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Clearly the most talented guy? All he's shown is speed. He hasn't shown he can make a catch like a couple that DX brought down last year. He hasn't shown he can get open other than running a go route. I'm not sure what player you have been watching, but it wasn't Donnie Avery.I thought this was obvious!... apparently not?
I dont think you can judge him by the numbers here... he has been a part of one of the worst offensive stretches for one team in NFL history. I think it would have been a struggle for just about any WR to put up solid numbers with the combination of Line play, Quarterback play and surrounding skill players(other than SJAX obviously). Now Avery has all these things. We shall see how be comes back from the injury , who knows he is a speed guy , maybe hes done. But I still think pre-injury hes clearly the most talented guy
I'm not sure what player you have been watching, but although the 'most talented' label is debatable, Avery has made some damn impressive catches. Danario is just fresher in everyone's minds.Clearly the most talented guy? All he's shown is speed. He hasn't shown he can make a catch like a couple that DX brought down last year. He hasn't shown he can get open other than running a go route. I'm not sure what player you have been watching, but it wasn't Donnie Avery.
Tough to find Avery highlights, but I haven't seen anything near as impressive as this... or the one against SF.http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d81b61d29/Alexander-38-yard-TD-catchI'm not sure what player you have been watching, but although the 'most talented' label is debatable, Avery has made some damn impressive catches. Danario is just fresher in everyone's minds.Clearly the most talented guy? All he's shown is speed. He hasn't shown he can make a catch like a couple that DX brought down last year. He hasn't shown he can get open other than running a go route. I'm not sure what player you have been watching, but it wasn't Donnie Avery.
I do think we've seen Amendola's ceiling. This doesn't mean he can't be useful to your Fantasy team this season but I have seen enough of what he brings to the table to recognize his limitations pretty clearly. If I can so did the Rams. I also think Bradford a top QB in the making. Amendola was also a practice squad player claimed from the Cowboys, so I don't put too much on the fact Pettis/Salas were not high picks. There was a big drop in # 1 WR after Little and Baldwin and the Rams had other needs as a higher priority before WR. There is plenty opportunity for all of them there for different reasons.
He is 22 right now.
It was a joke. If McDaniels wasn't loyal to Cutler, why does anyone think he will be loyal to a bunch of much less heralded WR's filling a roster just because they were there when he was hired? That's all I'm saying.This is a team widely considered to be lacking in the play-maker department...and that includes Amendola's 80+ receptions. Rather than counting on just getting healthy this year, the Rams go out a acquire two WR's and a TE that show promise of that. You're getting a WR in a TE's (albeit a thin, wiry TE) body. You're getting a guy that looks to have some physical red-zone skills in Pettis. And you're looking at a Salas as someone with great hands that seems to have a knack for getting separation before and after the catch even though he doesn't have elite timed speed.Clayton isn't getting any younger and has spent his career perpetually dinged up. Alexander's knees are a big question mark. And how many games has Avery played over the last couple of years? What has Robinson or Gibson done even when healthy?Cutler under McDaniels?
That is something that has to be taken into account with McDaniels, as in Denver he very much favored his hand picked choices or those he considered "his guys" as evidenced by the fact he never gave Hillis a chance (despite the fact that he looked the best of all RBs in training camp during Moreno's rookie year). Perhaps his not being HC will make a difference, but with his ego, I would tend to think he will eventually favor some of the players taken this year, particularly Lance Kenricks.It was a joke. If McDaniels wasn't loyal to Cutler, why does anyone think he will be loyal to a bunch of much less heralded WR's filling a roster just because they were there when he was hired? That's all I'm saying.This is a team widely considered to be lacking in the play-maker department...and that includes Amendola's 80+ receptions. Rather than counting on just getting healthy this year, the Rams go out a acquire two WR's and a TE that show promise of that. You're getting a WR in a TE's (albeit a thin, wiry TE) body. You're getting a guy that looks to have some physical red-zone skills in Pettis. And you're looking at a Salas as someone with great hands that seems to have a knack for getting separation before and after the catch even though he doesn't have elite timed speed.Cutler under McDaniels?
Clayton isn't getting any younger and has spent his career perpetually dinged up. Alexander's knees are a big question mark. And how many games has Avery played over the last couple of years? What has Robinson or Gibson done even when healthy?
Jordan Cameron
It is interesting to note Eddie Royal, but I think his problem was an inability to adapt to the "hot reads" required in a McDaniels offense. Could that happen to Amendola too? Perhaps but there are certain improvisational (for lack of a better term) skills required in a McDaniels offense, and I would think that a possession, move-the-chains WR like Amendola is probably more likely to make the transition than Royal.
Cameron is a particularly raw rookie, at least a year away from doing anything, esp with the lockout. IMO of course.Jordan Cameron
This is what it comes down to for me. Someone is going to depend on this guy for a starter. That someone is not going to be me.
Another factor is the QB position. Bradford is well on his way to being one of the best QBs of all time. I have no reservation in making that statement.Amendola is going to be a gold mine in PPR leagues, IMO.
This. I remember reading after McDaniel's first year an interview with (or about) Eddie Royal in which it was discussed that one of the issues Royal had making the transition to a slot role in McDaniel's offense was that he did not have a very high football IQ and struggled at making reads based off the way the defenders were playing him. One of the keys to Welker's game is his ability to read the LB covering him and shift right/left depending on how the defense was initially disguised. Amendola followed Welker at Texas Tech and has said he studied Welker a lot on film in college. It wouldn't surprised me if Amendola continued to study Welker in the NFL and has enough of a football IQ to make a better (how much, who knows?) transition than Royal did.
I do. No way they rely on 8 yards per catch so much if they had healthy WR's all season. Is Amendola keeping the seat warm for Salas? Maybe. Salas has to show he can do it. A 4th round draft slot gets him a cup of coffee in the league. He has to do something with it. That being said, Amendola needs to do something once he catches the ball or he's going to be waiting for an injury to get back on the field.
I actually agree here.
I agree there's a gold mine, I just don't know if it has the word Amendola Etched in the wood over the entrance. It might this year. But next year it could have Salas or the rook they grab in 2012 if Salas doesn't pan out and Amendola doesn't improve that YAC.
I agree with his first statement too, which is why he's not going to settle for getting the ball to Amendola 80 times again. Danario's knee appears to be OK, Clayton and Avery are back, there's a new pass catching TE in the mix, and a couple of rookie WRs with promise.Most importantly, Bradford has a year under his belt and history generally shows that a QB makes a big leap between years one and two. If Bradford is getting it, and I am pretty sure hie will be, he'll see the whole field a lot better and won't rely on dump offs to Amendola as a security blanket like he had to last year. Shurmer game planned for an inexperienced rookie. McDaniels will game plan for a quality QB that now has playmakers and will be ready to get it to them.
Wow. Already saying he is well on his way to being one of the best of all time seems a bit rash to me. He was a very impressive rookie, but I would prefer to at least see a player show he is one of the best of his own time before we start going down that road. The Bradford hype is getting pretty crazy.
