In Reply to: Re: But how do you compare them, in terms of quality posted by Starbucks on January 08, 2025 at 17:50:27
Season stats aside, it wasn't his fault that the coaches didn't play him much at all for the first half of the season, when his number was called he often delivered. Not the most physically gifted, but is a very savvy route runner who has a knack for getting open and is pretty sure handed. Along with Titus and Kwazi, he was easily among our top 3 WRs and a good guy to have in the locker room to help mentor younger guys.
I for one was never sold on Harden. He has the most un-natural un-orthodox, and completely awkward gait of any RB I have ever seen. It's like he is taking these little baby steps even he's running at full speed, and he's never been one of those cats where they look like thay are running slow but are actually gaining on everyone. Occasionally, he hit the hole with enough quickness and power to make me wonder why he didn't always get off the ball and accelerate like that, but most of the time he just seemed to be wallowing in first gear, running into the backs of is Oline or the arms of defenders when there was a hole the next gap over.
JMS is a talented kid who was absolutely right to transfer. It just never really seemed to click with him, and except for a couple of outlying games, he just seemed to disappear when he put on a UCLA uniform.
Prongos proved to be useful when he was inserted into the lineup and there was reason to believe he might develop into a competent player with hopefully improved OLine coaching next year. The coaching couldn't get any worse.
That said, the 2 WRs we brought in did very little to get excited about and most of the Oline guys are veterans that weren't playing much at all at their previous stops. So the expectation is apparently that another team's scrubs are going to blossom under the coaching they receive at UCLA which is a perhaps a very large stretch of the imagination