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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 818000" data-attributes="member: 10247">Funny I always recalled Freeman as more of the #2 but when I looked at the stats from back then his first 3 years labeled as a starter (1996, 97, 98) he was their leading receiver over Brooks by a fair amount.  For the next three he was neck and neck with Billy Schroeder as far as stats.  For the three years they were the top starters Schroeder had 4 more receptions and 164 more yards.  That's pretty close for 2 WRs over a 3 year stretch.  Usually one is on the way up and one is on the way down.  Also interesting in the last two of those years Ahman Green lead the team in receptions.I said Freeman before and I'll stick with it but I still wouldn't say easily.The old "what have you done' for me lately".  We remember how bad players perform when they made a ton on money but forget how good they were when they were comparatively cheap. Even for the new contract Cobb wasn't awful relative to his cap hit for the first two years (2015, 2016)  Looking at their overall contribution to the Packers without changing anything and saying "I wish we never had them" or "I'm glad we did" I'd say I'm glad we did in both cases.</blockquote>

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