Treebeard wrote:coolhandluke121 wrote:M-C-G wrote:I thought Cobb looked spry…until he got hurt and then didn’t.
Yeah, I feel like people are sometimes too eager to imply that a guy past his prime is basically a corpse. If you're not asking the guy to do too much, it could work out beautifully. If he continues to have nagging injuries, then he's useless, but they barely paid him any more than his dead cap hit and it's the right gamble IMO. He can at least maybe be a trusted first down target who knows how to find gaps in the defense.
Amari Rodgers is the real issue, and that's why they need to roll the dice on Cobb's health. I defend Gute's overall body of work, but that was a really bad pick. I have absolutely no hope left for him. I think he's awful.
Will miss MVS, assuming he's gone. Never got the complaints about his drops. Yeah, he dropped some touchdowns, but most of those were only going to be touchdowns because he's so good at getting open deep in the first place. That doesn't cancel out all the deep touchdowns he scored, and he brought a certain gravity to the field that helped others get open even when he was just a decoy. IMO he's still better than a so-called deep threat with much better hands who barely even gets open.
My take is what we last saw of Cobb and Amari was two backend of the roster guys filling essentially the same role and under-performing even there. There's little speed and elusiveness in either guys game, at least by what I saw. Cobb once had both, but Father Time seems to have caught up with him. At least he has the craft to find the occasional and situational open spot on the field. If he's covered by a quick defender, then he's no help.
To me, and I think others have mentioned this too, Lazard is almost a TE/WR hybrid.
Davante has world class elusiveness and top end speed, but of course, that makes him a marked man.
Also obviously, at this date, there's no burner on the roster, if MVS is gone. Malik Taylor's still on the roster, but he's another JAG, with some speed. Given the tight cap, the need for speed probably can only be filled via the draft this year.
Well said. Cobb or Amari by themselves on the roster would be ok. To have them both another year is redundant. Does any other team in the league have 2 small & slow receivers? I know Gute wants receivers that can block but little guys should be burners. They should run reverses, return punts and take the top off the defense.
Get us someone dynamic Gute!
