This may also help out guys like Snead and Lasley, who should see less coverage when Brown is there on the field if he lives up to the promise. With Lasley's speed, that could pay some nice dividends if Hurst & Andrews are the real deal. Our offense could be legit devastating if that all works out if Lamar is ready. Let's just shore up that IOL and be ready to go.
yeah, its exciting, the more i think about it the more i like the pick, i let those concerns cloud my judgement too much, looking at what he can do rather than what he cant... and i also have a different perspective on why hes a fit, when yesterday i said he wasnt a fit, and heres why...
aside from the obvious Xs and Os part where you need that blue chip burner to keep a max of 7 in the box, and aside from lamars best throw being the slant and wanting a guy who will not only separate on slants but also take them to the house, the main reason i consider him a fit is because lamar is bad at throwing deep, he struggles with combining hangtime and placement, and when you really think about it, a big body jumpball receiver may have a bigger catch radius from where they stand, but on the deep ball marquise brown has the biggest catch radius in this class and its not close, because you can toss it 60+ anywhere on the field and he can and will get to it, just throw as far away from the nearest safety as possible and let him field it. lamar throwing deep to a contested catch type of guy is a disaster waiting to happen, because you need placement and you gotta hit the receiver with timing, but something lamar does pretty damn well that ive notice is spot-throwing, so it makes sense that when your qb who will likely struggle to hit a deep receiver on the mark with timing and touch, can just spot throw to a burner instead.
this never worked with flacco because torrey was so damn average at getting off press and locating the ball, and perriman was perriman, but most importantly we had NO RUN GAME for years and no OL to pass protect either, nothing gelled. with our current run offense teams will fear the ground game enough to allow lamar to just toss punts up there like flacco used to, but now theres 2+ fewer DBs out there to contest them and a blue chip burner and deep ball tracker to execute it.
