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<blockquote data-quote="OldSchool101" data-source="post: 1065375" data-attributes="member: 10086"><p>Yes. However dug a little deeper and what you’ll also notice is several of that list only did it sparingly.</p><p></p><p>Mark Lee returned 66 punts and Kickoffs across a 12 year career. That’s 5 returns per season. He really was never a permanent solution outside of 1 season for either PR/KR</p><p></p><p>Woodson was only a PR.. he didn’t return Kickoffs. Plus he only was a PR for 2 of his 5 seasons in GB and across 17 seasons he only returned more than 4 punts in 2 of those seasons 2/17</p><p></p><p>Antonio Freeman played PR in 1 of 9 seasons. In the other 8 seasons he never returned more than 2 punts</p><p>1/9</p><p></p><p>Cobby was regular in his 1st 2 seasons. Past that he never had a season returning more than 14 Punts across a season. The next closest was 7 PR in season 4. Past 2014 he was nothing more than spot duty.</p><p></p><p>There’s a theme here. Walker they’d tried that PR in his Rookie season only. The second we realized what we had, he never played that role again across the next 7 years.</p><p>1/8</p><p></p><p></p><p>There’s nothing wrong with a Starter fielding Punts or Kickoffs in general, that’s never been my argument at all. There are seasons it’s even out of pure necessity, I get that. Thats not this season though we have a Bonafide Return guy and he’s fighting his tail off to earn a spot. It could be a much worse problem than deciding on Hardman to assume that role.</p><p> </p><p>Nixons was our natural solution but he proved to be too darn good at CB, the guy can ball. We can’t get stuck in our past comfort zone, great teams evolve. Nixon now has more value as a starting Perimeter CB while covering WR1 or WR2 that’s like a gift wrapped and tied with a Bow Its not a bad problem its a good problem we have if we play our cards right. 2025 presents an issue in CB depth and we don’t have much known quantity depth at outside Corner. At least nobody I’d hang my hat on.</p><p></p><p>That’s my argument for keeping a Pure Return guy at WR. It’s not as much as I’m in love with Mecole as I’m in love with his profile fits perfect in that role at a time that’s it a need. Truthfully he reminds me a little of the move we made in 1996 with Desmond. Both drafted high. Both talented in their narrow scope. Both natural Return specialists who possess true breakaway speed and good vision. Both have some swagger. I mean maybe Howard is a little better Dancer, but who cares I’ll show up and do the robot for everyone if he scores I’m kinda geeky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OldSchool101, post: 1065375, member: 10086"] Yes. However dug a little deeper and what you’ll also notice is several of that list only did it sparingly. Mark Lee returned 66 punts and Kickoffs across a 12 year career. That’s 5 returns per season. He really was never a permanent solution outside of 1 season for either PR/KR Woodson was only a PR.. he didn’t return Kickoffs. Plus he only was a PR for 2 of his 5 seasons in GB and across 17 seasons he only returned more than 4 punts in 2 of those seasons 2/17 Antonio Freeman played PR in 1 of 9 seasons. In the other 8 seasons he never returned more than 2 punts 1/9 Cobby was regular in his 1st 2 seasons. Past that he never had a season returning more than 14 Punts across a season. The next closest was 7 PR in season 4. Past 2014 he was nothing more than spot duty. There’s a theme here. Walker they’d tried that PR in his Rookie season only. The second we realized what we had, he never played that role again across the next 7 years. 1/8 There’s nothing wrong with a Starter fielding Punts or Kickoffs in general, that’s never been my argument at all. There are seasons it’s even out of pure necessity, I get that. Thats not this season though we have a Bonafide Return guy and he’s fighting his tail off to earn a spot. It could be a much worse problem than deciding on Hardman to assume that role. Nixons was our natural solution but he proved to be too darn good at CB, the guy can ball. We can’t get stuck in our past comfort zone, great teams evolve. Nixon now has more value as a starting Perimeter CB while covering WR1 or WR2 that’s like a gift wrapped and tied with a Bow Its not a bad problem its a good problem we have if we play our cards right. 2025 presents an issue in CB depth and we don’t have much known quantity depth at outside Corner. At least nobody I’d hang my hat on. That’s my argument for keeping a Pure Return guy at WR. It’s not as much as I’m in love with Mecole as I’m in love with his profile fits perfect in that role at a time that’s it a need. Truthfully he reminds me a little of the move we made in 1996 with Desmond. Both drafted high. Both talented in their narrow scope. Both natural Return specialists who possess true breakaway speed and good vision. Both have some swagger. I mean maybe Howard is a little better Dancer, but who cares I’ll show up and do the robot for everyone if he scores I’m kinda geeky [/QUOTE]
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