re: Jason Verrett & Jarvis Landry...What could have been...

I mean when you have a top 5 offense and a bad defense, maybe drafting defensive players makes more sense. Hopkins would have been nice, but we can manage on the offensive side of the ball. The thing that has killed this team has always been defense. Look at the 2010 and 2011 post season, or hell, go back to 2006. We won a SB b/c we forced turnovers and had good dline pressure. It's a simple formula really.

jarvis also has a punt return TD and a rushing TD, not to mention that jarvis has ryan tannehill throwing to him and cooks has Drew Brees. Jarvis would be lighting the world on fire if he was on the saints.

How can you think this?!?!? cooks is a str8 line burner with pretty good hands and good route running. Jarvis isnt as fast, but the man just gets open, and what he can do after the catch is great for his "inferior" speed. Jarvis returns kicks, rushes for positive yardage almnost every game (yes, i know cooks has a couple rushing plays himself), has hands like vice grips, and plays with the mindset of a cornered lion. Do you see the blocks he throws on defenders? Just Brutal for a guy his size. Cooks has very little wiggle in those hips and very rarely makes a defender miss. He's not the darren sproles we hoped for. He is a good receiver but, In absolutely NO WAY is brandin Cooks MORE versatile than jarvis landry and in you saying that, you show that you have no idea what you're talking about.

He can run more routes.

He can be a possession guy and a deep threat. He can be used on screens and as a scat back.

There is a massive difference in speed between the two.

Landry houses punts and handoffs. Cooks goes down at first contact. Laughable that cooks is more versatile.

Jarvis does all of those things better than cooks except running deep. the screen game is close but id have to give jarvis the edge as hes had more screen opportunities up until this point. and yes, i do remember cooks scoring on that beatiful 30 yard screen play in the beginning of the year. My main problem with cooks is that he just cant make someone miss that much when he is in the open field. If he cant beat the defender to the edge, he is not going to get past him. He has No moves whatsoever besides to change direction and run the opposite way. Not to mention, that Jarvis, although kind of small can go up and win a contested ball, where as cooks does not seem to possess that trait.

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Jarvis does all of those things better than cooks except running deep.

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Jarvis is a hell of a player, but lacks the deep threat which limits his versatility.

Just because he does some things better than cooks doesn't overcome the speed and deep threat factor imo. He also has a pretty potent group along with him

And his punt return skills are good, but I don't want my top receiver returning kicks anyways. That's how he was hurt last year

That is actually a better comparison

Snead is better than Landry too

Despite 13 less targets & 12 less catches he has more yards, more reTDs,, 2x as many catches of +20 yards, and just as many first down catches as Landry.

in the miami offense. not because of his capabilities