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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
He's not just a guy. He has tremendous acceleration and ability to change direction on a dime (evidenced by his terrific 3-cone time in the combine). Is he an elite player? No. I don't care who he compares to. I just want him to be a player that positively contributes to this team. Frankly, I don't know that anybody really knows what that role should be... yet.
The problem isn't that he doesn't have ability. It's that we've only seen it in flashes, and he has a ways to go before he shows he can do it more consistently. He has to protect the ball better, he has to continue to learn how to run the entire route tree, he has to get better awareness as a receiver, and he has to be smarter about what moves he uses to set up the next move. And I don't feel like he had quite the spring in his step after his injury until later in the year. I don't know if that was hesitation or just recovery. But in the last few games, I think we all saw a spring in his step that we hadn't seen before.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-fantas...ster-16-yd-run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76nh3VOChc
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-fantas...ter-49-yd-pass
Again, he's got a long way to go, but it's ridiculous to say the upside isn't there. The problem is, in KC, there's not really a place for him. If the Chiefs didn't have Breaston and had more of an Adrian Peterson type runner, I might see his place. But they don't. So frankly... I don't see his place on KC in 2012. |
What we saw, the only damn thing we've ever seen, is the spin move.
I don't give a rat's ass what he did at the combines in the cone drill, or other drill, I see what he's done on teh field in 2 years as a Chief, and all I see is "just a guy"
**** the combines.