Hah, Im reading all this about Lions winning The NFC North....Harrington won't do good this year, I have my word on it, Garcia is old and isn't as mobile and accurate as he used to be. The only real threat they have on O is Kevin Jones, as Lions have no real impressive QB right now. Did you see Burleson's performance against the Chargers? And he only played one half, and hate to say it, but he won't be as good as Moss.Not to downgrade Moss but he was mostly a deep threat, he won't provide the middle field threat that Burleson and Taylor will and maybe Williamson. These are two recievers that will be able to spread all around the field. Moss would go over the middle but he was mostly a deep threat on the outside.
Last time I checked, Drew Brees sucked until he finally got a decent offense to run last season. Alot of the times, a quarterback is only as good as the players around him and when you are playing with Bill Schraeder and Az Hakim as some of your targets you are not going to do well. Even Tom Brady couldnt play with those recievers. Harrington doesnt need to be great, but he needs to be decent. And I think he is more then capable of that in an offense with Kevin Jones, Roy Williams, Charles Rogers, Mike Williams, Marcus Pollard, ect. But if for some reason Harrington cant get the job done, then Jeff Garcia will be back in there. Considering his recieving core was an injured Kellen Winslow, Andre Davis, Antonio Bryant, ect and 2 mediocre/bad runningbacks with no offensive line he wasnt in a situation where he could possibly succeed in Cleveland. I think he will be fine in Mariucci's system throwing to Quality Recievers like he did in San Francisco.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Losman2Evans @ Aug 31 2005, 12:53 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>You wouldn't consider Roy Williams, Charles Rogers, Mike Williams REAL O Threats...?</div> yea really man they have litterally not potential unless they get someone to get them the ball there good but they need the other piece of the puzzle.
The Vikings are going to be better without Randy Moss, and so will Culpepper. Culpepper is going to have the best season of his career this season, Randy was holding him back in the past, with Culpepper always thinking that he had to throw him the ball.Randy has allowed the Vikings to vastly improve their defense, and get some productive young receivers. Nate Burleson is going to be great as the number 1 man, and Troy Williamson is going to have a great career ahead of him.The Vikings and Culpepper are going to have a great season, mark my word.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (crocks22 @ Sep 4 2005, 01:39 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Randy was holding him back in the past</div> I'm a vikings fan like the next guy, but i wouldnt go as far as to say that. Culpepper was always known as a QB to spread it around, but everyone had his main target and his primary reciever was usually Moss.But Culpepper will get much better with progression
I don't know. Pepper might do better now without moss becuse he will have so many targets he can realy kill offenses. We've got Saucer back and Wiggums or whatever his name is at TE who are both good. We've got burleson and Robinson who are both proven at 1 and 2 spots in the WR. Then we've got Travis Taylor at the 3rd WR. I havn't seen or heard much about him but from what I have heard he's good and might even pass onto the second spot.Then at the 4th spot we've got Troy Will. It remains to be seen what he can do in the NFL seson but if he truely lives up to his hype then the vikings and Daunte might have one of the best passing offenses still. As well as a deep rushing core.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GreasedLightning @ Sep 4 2005, 10:33 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I don't know. Pepper might do better now without moss becuse he will have so many targets he can realy kill offenses. We've got Saucer back and Wiggums or whatever his name is at TE who are both good. We've got burleson and Robinson who are both proven at 1 and 2 spots in the WR. Then we've got Travis Taylor at the 3rd WR. I havn't seen or heard much about him but from what I have heard he's good and might even pass onto the second spot.Then at the 4th spot we've got Troy Will. It remains to be seen what he can do in the NFL seson but if he truely lives up to his hype then the vikings and Daunte might have one of the best passing offenses still. As well as a deep rushing core.</div> Im not saying vikes will do bad in the air attack, just Moss was a great target.And Wiggins*and Taylor will be the #2 reciever, and depending on if Koren gets signed he might play slot.
