Re: Disappointed with Gardner
 

[QUOTE=saden1]i meant 2003-2004.[/QUOTE]

do you mean this past year? In '03 Coles had over 1000

Re: Disappointed with Gardner
 

I wanted Moss at the time of the draft as well, but I really knew nothing about Gardner to make an assesment when we drafted him, I thought Moss was the good's a year before he came out, no doubt he would have been a much better pick than Gardner.

Re: Disappointed with Gardner
 

I wanted Gardner over Moss simply for the fact that I thought a big receiver like Gardner was a much better fit for Schottenheimer's offense than Moss. I thought Rod could be like a WR/TE under Marty for years to come

Re: Disappointed with Gardner
 

Gardner is good and we will be bitting our tounges mark my words. if we had a system that didn't just send 2 recievers on routes and a stable qb who would throw good passes and not make stupid mistakes we'd have the best wr core in the NFL. Early he had a good system around him and he posted good numbers, now our recievers are treated like tightends they are always double covered (corner and safeties over top), but still are expected to make great plays. If we trully want to upgrade the recievers we need to upgrade the playbook. In today's NLF u have to pass just as a well as u run, and this year we could do neither.

Re: Disappointed with Gardner
 

I still don't understand how Coles has 90 catches in the same offense while Gardner only snags 50. And the season before in a pass happy scheme Coles had over 80 catches and Gardner was still in the 50's. I guess we're just missing the boat on this guy. I'm sure he'll go somewhere and become a Pro Bowl player.