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Originally Posted by BossChief
I don't give a **** who is better than him.
I really don't.
The way Baltimore defended him in that playoff game was th screaming "you don't have anyone else and even if you did, your quarterback doesn't know it"
It wasn't a case of "Bowe can't beat a coverage corner" it was "almost no receiver can beat bracket coverage when his qb is matt Cassel"
Baltimore basically dedicated a corner and safety to Bowe on every single play and said "beat us with somebody else" and when Charles got hurt it was basically over.
I'd be willing to bet that Bowe (with a full year of Orton or someone better than Orton) would have a bunch of career years and would challenge some all time single season records.
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May I ask what makes you think that?
His hands are above average, but not great. He's not exceptionally fast in a straight line, nor is he all that quick in and out of his cuts. He's not the most focused guy out there, as we all know and his route running is solid but not Marvin Harrison. He's incredibly strong and has good, but not Fitzgerald-esque, body control.
He has a nice package of pretty good attributes and is clearly a very good WR - but "challenge some all time single-season records"? Why? What have you seen in his actual physical potential and day to day performance that suggests to you that he is capable of one of the greatest seasons of any WR in NFL history?
Bowe has statistically been the biggest
benefactor of Cassel's inability to play big-boy QB. Cassel locks in on Bowe and simply force-feeds him. If Manning or Brady or Brees were behind center, a lot of those passes would've been spread across the field to other WRs.
I'm not convinced that a new quarterback would greatly improve Bowe's numbers. It would improve his
performance in that his catches would mean more and come at more critical junctures; but I simply don't see the physical upside or mental approach that would put him on par with the truly great WRs in this league.
If you want historical perspectives - he's Michael Irvin to Calvin Johnson's Jerry Rice. He's a very good to even borderline great WR - but there's nothing
historic about him.