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Jeremiah Payton

Mel Bernstein said:
A few thoughts:

- Payton will quickly surpass the other WRs
- I love who Harley is as a person, but he needs to be on the field less
- Jeff Thomas is an idiot for leaving early
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Yeah pretty sure Diaz didn’t try too hard to keep Thomas. Or even try for that matter.
 
BeastMode said:
no don’t say that. @brock told me Harley is elite and just wasn’t playing in the right offenses before. Said Harley was going to dominate in Lashlees offense and has NFL talent haha
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Never said Harley was elite or than he would dominate in the offense. Find those exact quoted from me. I said He should do well, he theoretically could. We’ve only played 2 games in a new system and due to COVID restrictions of course the passing game chemistry wouldn’t be exactly crisp week 1/2
 
rok said:
Gotta make this play

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It hit him in the face.. gotta come down with that
 
Need to get Payton and Redding on the field at the same time. They look like grown men, Pope can be much better from the slot but it makes me cringe how much he avoids contact, he’s never looked fluid to me or maybe he’s just always going 3/4 speed/effort.
 
ScubaCane said:
Never been a big fan of Harley, just don't think he gives you enough after the catch, absolutely no wiggle. His drop TD last week was unforgiveable.
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He’s average. At best. Sounds like a great kid, hard worker, etc. but just not what I thought he’d be
 
RC26 said:
Need to get Payton and Redding on the field at the same time. They look like grown men, Pope can be much better from the slot but it makes me cringe how much he avoids contact, he’s never looked fluid to me or maybe he’s just always going 3/4 speed/effort.
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Payton is going to eventually be one of the three starting WR’s. Redding certainly looks the part
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I'd like to have him, but people forget that we took 4 WRs that year (and the lowest rated was Dee Wiggins). It's like when people complain about "missing" on Santonio Holmes, when we took 4 WRs that year (and the lowest rated was Sinorice Moss).

PuPu is a dynamic player though.
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In that class, we went to Central Florida (by way of California) for Hightower and Georgia for Ezzard.

I won't second guess Pope and Wiggins, because they were South Florida kids (both of which were takes in any year), but this blends into the discussion with D$'s thread on the recruiting board about going to "small towns" for players...Hightower and Ezzard aren't small town kids by any means, but why are we going to Atlanta and California for wide receivers? Sure, you can find players anywhere, but why? We basically took an Atwell type of WR a year prior in Mike Harley (I mention this for those that will eventually say Atwell was too small, etc).

And its not like Atwell was some diamond in the rough, either. Dude was a staple at one of the biggest schools in the county...we took a similar player in Roscoe Parrish, who had a similar makeup (QB in HS, etc)...so how do we miss so badly on Tutu Atwell...we shouldn't miss on these players, IMO, and I don't think its always revisionist to say so.

Even as fans...would anyone have criticized Miami taking local QB to WR convert Tutu Atwell over Marquez Ezzard?
 
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