It's been tough for the kid to be honest. He came into camp "overweight" (and by that, I mean Sean Payton wanted him like 10 lbs. less than what he was) which was blown out of proportion. And, then he had to have a clean-up operation from some tissue from a injury in his knee (occurred during his career as a Vol.) which caused him to miss OTA's. Training camp he's been hot and cold... from the reports I've heard, you can visibility tell that he has so much going on in his brain right now (Payton's offense is probably one of the most complicated ones in the league) and rather than just playing with instincts he's thinking too much. Not to mention that the game against Buffalo, Palko almost got him completely killed on two passes.. one which he got lit up on. However, he did catch a damn good TD in the endzone on a fade in that game too. He hasn't been playing with the first team at all this preseason so when he IS making good routes or something, he's usually fighting to catch bad thrown balls from Fife, Martin, Palko, or Baker.
So, I guess.. you can see the potential but he's thinking too hard right now. The great thing for him is he doesn't HAVE to contribute right now to our team... he has Colston/Henderson/Patten/Copper all ahead of him so he can come along slowly. So, hopefully once that light goes off and he can just start playing he can bring that element to our offense of big plays, huge YACs after a catch, and a great endzone threat.
08-18-2007, 11:02 PM
