I Miss Marvin Jones.

[Shake n Blake]

(11-24-2017, 07:45 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yeah, but if I had to decide between an $8m/yr Mehvin Jones (see what I did there?) and a $10.5m/yr Dre Kirkpatrick, I sure know which one I would have picked.

Even more so because anyone not named AJ Green at WR is basically a non-factor and Kirkpatrick is (predictably) right back to being awful after getting paid.

Maybe they wouldn't have had to waste the #9 overall on Ross if they had a solid #2 like Marvin Jones. Plus they probably wouldn't have been wasting $5m on Brandon LaFell (who finally broke into double digit AVG last week with a now even 10.0).

Well when you put it that way...I'd probably trade Kirkpatrick and his contract for MLJ. 

(11-24-2017, 11:42 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Not really, anymore. There's 7 WRs making $13m/yr+, 3 making $15m/yr+.

There's some guys still on rookie contracts, there's a couple guys on 1 year prove-it deals, and a couple more who are vets making less money now.

But there's still 15 WRs making at least $10m/yr right now. (And there's not really 32 #1 WRs in the NFL, even if there technically has to be.)

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Ross, Core, and Malone COULD all be this player, but sadly their lacks of ability or football skills prevents them from being so. Just like Binns, Whalen, Tate, Wright, Hamilton, Sanu, Briscoe, and every other of the many Bengals WRs who never lived up to the hype because they simply weren't very good.

Damn I wish we still had the old boards so we could dig up some threads in the 2012 offseason about how hyped some people were about the AJ Green/Armon Binns duo.

Mehvin Jones has the 21st highest salary this year at WR. That's #1 money.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/wide-receiver/

I disagree on there not being 32 #1 WR's. Sure, a very small handful of teams are missing a legit #1, but other teams have a pair of guys that could be a #1. The Raiders with Cooper/Crabtree. The Bucs with DJax/Mike Evans. Texans with Hopkins/Fuller, and even the Ravens with Maclin/Wallace (although Flacco is hurting their numbers).