(10-24-2017, 10:01 PM)haveaseat Wrote: I'll gladly eat crow. I thought he was terrible. I made a thread with the exact same name at one point. He couldn't generate any pressure. Only made impacts on being schemed into stunts. This year he's actually comfortable with playing with his hand in the dirt. He's converting his speed to power and choking guys at the line of scrimmage.

One thing I've learned over the years is that sometimes it takes players time to learn the tricks of their trade, for various reasons.

Sometimes players get injured early-like Fowler.
Sometimes players are immature-like Fowler.
Sometimes, players may not get the best of coaching-(Fowler, perhaps?).
Sometimes, it just takes a while to "get it."

Now in fairness, many times, players never turn the corner.  They start out ineffective and remain ineffective and officially become busts.

I try not to be too quick to pull the plug on guys.  To me, there were enough obvious mitigating factors-most notably the injury and inexperience-to enable me to give Fowler a little more time.  But I gotta admit, his off field stuff made it hard.

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