Brandon LaFell IS the Answer at Wide Receiver

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(03-27-2017, 10:27 AM)Beaker Wrote: I think LaFell did fine for us, and did post similar numbers to Marvin Jones as a #2 WR. But the difference was that Jones was a deep threat and had a different effect on how defenses had to account for him. LaFell does not have the speed that Jones had, and is therefore more of a possession type WR, not a defense buster. Marvin Jones disrupted defenses, LaFell does not. We do have another WR with speed in Cody Core,, the coaches just haven't put him in enough as he is gaining experience to provide that deep threat we are lacking beyond AJ right now.

I don't think the defense played any different with Jones at the #2 than they did with LaFell.  Teams give the help to AJ no matter who our #2 WR is.  So the only difference is which player is better able to exploit the single coverage.

LaFell and Jones seemed to do about the same to me.