Detroit - Trap Game?

Well yes, I agree it’s downhill from there on how they have performed so far, but that doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way. Keep in mind it takes a couple of years for most athletes to play at their ceiling level. With a young team like this, it’s very difficult to tell whether a guy is just ok or near elite (leaving out extremes like bust or star)

When we see a young player get off to a fast start and perform well as a rookie or 2nd year guy, it’s easy to think someone else drafted the same year would/should be playing well too, and if he’s not then he’s just not very talented…. its easy to think they are probably not very talented.

The thing is a lot of high quality players come from rounds 3-7 and they struggle to play just ok for the 1 year, 2, even 3 before you can tell that they are developing into something very valuable. Some guys jump out to great starts, Laurinaitis is a good example, but each guy is on his own track and without being “on the scene” there with the team, it’s very difficult to make judgements about the talent or lack thereof on guys who are only in the 2nd/3rd year.

The large majority of WR’s really don’t do much for the year and a half. Most of the young guys on this board (which of course doesn’t include me and you) would cut a bonafide star WR after 25 or30 games because they would’ve prematurely judged them as busts instead of giving the athlete the time needed to get up to speed.

It’d be a lot easier if they had a few selected young guys surrounded by vets. Unfortunately they have one of the youngest (the youngest?) team in the league, and I would expect that to drag out the devlopment a little more and make it even more “non-linear” than normal.

All I’m saying is young players need time to prove themselves. We have an inordinate amount of them.

60% of our team is players that other teams wouldn’t come looking for? That might be accurate but “come looking for” implies expense. Like a trade or out-bid on contract or whatever.

I think at least 80% of our active roster could play for another NFL team. If he was drated by them, if he was signed and went to camp with them, if they had injuries, there’s a lot of reasons why someone with even a little NFL experience would be picked up by another team.

Going to the UFL is like saying he couldn’t even get on another team’s practice squad, and that’s just not true for the large majority of our active roster guys. Some, yeah, probably.

Keith Null: You were right about some things, yep. We said a lot about Null. I said I thought he could develop into a guy that could play in the league and that he does have some intangibles. His tangibles didn’t impress enough people to get him a job though. If that’s what you mean, yep you were right.

I knew Null was a goner when the new kid Thad played so well. Some guys here on this board were saying Null actually had a couple of scoring drives that salvaged the wins on a game or two and they thought he might be kept. I hope he gets a shot somewhere, but it might be tough because his regular season stats from last year will follow him around like a bad report card.

Take care, ed. Talk to you soon.

number one spot that very second. The fact that a perennially good team dropped him to 4th-5th on their depth chart makes me think that our other guys are just that bad. Well that and their production of course. Name one stud WR that didn’t produce anything for 2-3 years. That’s right it very, very rarely happens. I guess you are talking about our WR’s having POTENTIAL. Potential is a stupid word because they all have/had potential including Ryan Leif and Brian Bozworth. We need production not potential!