Thank you for telling me what I said. (I have myself blocked and thus could not see it!) :P
I think using Devin Hester as a WR ruins him as a returner. I think he should be on kick/punt returns only with a sprinkle of a special play here and there on offense.
I haven't seen enough of Randall Cobb to say he's as much of a dual or triple threat as I have with Percy Harvin. Harvin has speed Cobb just doesn't have.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
Well, I suppose if I had thought about it for a minute, I would have realized you would find that remark horribly offensive and personally insulting. I guess I could have amended it to, "Since you said..."
But that is a whole lot of work, typing that extra word. Not to mention all that extra time consumed by the thinking ahead. 🤔
For the money they pay Hester, they could go out and get a decent WR who can produce as much just playing WR. And they could get a rookie or UDFA for returns. I am sure you could give up 3 returns for TDs and the 2 TD Hester puts up in the passing game for a WR that can put up 10 in a year.
By getting some rooking to return kicks, you wouldn't be giving all 1000 return yards Hester puts up yearly. You would just give up the difference between Hester and an average returner. Which is only about a couple hundred yards a year. Because an average return guy should put up over 600 yards in kick returns and 200 in punt returns. Even if they don't score in the return game, having a real WR would more than make up for it.
Return guys are just not on the field enough to pay them that much. Hester would never make the team as a WR for the $7.5 mil a year he makes.
As great as he is, he isn't actually helping the team all that much. When you have 90ish catches/returns 1400 combined yards and 5 tds.
When you could have a Good WR with 80ish catches 1000-1200 yards and 10+ TDs and an average returner with probably 60 returns with 800 or so yards and no TDs.
I want to go out like my Grandpa did. Peacefully in his sleep.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers.