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The question about Roscoe in my mind is, do the Bills need a 3rd down slot WR/punt returner more than they do an OT/OC or DT?

 

We have huge holes to fill at OLT and DT due to FA losses and the possibility this might be Sam Adams last year. Specialty players are a nice luxury, but championships are won in the trenches, IMO.

 

I can't see Roscoe ever being more than a slot receiver, which limits the number of opportunities he'll have to touch the ball, especially if we're going to have a "smash mouth" run-oriented offense.

 

I've come back "off the ledge" a bit since the pick, but the onus is really on TD & TM with this selection. We need some O-line help with our next pick, IMO.

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I posted the same question in like 3 threads. The onyl thing i can tihnk of is that we're gonna run a MUCH more open offense this year and use parish like the Steelers used Randle El.

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  ndirish1978 said:
I posted the same question in like 3 threads. The onyl thing i can tihnk of is that we're gonna run a MUCH more open offense this year and use parish like the Steelers used Randle El.

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Or we can use him the way we used Don Beebe. Stretch the field, open things up for Moulds and Evans (the way Beebe did for Reed and Lofton), and provide a three-wide attack that takes the pressure off McGahee (the way those guys did for Thurman). Just a thought.

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  Sound_n_Fury said:
I can't see Roscoe ever being more than a slot receiver, which limits the number of opportunities he'll have to touch the ball, especially if we're going to have a "smash mouth" run-oriented offense.

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Having 3 good receivers doesn't mean you can't be smash mouth. I seem to remember the Bills having success at one time running the ball in a 3 WR formation.

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  BRH said:
Or we can use him the way we used Don Beebe.  Stretch the field, open things up for Moulds and Evans (the way Beebe did for Reed and Lofton), and provide a three-wide attack that takes the pressure off McGahee (the way those guys did for Thurman).  Just a thought.

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He's got to catch a few passes for people to pay attention to him. If the QB doesn't have time to get tit to him, then people will ignore him.

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  BRH said:
Or we can use him the way we used Don Beebe.  Stretch the field, open things up for Moulds and Evans (the way Beebe did for Reed and Lofton), and provide a three-wide attack that takes the pressure off McGahee (the way those guys did for Thurman).  Just a thought.

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I'm trying to get a handle on MM's offensive philosophy...is it smash mouth or gimickry? WM seems more like a power back than Thurman ever was, so I'd rather have 5 massive wide-bodies blocking for him than run a lot of 3-WR sets (especially if the slot WR is a smurf who'll never provide any down field blocking).

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  Sound_n_Fury said:
The question about Roscoe in my mind is, do the Bills need a 3rd down slot WR/punt returner more than they do an OT/OC or DT?

 

We have huge holes to fill at OLT and DT due to FA losses and the possibility this might be Sam Adams last year.  Specialty players are a nice luxury, but championships are won in the trenches, IMO. 

 

I can't see Roscoe ever being more than a slot receiver, which limits the number of opportunities he'll have to touch the ball, especially if we're going to have a "smash mouth" run-oriented offense.

 

I've come back "off the ledge" a bit since the pick, but the onus is really on TD & TM with this selection.  We need some O-line help with our next pick, IMO.

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Josh Reed's 2004 stats: 12 gms 16 rec 153 yrds 9.6/rec o tds

 

I'd say we need help in the 3rd receiver slot.

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  Crows57 said:
Having 3 good receivers doesn't mean you can't be smash mouth.  I seem to remember the Bills having success at one time running the ball in a 3 WR formation.

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A lot of Thurmans' success was on draws out of the shotgun set. If that's what our offense is going to look like, then this pick may make some sense...

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