LinvilleGorge

Not all talent can be measured with a ruler and stopwatch. His hands, body control, and ball skills were ELITE.

Oh, He definitely worked his ass off. Don't get me wrong. But he didn't "simply out work everyone". I could've been the hardest working person to have ever lived and I wad never stepping foot on a D1 field much less an NFL training camp. The Jerry Rices of the world is when elite work ethic intersects with elite talent.

And then even crazier to watch Landry do it after he watched Boston do it.

That's what made guys like Jerry Rice and Marvin Harrison so impressive. They played in eras where you could really rough up receivers and they weren't physically imposing guys but they were just so damn good it didn't matter.

Dude was 6'2" 240 and absolutely JACKED and still fast ad hell. He was basically Patrick Willis playing WR.

Then just take it in the shorts and take your 3rd round comp pick. Either way you can't have two guys on elite WR contracts when you have no OL and no D and your franchise QB is taking an absolute beating every week.

Laron Landry a few years later. Same thing. Phenomenal athletes. Great players. But basically derailed their football careers trying to be body builders. Coming guys. That poo is for people who aren't athletes but wanna look the part. Y'all were the real deal and you fuged it up cosplaying like a gym bro.

Yeah, he's largely forgotten in NFL history but damn he had a couple years there where he looked like he was gonna be an all time great. The guy had 1600 yards at 23 years old. He ran a 4.3 flat at 6'1" 215. Then he basically tried to become a body builder while still in the NFL and his knees couldn't hold up to the weight. Then a few years later we basically watched that same story play out with Laron Landry.

Paying Higgins was so dumb. Said well before they signed him that given the state of their OL and their D they were basically in a situation where they had to either trade him, let him walk, or tag and trade him. They have tons of cap invested in offensive skill positions but the rest of their roster is a disaster.

I loved Coleman as a player but at the end of the day if the guy doesn't want to put in the work and can't at least show up to meetings on time he ain't gonna make it. Doesn't matter how good he is on the field.

It's a danger zone. That's the point of the draft where a lot of guys with clear 1st round talent but clear deficiencies in their game get drafted. Those types of guys are always gonna have a high bust rate.

Yeah, he basically turned into post-ACL/losing mom version of KB without having those excuse crutches to lean on. KB is definitely one of those "what if" stories. I don't think he was mentally built for the long haul but if that double whammy hadn't derailed him I could've seen him having a David Boston type run where he was dominant for a few years before the weight and conditioning issues caught up with him and the injuries started piling up as Father Time started whooping on him.

I didn't realize Keon Coleman was a healthy scratch last night. The Bills basically went out there to play the #1 D in the league with no wide receivers because fug this guy THAT much. LOL This dude is gonna end up bounced out of the league pretty soon seemingly because he can't get to meetings on time. Good grief. That's about the dumbest way to piss away a 7-8 figure a year career possible.

Because fug the Pat's, that's why

It tells you that we've won quite a few close games while taking some real ass kicking in some of the losses.