(08-22-2018, 03:23 PM)Kane Wrote:

(08-22-2018, 02:36 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Well, you're wrong. Tom Coughlin and David Caldwell clearly disagree strongly with you. 

You might want to go back and look at how much this team runs the damn football as well before writing off the importance of guys like Lee and Moncrief making blocks. They also play a role in opening up those screens to Westbrook, Grant and Yeldon.  
Downplay Lee's dangerousness on the intermediate crossers and run blocking all you want, but he just got paid big time because he does it so well.

Watch out... Lee fan club in the house.

Anywho... it isn't like GMs (ours and Tom included) haven't ever made a bad decision... or a hasty one.
I saw both WR signings as insurance. What if the young guys didn't develop. What if we didn't end up with Chark falling to us in the draft.
What if what if....

I'm just suggesting, with hindsight and all, that we probably purchased too much insurance.

Reggie Williams was a great downfield blocker on a run first team too.
-shrug-

And outside of a couple camp reports early... Moncrief has been hurt or invisible imo.
Don't get me wrong... I believe the team had to do what they had to do... And I know everyone is preaching this "WR by committee" thing. But if you have 2 WRs that are clearly the better receiving options... they should find their way to the field more regardless of contracts... and a WR job is first and foremost to catch the ball and run with it... Blocking is nice and all but c'mon with that noise lol

Yes. I'm a Marqise Lee homer. I don't see why he gets so much hate or dismissal from most fans. That's fine.

Lee and Moncrief are necessary because the other receivers are either not quite ready or not of the body type to fill their roles.  They will both be replaced by younger more talented guys in time, but you don't thrust Cole or Chark into the X role against press man only to watch them get beat at the line play after play.  They aren't ready for that yet and the others never will be. 
If you've got a boatload of talented young y and z receivers - overpaying to have some insurance at the X spot isn't a bad idea. 
The blocking thing is secondary to this ^ even though you're still unwise to casually dismiss that factor - and it's even more unwise to dismiss Lee's ability to get open over and over again across the middle. 

In a room full of young receivers, a vet that will average a first down per catch and get you ~800 yards and 3TDs is a valuable commodity.

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