No, I am not REMOTELY saying Duke Williams is on the level of one current 1st ballot HOFer and one future 1st ballot HOFer...
but...
When was the last time Buffalo had AND utilized a well known surehanded AND big bodied WR or TE?
Pete Metzelaars????
I'm talking surehanded in the manner that Gronk's scouting report describes him, which is the description of "consistent hands and plucks the ball." Gonzales was the same player throughout his career.
Is there any more important attribute as a guy who catches the football?
Guys, the Bills have the HIGHEST drop percentage in the NFL through 13 games BY FAR!!!
Has the Bills organization been overvaluing lesser important skillsets over the last 2+ decades?
I feel like off the top of my head I can go through a BUNCH of NFL teams and find guys very recently that fit this category:
Detroit had Megatron
San Diego had Gates
Tampa has Mike Evan's
Pat's had Gronk
Cardinals have Fitz
Cleveland had Gordon (saw Pats and now Seahawks follow)
Bengals have AJ Green
Bears then Eagles had/have Jeffery
Saints have Michael Thomas
Saints then Eagles had/have Jimmy Graham
Chiefs have Kelce (had Gonzalez)
Falcons have Julio (had Gonzalez)
Panthers have Olsen
Honestly, do we have this guy on the roster? I truly think Knox could be that guy if he could learn to catch the damn football, but not right now. Maybe he gets with the jugs machine and wildly improves next year... happened with Gonzalez in the aforementioned show by his own admission.
Truthfully, right now the closest guy we have is Duke Williams, who's inactive every week.
This all just seems like a bad recipe for a team with a young QB who's been repeatedly advertised as "inaccurate."
Again, the Bills have the 2nd highest total number of drops in the NFL but have the highest drop % in the NFL!!!
This has been seemingly a trend with this team as we care about "versatility" and "athleticism"--see Charles Clay. Those are great traits unless they exist without the ability to reliably finish the play.
I hope Knox becomes this guy next year, but he sucks for reliability right now.
Time to activate Duke and start throwing it to him.
Get a true #1 next year, but let's make sure we have all our best options actually active to start utilizing them so we can make some damn noise this year...and it starts Sunday!!!
Spot on. We need sure-handed receivers who won’t kill drives. So frustrating to see the perfect play call blown up by poor execution. Too bad some reader-posters here missed your point.
Why wasn't Duke Williams active?
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Spot on. We need sure-handed receivers who won’t kill drives. So frustrating to see the perfect play call blown up by poor execution. Too bad some reader-posters here missed your point.