Quote:This goes to how spoiled we were to start this franchise.  How the heck do you get a true HOF talent at LT and then replace them?  I think that is part of the issue, we snapped at people and propped them up unfairly.  This team has been seriously snake bitten at the WR position for a long time.

 

It is very odd that we repeatedly took projects at WR and questionable character instead of going for solid.  All around the saga of Justin Blackmon is the real tragedy.  That guy had freakish gifts destroyed by substance issues.

Starting off, we were spoiled.

 

I can't say as a fan base, we are spoiled now.

 

Our history of WR is strange.  We started off really lucky to get Jimmy Smith and Keenan McCardell (and to a lesser degree Andre Rison and Willie Jackson).  But we couldn't draft a competent receiver to save our lives.  We stocked up at WR at the bottom of the 1996 draft and got nothing out of that group.  Barlow was a good punt returner, but offered nothing at WR.  In 2000, trying to replicate the Rams, took a chance on R. Jay Soward, and it blew up in our faces.  Reggie Williams and Matt Jones followed and failed afterwards, leading to Justin Blackmon who teased dominance only to self sabotage with substance dependence.  And now we lucked out on Hurns and Lee and Robinson.

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