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Originally Posted by Red Beans
The reason Copper caught that pass was because no one was covering him. And why would they? Copper got ignored because he was never running plays with the O. Put Copper out there full time and he's dog shit. Horne, who knows? I'll take uncertainty over dog shit any day.
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If we wanted uncertainty over mediocrity, we would cut half of our offensive line and replace them with promising training camp cuts from other teams.
Whatever. It's my fault we're even discussing this. Copper is going to be the 5th receiver if he makes the team. The job of the 5th receiver is NOT to have the potential to be an all-pro. Know why? Because he never ****ing sees the field. Copper's contributions are way more valuable than anything Horne or Urban could do for us this season. Not because Horne can't improve, get better, and make it in this league, but simply because he's next to last on the 53-man depth chart if he makes it. He's going to be the inactive guy nearly every Sunday. Meaning, **** him. We don't need him this season. He can play on the practice squad and get better for next offseason if that were his job.
You don't value Copper because you're glossing over the importance of good special teams players. I mean, special teams is the most boring aspect of football for a lot of people. But if we're going to have this **** awesome kick returner that we drafted, we're going to need blockers and we're going to need gunners on coverage teams in order for this fancy new ST package to make any kind of field position difference for this team. Copper is key to that.