It’s a critical attribute for any NFL (or any pro sport) GM/Exec/Scout/Coach/Etc to be able to see the gradual beginning decline of a player before it becomes blatantly obvious to the masses. That’s when you trade said player based on their presumed level of talent when you know they’re going nowhere but down. Slowly, perhaps, but down. And once you start to decline as an athlete, you generally don’t go back up. You just keep going down. The great ones just go down a LOT slower.
So, based in no small part on the fact that Wes Welker (and this is a non-verified observation…no mathematics involved, just eyes) from what I saw (and I saw a lot) dropped more passes last year than the past 3-4 years combined, his loss has been greatly exaggerated.
Would he be better than Boyce, Dobson, or Thompkins? Sure.
But I think the pendulum has swung from 2-3 years ago to the point where I can now say that Wes Welker is a poor man’s Julian Edelman.
-Puppy >.< Yip!