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Originally Posted by Buster
You guys keep mentioning Harrington...I'd honestly put him ahead of Collins (with a new offensive system) on the depth chart.
Collins is not going to be able to repeat last season's performance if he has to play next season. The only reason he was successful is because he calls those plays in his sleep and knew where the receivers would be before they started moving. New offense, he loses his comfort level and effectiveness.
Of course, he proved me wrong last year, but him in a new offense is not a good idea.
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I think people seriously underestimate Collins.
The transition to this new system shouldn't be too hard for him. First off he's a very sharp guy. Second, a WCO system would seem to be a perfect fit for his skill set. Third, he does have some WCO experience from earlier in his career prior to Saunders arriving in KC.
There's this myth that he's only played under Saunders for some reason, but he started off in Buffalo in a different system and he was in KC before Saunders got there.
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Link: Todd Collins Is Back, And Happy About It - Redskins Insider
Collins, 36, has long been linked to former associate head coach Al Saunders, but said he had two years in the West Coast offense run by Zorn prior to Saunders's arrival in Kansas City. He's not as well versed in that offense as he is in Saunders's, but Collins is super-smart - for real, dude is big-time smart - and he'll catch on quickly.
"The terminology will be a little bit different," Collins said, "but I have some experience with the terminology. Before Al and Dick (Vermeil) came to KC for two years I was there in the same type of system we're running now, with the same language. So I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the plays and protections, and you hear all the time that a lot of the plays being run around the league are pretty similar, they just call them different thing. I don't think I'll have a hard time grasping it all."
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