*****The Chris Conley Thread*****

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Originally Posted by Iowanian

I am fully on this bandwagon so far...I like everything about Conley and the only real area of need I hear about is a need to improve route running. He is intelligent enough to figure it out.

That's a godsend. If you have to pick something that a player has a deficiency in at the position, by far route running is the easiest to address and correct. Footwork, shading, body mechanic efficiency can be easily taught. After that, it's a repetition until doing it properly becomes 2nd nature.

It might sound like a bizarre compliment, but often some of the poorest route runners are the guys who have the star potential. Natural talent and athletic advantage has afforded them the ability to be successful in spite of their lack of technical proficiency. Randy Moss never became a decent route runner because even at the highest level he was a genetic freak that virtually no one could shutdown. Randy was the only person that could prevent him from being a success.

Point being, anyone can become a very good route runner if they dedicate to perfecting it.

Jerry Rice had fairly average measurables from an athletic standpoint, but was probably the greatest route runner and technically proficient wr in NFL history.