Create Account

Jacksonville Jaguars Fan Forums The Gridiron The Home Team Have To Keep One: Nick Marshall or Corey Grant?


The Jungle is self-supported by showing advertisements via Google Adsense.
Please consider disabling your advertisement-blocking plugin on the Jungle to help support the site and let us grow!
We also show significantly less advertisements to registered users, so create your account to benefit from this!
Questions or concerns about this ad? Take a screenshot and comment in the thread. We do value your feedback.
Poll: Who would you keep on the roster?
Nick Marshall
Corey Grant
[Show Results]
 
 
Have To Keep One: Nick Marshall or Corey Grant?

  • Offline Jags02
    Gone Not Forgotten

  • ******
  • Posts: 11,946
    Threads: 317
    Joined: Oct 2013
    Reputation: 90
#19
08-25-2016, 08:56 PM

Let's look at this a little deeper. That is, who is truly more valuable to this team.


 

Now it's not so much just a question of speed. Yeah, Corey IS the fastest player on the team, but Nick Marshall is probably #2. Heck, he might even be just as fast. We're talking here about world class speed, which only a handful of players at any given time possess. So if it's just a question of speed, you tell yourself CB is more valuable than RB and you keep Marshall. But not so fast. You see, Marshall is buried deep on the depth chart at CB.... so deep that when Colvin returns they'll probably have to waive him due to the roster numbers game that all NFL teams must play. Moreover, he may find himself inactive for much of the season, and you can see on his returns that despite being fast, he doesn't have Corey's vision and natural instincts to truly break out.


 

Here's the thing...


 

I'm not looking at Corey Grant and saying he's the next Fred Taylor. I realize he doesn't have the flashy moves and agile cutting ability that starting RBs use to create holes where they might not otherwise exist, and this is what you guys mean when you say "he's not a real RB." But we're not asking Corey to start. We're asking him to play a role... a very key role as a KR and scat back where he should be active most weeks.


 

We've already seen on returns that Corey consistently picks up good yards, and that he can break out with the sllghtest coverage breakdown. Is he one of the best KRs in the league? Hardly, but he's a good one. You don't see Corey dancing around in the backfield or trying to run around coverage. Rather he fields the ball and takes off downfield in a hurry. I can't tell you how often I yell at the screen for returners to do that instead of running around and losing yards or getting nowhere. Corey gets his yards.


 

That said, it's as a RB that I'm so excited about Corey. You see, as a scat back they'll put him in special situations... gimmick plays if you will... where he'll get a chance to put his speed to good use. Yeah, you actually have to give Corey a hole to run through. I understand that. But with said hole, you never know where he'll end up. I see him scamper for 6 or 7 yards like it's nothing, and if a defender is late closing his gap, he could go for 80. It's that potential for breakout that has me so excited. He may only get like 5 carries tops in a game, and he probably gets 5 to 10 yards on a couple, and is stuffed on a couple, but that 5th carry is a TD. This is a huge asset for the team compared to a dime corner clinging to his roster spot by a thread and rarely seeing the field.


'02
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Have To Keep One: Nick Marshall or Corey Grant? - by Jags02 - 08-25-2016, 08:56 PM



Users browsing this thread:

The Jungle is self-supported by showing advertisements via Google Adsense.
Please consider disabling your advertisement-blocking plugin on the Jungle to help support the site and let us grow!
We also show less advertisements to registered users, so create your account to benefit from this!
Questions or concerns about this ad? Take a screenshot and comment in the thread. We do value your feedback.

Forum software by © MyBB - Theme © iAndrew 2017

ABOUT US
The Jungle Forums is the Jaguars' biggest fan message board. Talking about the Jags since 2006, the Jungle was the team-endorsed home of all things Jaguars.

Since 2017, the Jungle is now independent of the team but still run by the same crew. We are here to support and discuss all things Jaguars and all things Duval!