You saw the light...
JoeSixPat said:
I used to feel as you do, but such non-Kool-aid thoughts caused other Patsfans members to hold an intervention with me in various threads.
They've convinced me that we are well stocked at WR - specifically that Caldwell is actually a #1 WR - and that we can expect all our other WRs who averaged 4 catches last year to have career seasons (6 passes?)
CATS is also one of the best broadway musicals of all time.
JSP,
I'm glad that you have seen the light. BB is no fool; he has a budget for WRs within the cap and within the context of allocations among the various squads. That budget allows for a #1 WR and a #2 WR; he let a guy who was a very good #2 WR go when said guy, a 7th round pick without many more major upsides, demanded #1 WR kind of dollars.
Then he went out and got somebody elses slowly developing #1 WR candidate, who has been on the usual and typical 3-year development cycle only to have it interrupted by injury. He paid #2 WR dollars for this Reche Caldwell, a former mid second roound pick and expected to be a WR1 that high.
If Caldwell doesn't produce as he should, then all he is, is a talented WR1 underperformer, in a WR2 assignment. That's OK.
BB knows that there are some receptions that Givens got that were due to go to others. Brown didn't get his quota while concentrating on defensive snaps; Graham didn't get his quota, while staying in to block for Light's replacement. Caldwell has played only three years worth of games in four years and averages 25 catches a year doing so. Let the others each have 15 more each. That is all BB needs from the position, everything else is PURE GRAVY!
If Reche should return to his development schedule pre-injury, he becomes a WR1 at WR2 wages. Such a deal! Its a heads I win, tails you lose kind of bet that BB quickly accepted.
BB has subsequently ignored any other option presented to "upgrade" from the "desperate position" that fans perceive, to their horror and consternation. BB seems serene.
Why? Because he knows he can't lose and has already upgraded the WR2 position talent above where it was, whilst keeping to his budget.
Yes, Webber & Rice's's Cats is pretty good, but its too bad that they split up, Neither is as good as the pair.