Redskins have dinner with WR Troy Williamson

[jrocx69]

Originally Posted by shallyshal

IMHO taking this fellow at #9 would be way too high. he reminds me some of ashley lelie, the denver wideout. he has turned into a fine wideout, but it has taken him the better part of 2 years to get there. taking him that high in this draft is foolish because he will not be productive for this team next year. much better to take a wideout a bit later in the draft. there will be guys in rounds 3-4 who could help us just as much as this guy will next year.

besides, i would far prefer to grab someone like givens, who will be a free agent after this year if the pats do not resign him. with all the depth they have at wideout (branch, patton, troy brown, bethel johnson and givens) someone of quality is going to get released. patton is cheap. brown can play corner and returns for them. branch has amazing speed as does bethel johnson. givens could be the odd man out. if so, someone is going to get a bigtime receiver. did you all hear this stat on him?? in his entire college/pro career he has NEVER lost a fumble. that has joe gibbs written all over it.

while we are at it, the only receiver i could see the skins taking at #9 would be mike williams. that is a guy who WILL be productive next year.

your not understanding the purpose of having this guy... he will be great for stretching the D, with 4.3 speed and good hands, rookie or not, the D will have to pay attention to him. meaning the FS is gonna slide over and play deep. and thats great, we made more of an opening for portis... get it? no one respected our wr's last year, and no one will this year... we need that caliber player to help us out with that (and gibbs calling more deep routes). Stretching the opposing D is what portis needs. you just dont see alot of speed and hands combination unless they are drafted in round 1. so anyway, i love the idea, yet i still want a DE. we pass them up every year and go to the FA market. WE NEED TO GROOM OUR OWN DAMN DE. AND I LOVE POLLACK OR JUSTIN TUCK. they can really make a difference for us against mcnabb for two games and we play atlanta next year as well, which i think would help considerably vs vick

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Originally Posted by jrocx69

your not understanding the purpose of having this guy... he will be great for stretching the D, with 4.3 speed and good hands, rookie or not, the D will have to pay attention to him. meaning the FS is gonna slide over and play deep. and thats great, we made more of an opening for portis... get it? no one respected our wr's last year, and no one will this year... we need that caliber player to help us out with that (and gibbs calling more deep routes). Stretching the opposing D is what portis needs. you just dont see alot of speed and hands combination unless they are drafted in round 1.

I have to agree with that. Having a speedster will help with stretching the d. Short passing routes and the running game will be more productive. Think of how many tackles Shawn Taylor made against the run last year. He did it because he didn't have to play deep very often (thanks to our corners). We need to take opposing safteys away from the line of scrimmage.
Imagine... Coles, Williamson, Jacobs, Thrash in a 4 receiver set. Now send them deep and pass to Portis (with a step) one on one against an LB. Talk about room to run....