Are the recievers getting open

[gabe1984]

Originally Posted by riggoraider

Although Cooley is a very good receiving "tight end" he is NOT a receiver nor do he possess receiver skills. He is coming off blocks which limits his abilities and does not have receiver speed.

I am a huge Moss fan but in football it is not all about the "deep pass" and we need an intermediate receiver to compliment Moss' deep ball threat or defenses are going to concentrate only on him which is going to take away from some of the big plays that he can possibly make.

Options is the key and at the receiver position we do not have many at this point.

I disagree with what you are saying. Part of the reason why Moss is so dangerous is his ability to turn short catches into big gains; I think we all saw him do it many times last year and even a few time this year. I don't think of him as just a deep ball guy at all. In addition, I also disagree with you when you say that we do not have many options at receiver. I'm really not sure what you mean by that; Moss, ARE, and Lloyd have loads of talent. I don't think we really need to get a big receiver. Moss is strong for his size, he manages to break tackles and get out of situations where it looks like he's going to get tacked a lot. Look at other receiving groups, our receivers are really not that small.
Lloyd- 6 ft. 192lbs
Moss- 5'10 185lbs
ARE - 5'10 192lbs

Marvin Harrison - 6ft 185
Reggie Wayne - 6ft -198

Chad Johnson - 6'1 192lbs
TJ whosyourmama - 6'1 199lbs

So we are a little small, but what they lack in size they make up for in other skills. I am not totally trying to discount having a big receiver, all of KC's receivers were close to 200lb or more, so maybe Saunders is used to working with big guys, and on the Cardinals LJ weighs 226 and Boldin weighs 223, freakin huge. Plus we used to have a big guy at receiver, his name is Rod Gardner, he didn't do much.