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I'm not concerned about guys "making plays". I'm concerned about guys catch the football. Devin Thomas was tall but he was a crap red zone target because he was a crappy route runner.

Calvin Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Andre Johnson, Brandon Marshall, and Dallas' receivers aren't good because they're tall, they're good because they're great receivers. Being tall HELPS, but it is not the determining factor in red zone success. Quick quarterback decision making is. A short guy is just as likely to make a play as a big guy in the red zone if the quarterback knows where to go with the ball.

Again, two nice red zone guys are Cooley and Davis, but there were more than a couple times where, despite being open, and despite being big targets, McNabb flat out missed them. So it really falls on the quarterback to make it happen with whatever weapons he has.

Not that I don't like big, tall wide receivers, but I don't also buy the "taller guys are easier to find" argument, especially if a guy comes open. Most wide receivers are going to be as tall if not slightly taller than most DB's in the league. And like I said, I think most of the tall receiver fetish from the Redskins' fan standpoint is that people feel as though we haven't had any of those guys.

We have had those guys before, but they were all either lazy, weren't good as running their routes, or their only defining attribute was being kinda tall and that was it. It's the execution that makes Andre Johnson a frakkin' beast, not his height.