Originally Posted by
psuasskicker
NO
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
You just assume that Brown and Sanders just sat around in practice looking as good (bad) as Doss, DWill, Harper, whoever? Do you seriously have no concept of how absolutely wrong that is?
All you need to see is how well all of the receivers the Ravens have drafted have performed after leaving the Ravens. Mark Clayton had the best showing of them, performing well in five games with the Rams before suffering a terrible injury, and now we'll likely never know whether he really could have been something with that team or not. Brandon Stokely had one 1k yard season. In Indi. With Peyton Manning. He also had three others with him that weren't close to as good.
Pretty much every other Ravens draft pick at receiver has either never found another team interested in them, or has flopped on whatever team they went to. That's not an accident. That's not them not getting a shot. That's them sucking so bad, they don't deserve to get on the field!
Guys that get drafted in mid-to-late rounds, come out of nowhere and shock on the field, don't actually come out of nowhere and shock on the field. They show off something at practice that makes a coach say "Hunh, maybe I ought to get that guy on the field and see if he can make some plays in a game."
Because in the NFL, I promise you ... I lock-it-up guarantee you ... not one single coach says "Hunh, I know [receiver X] hasn't really done jack shit in practice, but maybe I should get him about 10-15 snaps next week in a game just to see what he can do."
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