(12-01-2021, 02:56 PM)iHaunting Raven Wrote:

(12-01-2021, 01:36 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Chark ran a 4.34/40 at the scouting combine. He was a deep threat. Since he's been injured we have NOTHING. Brown ran a 4.47/40 which is still fast, so that was not a good example for you. Rice and Boldin were not big play receivers. They were great route runners with good hands, who moved the chains. They were not deep threats. 

You do realize Higgins was a rookie last season playing with a scrub QB after Burrow got hurt? Gallup has been in the league 4 years with a premier QB. I'd certainly hope at this point, he'd have a better season than Higgins. I believe Higgins will be consistently better than Gallup from this point on out though. 

Everything stated on this board is just individuals' opinions. I've never stated my opinion as fact. It's just an opinion.

I never said the Bengals would trade Higgins, I just said we should make an effort to see if they would. If you read my posts, I never said they would trade him for a 2nd. That would be asinine. I said offer them a 2nd and a 4th or even a 2nd and a 3rd if they wanted more. If we Offered just a 2nd they would hang up on us for wasting their time. 

The WR's look worse because they have limited talent and we have an incompetent OC who puts the wrong personnel on the field and has a vanilla playbook. Not to mention that we have the worst WR coach in the league.

Brown was 4.48 so that is ok but Gallup at 4.51 is not fast enough? 
Higgins was also the #1 while Gallup has never been the #1.

I saw that (2nd and 4th), still, they wouldn't trade him for that. A 2nd and a 3rd? maybe but it doesn't make sense for a team like the Jags to do such a trade.
Tyron Johnson ran 4.36, Tavon Austin?. You didn't answer about Westbrook, Conley etc. What about Matt Jones? Troy Williamson? 
Speed is not everything.

We could get Higgins and yet that is not gonna solve anything here.

Laugh all you want, but 3/10 of a second is a big difference. 

That is my point. Higgins showed he could be a #1. It's too bad he played that season with such bad QB's, due to Burrow's injury. Had Burrow stayed healthy, Higgins was on pace for well over 1,000 yards receiving in his rookie year. 

Why? IMO, it makes perfect sense. You get a big play WR who already has a connection with Lawrence. 

I never said speed was everything, but it's what this team is sorely lacking right now. You can't just have straight line speed though. You need to absorb the playbook, run decent routes and have good hands. Westbrook was injured a lot, Conley had hands of stone, Matt Jones had a drug problem and frankly I don't remember Troy Williamson. 

I never said getting Higgins would solve everything. It would be a step in the right direction though.

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