(08-19-2018, 04:10 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(08-15-2018, 06:32 PM)Predator Wrote: The Jags were looking for a young player with freakish size and speed to potentially add another dimension to the offense.

Kendall Wright would have been a great fit if we were looking to add a small and slow WR with no upside to our offense.

Body type means nothing if the player doesn't produce on the field. As a comparison, look at the careers of both players. Wright averages 47 yards receiving a game in his career. Moncrief averages 35.4. Wright averages 11.4 yards per reception in his career and Moncrief averages 12.3. Finally, they both have the exact same amount of 40+ yard gains in their careers with 5 each. Is there really a difference? For a player with such size and speed, Moncrief has not separated himself from the supposedly, "small, slow" Wright. You can have all the size and speed in the world, but if you are injury prone, can't run crisp routes or cannot get off the press to get separation consistently, you're just a guy. Is size and speed that much of a factor to give Moncrief $9.6 million when you could have had a player who would give equal production for $1 million?

Body type, speed, and youth mean everything in this sport. Freak athletes like Moncrief can open up the passing game without the ball even being thrown to them. Moncrief is also a much greater redzone threat. He has 1 less career TDs than Wright while playing almost 30 fewer games. That is a significant advantage especially when the team is trying to replace the TD production of a guy like Robinson

If the jags were looking for journeyman production with their signing, they would have saved money and gone with someone like Wright. What you fail to understand is that the Jags were looking for someone who has the potential to be much more than a journeyman and Moncrief has boatloads more potential to be that than Wright.

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