Cody Core???

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(10-04-2017, 10:48 PM)Whatever Wrote: LaFell is a lot better with contested catches than Core.  He was also way more productive last year than Core.  Normally, that wouldn't be a great argument, but when the crux of the discussion is that Core should get more opportunities based on one game last year, it's fair to point out that LaFell outperformed him by a ridiculously wide margin over the course of 16 games.  

For all the minicamp hype for Core, he still didn't produce in preseason and he has gone 4 games without a catch.  It's eerily similar to the annual Jake Kumerow feel good stories that made him out to the second coming of Jerry Rice.  The staff has so little faith in him that they took WR's in the 1st and 4th, as well as resigning LaFell.

In Core's situation, it's not like he's not gotten opportunities, like Malone.  He's gotten plays and produced nothing.  If he'd actually done something with his limited PT, I'd be on board with giving him more snaps, but he's done Jack squat.  Boyd's done more.  Erickson has done more.  Malone hasn't even gotten an opportunity.  If we're talking giving one of the youngsters more snaps, the last guy it should be is Core.

He's gotten opportunities?  Like the two deep passes in the opener (where he was open).  He dropped the one (think he was interfered with, but would never get that call) but he should have still had it, and Andy overshot him on the other.  He was open in both.  I don't remember seeing many snaps since that game.

It is Lafell that has gotten LOTS of opportunities and done very little with it.  But, hey, folks here remember a couple plays (our of over 100 snaps) where he was open so lets keep trotting his slow ass out there and not change anything.  Really seems to be working.