(04-09-2018, 10:02 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(04-09-2018, 07:04 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote: Westbrook and Lee are both flanker guys. Westbrook at OK was used outside and Lee has primarily been used outside with the Jags. There really is no slot guy on the team.

Cole made some nice plays form the slot last season and so did Westbrook. Sure Lee and Westbrook are better suited to the Z than the Y - but they can both do just fine playing from the slot extensively IMO.  Especially in Hackett's playbook where it seems 30% of the slot guy's routes are schemed open with clear-outs or rubs. 

What is it about Lee that makes you think he can't play the slot effectively? 
I don't think the Y receiver needs to have some unicorn-like skill set. Just be savvy enough not to take unnecessary hits, tough enough to take a few of them anyway, and shifty enough to get open and make a catch in a tight window.  Of course the slot receiver's role can be tweaked to suit the player as well.  Guys as varied as Welker, Colston, Boldin, Decker, Hines, Avant and Owens have all done well from the slot at times in their careers and they were clearly schemed in a number of different ways from that position.  

Greene and Mickens are also still on the team and they are certainly considered "slot guys."

I didn't say Lee can't. Based off history the Jags don't use him there much at all. Cole seems like a fit for slot for sure, probably best on the team for it. Westbrook on the other hand... He might make a LB miss 9/10 times but he might break in half the one time he doesn't or has to block one. After watching Hurns basically be led into contact after wild balls thrown from Bortles game after game after game and constantly take unnecessary punishment... Westbrooks frame would scare me off using him with Bortles back there in the slot.

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