re: Tavon Austin at 15

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Like I said, I'm with you. Bring in Tavon.

We don't need a big, tall, fast WR like Patterson on the outside. Morgan is perfectly capable to provide that deep outside threat despite his 5 starts.

Even when Morgan's hammy goes out or his shoulder gets separated, and there's no deep threat behind him, it won't get crowded in the middle because Tavon will already be in the endzone doing a dance. We won't even have to put someone on the line on the outside. We could have a cardboard cut-out of Morgan there. Yeah, that outside position doesn't need any addressing at all. The slot is a priority because Lance Moore only makes first downs not touchdowns like Tavon would.

Go Tavon!

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Gotta love posts like this.

You make it sound lke Patterson is Randy Moss and Austin is Wayne Chrebet. It's not like Patterson is some 6'5 giant. He's also not even as fast as Austin nor is he the kind of WR who high-points the ball in traffic and really uses his height to his advantage. He's a breadbasket catcher who negates most of his 6'2 height by letting balls get into his body instead of catching with his hands.

Again, Moore can man the outside position just fine. It's hysterical how often yal bring-up Moore being in the slot when he wasn't even lined up in the slot as much as Colston was.

Also, the NFL has evolved. Designated positions like TEs, slot WRs, possession WRs, etc have gone out the window. We now flex TEs like Graham out over CBs and bring 6'6 WRs like Colston in the slot to get them on safeties. It's about mismatches. Quit making it sound like Patterson is our only option on the outside when Austin could play it just as well.

Lastly, gimme the guy who dominated everyone he played for the last 3 years as opposed to a guy who had one big year of torching average teams and never really throttling the big boys.