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Legedu Naanee on WQAM

I don't think he makes the team. I think the receivers will be Hartline, Bess, Gates, Cunningham and Mathews with the possibility of a UDFA like Fuller,etc to make it.
 
normaldude said:
Legadu Naanee is 6-2, 220 lbs, with 4.41 speed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2007/draft/players/2418.html

http://www.mattrauch.com/2007-nfl-combine-results.php

He was raw coming out of college, but has been improving every year.

Everyone talks about raw athletic WRs Roberto Wallace, Marlon Moore, Clyde Gates possibly turning the corner, but Legadu is actually further along than those guys.
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I've never seen him play so i'm not even sure he makes the team. Decent size and speed and like you say recievers usually take a few years to figure it out. (see Wallace and Moore )
I think a couple of these guys will emerge during training camp and the preseason. Maybe Wallace , Moore or Gates. Maybe this guy or the rookies. He does seem pretty intelligent and that's a good start.
 
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i hope he develops but i saw every carolina game last year (*along with every fins game...we keep two tvs in living room during football season) my roomie whos a panthers fan laughed when we signed him and i just said the dirty f word..........but i hope he pans out
 
I wonder if he plays any special teams. He has the size and speed.
 
normaldude said:
Legadu Naanee is 6-2, 220 lbs, with 4.41 speed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2007/draft/players/2418.html

http://www.mattrauch.com/2007-nfl-combine-results.php

He was raw coming out of college, but has been improving every year.

Everyone talks about raw athletic WRs Roberto Wallace, Marlon Moore, Clyde Gates possibly turning the corner, but Legadu is actually further along than those guys.
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The guy has been in the league for 5 years now, including starting experience. What you see is what you get. I watched quite a few Panthers games last year (watch a lot of other teams play because I gamble and because Cam Newton was fun has hell to watch last year) and he most certainly did not improve over his time in SD. You must be focusing on his total yards and receptions increasing. He had more receptions because the coaching staff was forced to start him more after Gettis was injured. His YAC and average YPG have all dropped.

If it takes over 5 years to get a WR to stop being "raw," then go ahead and get rid of all those names you mentioned right now. I don't think that's the case. It shouldn't take more than a year or two.
 
Gonzo said:
The guy has been in the league for 5 years now, including starting experience. What you see is what you get. I watched quite a few Panthers games last year (watch a lot of other teams play because I gamble and because Cam Newton was fun has hell to watch last year) and he most certainly did not improve over his time in SD. You must be focusing on his total yards and receptions increasing. He had more receptions because the coaching staff was forced to start him more after Gettis was injured. His YAC and average YPG have all dropped.

If it takes over 5 years to get a WR to stop being "raw," then go ahead and get rid of all those names you mentioned right now. I don't think that's the case. It shouldn't take more than a year or two.
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that's why i'm skeptical about wallace and moore and pruitt. How much time do they really need? my only concern is that they might shine in this offense, but then there was a time where we thought all chad henne needs is a real number 1 WR to up his game.
 
Wildbill3 said:
that's why i'm skeptical about wallace and moore and pruitt. How much time do they really need? my only concern is that they might shine in this offense, but then there was a time where we thought all chad henne needs is a real number 1 WR to up his game.
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If none of them produce with this new staff and offense, hopefully we can agree that they're nothing more than camp fodder. I'll give those ones the benefit of the doubt for now simply because the same guy that felt Colombo should be starting week in and week out also made the decisions regarding their playing time. If that doesn't change this year, then they simply are what they are. Naanee on the other hand couldn't step it up when he had Cam Newton breaking records throwing the ball on a team where the talent level at WR after Smith drops dramatically. All he's doing is getting in the way of the younger WRs we have now.

If we're going to have a veteran, I'll take an old Driver or Burress over Naanee every time. At least the rookies can learn some things from Driver.
 
marshallaw said:
I watched him play very little like most people i suspect on the board. I just don't get the impression that this current FO is in the habit of bringing in obviously "Horrible" FA. I'm going to bank on perhaps they see something that most fans don't....Call it blind homerism
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Blind homerism.

As already pointed out, he has sucked his whole career
 
ckparrothead said:
Forget stats and all that. Just watch Legedu play last year.

There's a reason he came in dead last on Pro Football Focus' ratings. I don't always agree with them, but on this one I do. He was open due to combinations of offensive and defensive schemes. He rarely (if ever) did anything with the football that the defense was attempting to take away. The only yards after catch you saw were ones that were given to him by the spacing, not by anything he did that was special. He flubbed passes that ended up in the opposition's hands for interceptions. To me he was the definition of "just a guy". You could sub in in a hundred guys for him and get the same, IMO.

Best I can say about him is that he probably learned his scheme well and knew where to be and when, but that's pretty much it.
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its kind of funny you say that at the end CK, because based on what philbins philosophy is, this may all he may need to do in order to be considered.
 
finfan54 said:
its kind of funny you say that at the end CK, because based on what philbins philosophy is, this may all he may need to do in order to be considered.
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I'd prefer somebody that can do that AND produce. Professional WRs should know where to be and when to be there. That's not really asking a lot at that level.
 
I'll trust you guys that watched him are right. I cann't say I have. The thing that cause me to post was his 44 catches for almost 500 yards. We all like Hartline who had only 36 catches last year. He did have a great YPC and more yards but i figured this guy would be in the mix.

Here's his video

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It's late. Here is a real short.Video of him in SD,

http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d81215da6/Pre-WK-2-Legedu-Naanee-highlights
 
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