Justafan

I’ve heard it all now. Jeff Fisher got CJ to the 7th most yards in a season all time and Derrick Mason to the second most all purpose yards of all time but is also apparently a moron who couldn’t figure out how best to use his players.

Don’t know much about him but looks like a strong option. Definitely has the athleticism, hands, and the initial ‘pop’ you want to see.

So my question would be, do people feel better about Slater/Schlottman starting next to a rookie or A rookie center starting next to Volson?

George had seasons with 45+ catches. CJ, despite not being a receiving back had 500 yards in his 2500 yard season. I think Fisher knew how to use those guys just fine.

I don’t know much about him. From what I’ve read he’s a high level backup and not a starter who struggles with pass protection. If that’s the plan, I feel even worse about it.

Your theory is that Fisher, a guy who was paid millions of dollars to coach football, took them to the Super Bowl, and coached a season where CJ ran for 2000 yards, was such a moron he couldn’t figure out that CJ was meant to play in a different style?

Wouldn’t them not asking him to do it be a pretty obvious indicator that he wasn’t great at it?

Of all the things I thought I might argue on this site, convincing people that CJ wasn’t a great receiving back… Seems like such an obvious thing that it never crossed my mind.

Like what I saw from Slater last year but the thought of starting a rookie next to him is scary. Not a great strategy to help or develop a young QB, which is what they’ve said they want to do.

He was a home run hitter who took screens to the house which heavily inflates his receiving stats. That’s a poor way to judge his impact to the passing game. Just my two cents. I get it that you see it differently.

Kinda where I’m at with Styles. Great player. No doubt would thrive here…. But I trust this regime to find a LB probably more so than any other position.

Like I said, you could use him on screens and sometimes he could sneak out to the flat or something like that and if you could get him the ball in the open field he was deadly. He wasn’t lining up out wide, running routes, and making contested catches or anything like that though.

That’s because he wasn’t. He was recruited as a two star RB. It takes 10 seconds to look up his RB stats in college.

Taking Styles would allow Gray to slot into that WLB role. Probably a more natural position for him and allow him to play to his strengths by attacking downhill more.

What? You just said upthread: (paraphrase) “you guys agree on taking Love at 4. It’s okay to agree with the consensus lol”.