***ng me.
The Lions WR who has averaged roughly 50 catches and 700 yards/year, while missing time due to injury in each of his first 2 years in the league, over our perennial Pro Bowl SS who hasn't missed a single game in 4 years? That's comedy.
"Potential is nothing... production is everything." - Bill Parcells
Until Roy E. produces great numbers, he isn't fit to hold OUR Roy's jock. He's scored 8 TDs/year, which is good... but his catches and yards are pedestrian at best. They have an upgrade at QB in Kitna (although anyone's an upgrade over Harrington), and Mike Martz's offense which will obviously be built around the passing game. No excuses this year.
Joey Harrington sucks, true... but if I look hard enough, I can find a few WRs who have put up much better numbers with weak QBs as well. See Andre Johnson in 2003 and 2004. Or Joey Galloway in 2005. Or Derrick Mason in 2005. And seeing as how the Lions have no other proven offensive weapons (Kevin Jones is hot and cold), there's no real reason for Roy E.'s numbers to not be better than they are... other than the fact that he hasn't been very good himself.
Must be a lot of Longhorn fans in this thread.