Shorts needs to shut up. He's a whining cancer in the locker room.

 

He never earned the starting job. He had it given to him by former GM Gene Smith. Some took the Jason Hill and Johnny Cox fiasco for granted. Some took the Mike Thomas trade as a good thing.

 

Others, clearly more knowledgeable, saw this as a bad sign. Rather than earn the top wide receiving job, Shorts III did what a locker room cancer will do...whine like a big baby to the GM in order to get a roster depth move.

 

Shorts III has stepped all over team mates with his mouth. He kept the number one job just long enough to get the snot knocked out of him and he spent weeks in la-la land. Then as the number two, he got the snot knocked out of him again for concussion number two.

 

Shorts III is nothing more than a small school zone-splitting slot receiver. He has no business whining to the coaches. He has more than proven he is incapable of being a number one OR number two wide receiver in the NFL. For most of this year, he's been the number one receiver by default. He is incapable of handling it.

 

The pro game at wide receiver is played in the upright position. Forget about speed. Forget about crafty moves. Players like Shorts III fail because they lack physicality. NFL WRs can't run around the bump and run the way it's possible in college. College does not employ bump and run so even players like Blackmon will have to learn how to play the upright game. Shorts is the wrong kind of football player to play the outside role. 

 

If he wants to whine all day it ain't gonna help him. He's not outside receiver material because NFL DBs hit you and smother you all day long. Yet, put the ball on his body, and Shorts III is gonna get a concussion. Whereas, NFL number one and number two receivers possess the size and body strength to handle the bump and walk away from the upright contact every time unfazed.

 

Shorts needs to shut up and sink back into the slot position.

 

It is what it is...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNNqG13I9U

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