Do you miss Winslow?

[medicineman]

No the only thing k2 cared about was his own stats.

[WPB Dawg Fan]

I don't miss him...but for specific reasons.

He was a great pass catcher...but that was it. That was his game. Due to his injuries he couldn't/wouldn't be asked to block...so you automatically reduced the pass protection and run blocking by having him in the game.

Rucker is a pass catcher...but he is young and healthy and even if he doesn't ever attain the level of catching ability of Winslow...he will have the added benefit of learning to block....which will increase the effectiveness of the running game and allow more time to throw to our WR's and RB's coming out of the backfield...and to run some plays that take longer to develop.

Royale and Heiden are excellent blockers who can keep our QB's clean and break our RB's free on the outside edge. Both are also decent WR's....so if you try and cover them with LB's...they can feast on the middle of the field. Besides which...you will never know if they are staying in or doing a late release...which will prevent LB's from coming on blitzes.

Basically, by eliminating a one dimensional (yeah, great, but still one dimensional) weapon from our offense, you have actually added by subtraction.

I love the move. It allows us to run a 2 TE set where you have NO IDEA what TE (1, both, neither) will come out into a route. Keep the defense guessing and/or burn them when they do.

[Kosar_For_President]

Yea right, he's missed. Later.

Royal can block, finally!

[Koa]

Not that I disliked Winslow, but considering the personnel we acquired because of that trade, I'm over the short honeymoon. Top that with a younger, healthier, and comparable TE in Rucker I sincerely think Winslow shouldn't be missed at this point.

[Farang]

I don't miss Winslow but I miss President Bush. Sure was nice when people had jobs.

[Koa]

@farang said:

I don't miss Winslow but I miss President Bush. Sure was nice when people had jobs.

Definitely was going to make fun of this post and instead of "Reply" I hit "Thank"

F*ck me

[Farang]

@koa said:

Definitely was going to make fun of this post and instead of "Reply" I hit "Thank"

F*ck me

Thanks for the thanks Koa.

[hammertime]

I miss Lou Groza and Jim Brown. Kellen Winslow i miss like a VD.

[choco]

@farang said:

I don't miss Winslow but I miss President Bush. Sure was nice when people had jobs.

i miss bush as well.....daily show isn't quite the same without the great bumbler....

[The Gipper]

Obviously, it is way to early to tell if we will miss K2 or not. Give it until about a third of the way into the season to see how Rucker, Royal, Heiden etc. perform. Then and only then could we tell if we missed him.

FYI, last year after Joe J. got hurt this team desperately missed him, for sure. So the jury is out on K2.

[The Gipper]

@farang said:

I don't miss Winslow but I miss President Bush. Sure was nice when people had jobs.

You have to go back to Clinton for that feeling.