You're correct. We don't need 4 starting receivers. We need an flanker, a split end, a slot receiver and a backup. Edelman is the backup. Amedola is our slot receiver. Edelman is our backup, especially in the slot. These guys might do damage downfield on a regular basis, or not.
We'll see if Sanders is on the team. Having Sanders and Jones going downfield in 3 wide receiver sets is not great. But we still have the rest of free agency and the draft to acquire players.
Cousins. I don't think Tomlin let's Sanders go because Big Ben is whining and gives his highness a built in excuse for 2013. So let us review.
All you BB "let's get a WR in the Draft" Cousins. BB has went bto the WR draft 8 times since 2002 (eleven years) and has struck out (ok Edelman as a QB convert). It's reasonable for him to trade or pick up a FA because WR and CB's (Dennard might work but even McCourty was shaky after a first good year and I certainly would not want him as my starting CB now) are not his forte. If you can't hit a curve ball, quit trying and use patience and wait for the fast ball.
One of BB's favorite Draft trading partners is now the coach at K.C.. I have a possible angle. Until 2011 and Reid's death knell in Philly last year, those two traded 10 strait years. Trades amount to trust.
"A salary-cap move!" Philly coach Andy Reid joked on Saturday night. The truth is, Reid and Belichick had made a deal with each other for 10 straight years (not restricted to the draft), and here it was, the sixth round, and they hadn't made one yet. So they got on the phone and Reid said, "Listen, our streak is in trouble." Here came the no-harm, no-foul deal. Both took linebackers whom the other team wouldn't have picked—Philly drafted Ohio State's Brian Rolle, and New England picked Markell Carter from Central Arkansas. Who said Reid and Belichick are always serious?
K.C. Can use an OLB/DE for their 3-4. Where as Germaine Cunningham was a second round reach that BB tried before switching back to a 4-3, it appears he is on his last legs here. He is a FA in 2014 and his salary this year is $630,000.
Jonathan Baldwin was the Chiefs late first rounder in 2011. He is a disappointment and lingers behind Bowe. His 2013 salary is $1,061,510. At 6'4" and 228lbs with 4.5 speed and a 42" vert., this is the same guy that BB advised Thomas Dimitroff of the Falcons to pick over Julio Jones with supposedly the same skill set, so they did not have to trade down the 6th. Unfortunately BB couldn't pick a WR for the Falcons either .....but.....We know BB has had his eye on Baldwin at some point in time.
It is fair to say Baldwin has not lived up to late first round expectations. The book on him from RAC and Pioli is a phone call away.
I think it would be fair to say that Cunningham has not lived up to his mid second round expectations although he did more in 2012 to maybe create interest in a trade. He is still young and more of a 3-4 type player. With the roster additions so far in 2103, Cunningham could be odd man out here. K.C. plays a 3-4. He could make sense for them and his salary numbers are low.
If Baldwin can be straightened out perhaps by a winning locker room and having TB pitching at him, perhaps his career is revived.
There could be a starting WR with potential and a believed first round talent.
"Wes Bunting of the NFP noted that several scouts he talked to love Baldwin's talent"
Can he get his act together?
Thoughts?
DW Toys
P.S. Anyone think that Titus Young has had some therapy and has realized the NFL can set the rest of his life up financially? Is the fact that Fisher who is no nonsense sent him packing and he now gets it that anyone signing him is now his last strike? Would the Pats dare take a shot at him when he is poison as was Randy Moss in 2007? Most had Moss finished and too much of a locker room killer and BB got three superb years in total out of Moss. I think you can pay Young ball boy prices to get him to try his last shot. His leash would be as short as his ripa rapper before...see ya!
Thoughts there as well?
