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SBXVII · 12-30-2008, 11:45 AM

I'll also add that we have had a couple of WR's that have were supposed to be washed up or primidana's who have gone on to other teams and produced....ie; Patten having gone to the Saints and Lloyd having gone to the Bears. Lloyd had this year...26 rec. for 364 yrds and 2 td's that more then he had with us. Not great production but production none the less. Same with Patten. Oh, and look at Coles. He produced some good numbers with the Jets comes to us does not too shabby then Gibbs trades him back to the Jets for Moss and Coles is their leading WR becoming a scoring machine.

I would think it would be the coach's responsibility to teach route running especially to new WR's just out of college trying to learn the NFL speed.

I'm not saying it's totally Hixons fault that our team sucked mid way through the season. What I'm saying is I have not seen production from a unit in 5 yrs. It remained constant and has not grown. Yes we have short WR for those yrs so you develope plays around that. Curls, Slants besides screan plays every other play. Come backs would have worked also. Our come backs were 2 yrds when we needed 5. Obviously a WR/HC issue.

Let me ask you ...if a RB is not running the right routes all year and they get rid of him and bring in a new RB and he is not running right routes who's fault is it? Who gets let go then? I guess it should be HC, QB or OC right. Wait I forgot management....Cerratto.

12-30-2008, 11:45 AM	#41
SBXVII Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 7,766	Re: Stan Hixon I'll also add that we have had a couple of WR's that have were supposed to be washed up or primidana's who have gone on to other teams and produced....ie; Patten having gone to the Saints and Lloyd having gone to the Bears. Lloyd had this year...26 rec. for 364 yrds and 2 td's that more then he had with us. Not great production but production none the less. Same with Patten. Oh, and look at Coles. He produced some good numbers with the Jets comes to us does not too shabby then Gibbs trades him back to the Jets for Moss and Coles is their leading WR becoming a scoring machine. I would think it would be the coach's responsibility to teach route running especially to new WR's just out of college trying to learn the NFL speed. I'm not saying it's totally Hixons fault that our team sucked mid way through the season. What I'm saying is I have not seen production from a unit in 5 yrs. It remained constant and has not grown. Yes we have short WR for those yrs so you develope plays around that. Curls, Slants besides screan plays every other play. Come backs would have worked also. Our come backs were 2 yrds when we needed 5. Obviously a WR/HC issue. Let me ask you ...if a RB is not running the right routes all year and they get rid of him and bring in a new RB and he is not running right routes who's fault is it? Who gets let go then? I guess it should be HC, QB or OC right. Wait I forgot management....Cerratto.