Nope, you are in error. In August during the preseason that year we were strong at receiver I remember it clearly. Hogan was cut despite being a fan favorite because of that depth.We were strong at receiver when we had Hogan? WHAT? We had the worst WR corps entering a season that year that I had ever seen. We had the diminutive though until then productive Davone Bess, a guy who missed all of camp and preseason with an appendectomy after spending two years being by the numbers the least effective no. 2 receiver in the league in Brian Hartline who started by default because there was nobody else and ended up breaking out due to chemistry with Tannehill, and it was all bad, bad from there. Our third receiver entering the year? Legedu Naanee, a guy so bad it took 4 games for him to get his first catch and who was so surprised he promptly tripped over his own feet and fumbled, no joke. Rishard Matthews was a rookie and it took several more years before we trusted him. There was no stable of receivers waiting, we just like a lot of organizations don't take guys like Hogan whose skills are route running and sure hands over athleticism or acrobatics seriously.
Nope, you are in error. In August during the preseason that year we were strong at receiver I remember it clearly. Hogan was cut despite being a fan favorite because of that depth.
I don't believe so since I've been following the preseason's so closely over the last 20 years. You are correct that the regular-season receivers had a poor regular-season. I'm not sure about why, but I vaguely remember a few injuries, etc. Back then I was still subscribe to Dolphin digest and following Hogan that summer, through a few articles, as a come out of nowhere favorite. I clearly remember some fan's being upset over and getting cut but like I mentioned the team did not think he was as far along as the other practice squad receivers. I think that was probably a fair assessment since it took him a few years before getting a field in Buffalo.Clearly you have a different definition of strong that I do. But the guys I listed were THE guys. Including Legedu.
Are you maybe thinking of the next year, when we added Gibson and Wallace via FA, and had guys like Marvin McNutt and Bumphus (sp?) deliver strong camps but still get cut?
Building a team AROUND a slot WR, is nuts.
A better way to say it is, you don't build your offense around a slot WR. Give me the 2nd and the ability to upgrade and fix the oline.
Sorry, but I don't have faith in the people running this organization to make the right draft choices or free agent signings. So you KEEP Landry.
A 2nd? lol I don't even think I'd be okay accepting a 1st for him. Landry might be more important than Tannehill. How many times in the last few games has he caught a pass in the 4th on 3rd down and long where he caught it short of the 1st and took it for the first carrying 3-4 guys to bring him down because he won't stop before he gets the first. Landry needs to spend his career here Idc what he cost. Guy is going to finish with most receptions in NFL history through first four years by 50+ receptions and with 600 more yards will finish top 20 for yardage through first four years. I don't care if he plays slot, he's top 5 effective and that's all that matters.