Bourne's reliable on the field. The above about Bourne not just "sucking it up" is an interesting take on the whole **** show. It seems to me that if I'm BB I back coaches against players who think they can mouth off and change what coach says to do. "A player is really sure that a coach is wrong" is just never the best foundation for a HC's decisions. Coach has to back his coaches, and they got the MINIMUM amount of rope to hang themselves with, a full year to do whatever they were going to do.
Don't get me wrong... I wouldn't want them to have another year at it. But yeah, if KB distinguished himself by an inability to toe the line, even when it's frustrating, he's just "that guy." We know he's a reliable receiver, but like Meyers, he's reliable, not stellar. So he was on the bubble if we had to make room for Hopkins. That's not too world-shaking to me.