Lal was a bum from rip. I said it when he arrived. I clowned the stupid walking with bricks thing he made the wrs do. The forum here of course defended him.
I remember that stupidity and ignored it. The only thing holding bricks all day will do is cramp you hands, leads to arthritis, does not make your grip stronger, and definitely does not help you catch a football.
Jerry Rice caught bricks working with his father and said it helped him catch the football. Catching the brick and putting it in place helped his catching skills. Which makes sense because you have to keep you eyes on a brick coming at you, you have to hold you hands in a position that receives the brick (palms open), you have to lay the brick and then quickly reset your body to catch the next brick.
This (hiring idiot incompetent coaches) is the stupidity of Jason Garrett and Jerry Dumbo GM Jones who screwed a very good WR coach like Ray Sherman (Cowboys WR coach 2007-2010 and interim OC 2010) giving a Rooney Rule interview for the Cowboy HC job and then not retained as OC in 2011. I am sure cramping your hands and developing arthritis holding bricks was not in Ray Sherman's training of Dez Bryant in his rookie season, Terrell Owens in Dallas, Randy Moss and Cris Carter in Minnesota, and Jerry Rice in San Francisco.
Adam Henry is a huge upgrade from Lal.