Now kiss
I just want Y. A. to tell me when Thanksgiving is.
Look it up on the internet in the teacher's lounge.
Thanksgiving falls on the day every year the Vikings are eliminated from the playoffs.
@ammo posted:No, YaYa can kiss my rosy red ass.
You want him to spank you first?
You think you can teach me some communication skills? More like I should teach you some comprehension skills.
Best hope: a fat version of Deion Branch prior to injury.
Thanks for posting YA. I'm most excited about this pick. We haven't had a real middle of the field guy since Cobb and this guy looks ideal for that. Plus, it seems like he can do a whole lot more, maybe lining up in the backfield, lot of motion, etc. and even handle punts.
Yeah, CU, based on those clips he's exactly the kind of weapon we've been missing....
I have a good feeling about this guy as a rookie.
@YATittle posted:I have a good feeling about this guy as a rookie.
You think he gives you a good feeling? You should see what Johnny Z is doing while he reads the article. And his mother warned him he’d go blind doing that.
Love to see how they're thinking about him. Don't care he's a rookie.
Preseason optimism or blarney? You decide.
Vrable was blunt about the reason for Rodgers’ limited opportunities last year: he simply wasn’t good enough.
“I don’t give Amari the out that (Randall Cobb) was here. It’s your job to beat Randall out or beat our Z out. Even though he plays slot, I’ve got him working out at Z and he’s done that before. His performance just wasn’t on their level. That’s just the reality of it, right? It wasn’t that he was bad, but he wasn’t doing the high-level things that Randall was doing or the Z, Lazard.”
For Vrable, Rodgers’ confidence is the factor that needs to change the most, and as he noted, it’s not just verbal confidence, but comfort level and familiarity with the playbook and route concepts that are crucial. That appears to be coming along for the former Clemson receiver, as Vrable said he already looks faster and stronger than he did as a rookie.
Furthermore, he’s been spending plenty of time working on his technique, presumably with mentor and family friend Randall Cobb. “His route-running is already cleaner and crisper,” Vrable said. “I feel really good about Amari. Cobby bumped me the other day and was like ‘Yo, you can feel it from him.’ And I just smiled and was like ‘It’s just the start right now. We’ll see where it’s at when the pads come on and the lights go on.”
Another of Vrable’s charges this offseason is Sammy Watkins, who signed a free agent deal with the Packers some weeks ago after a stint with the Baltimore Ravens last year. Vrable was on the Buffalo Bills’ coaching staff in 2014, the same year that Watkins entered the league as Buffalo’s first-round draft pick, so the two have some history together.
In fact, Vrable’s past experience with Watkins made him the front office’s pick to help write up scouting reports on the wideout when he has been a free agent in the past. “(I) told them I’ve been with Sammy, I know how he can catch, I know how strong he is, (I know) a lot of the good things he can do because I was with him for that time.”
Among the factors that Vrable emphasized multiple times is Watkins’ ability to catch the football. “One thing you’ll see with him is he plucks the ball different. He has hands that are like, you’ll hear the pluck.”
I follow Amari on social media and know he's been working his butt off to get into much better shape, changed his diet, and working with Cobb.
I think we will see a much different version of him vs his rookie year.
4 receptions for 45 yards? I sure would hope he could improve on that 
3rd round draft pick and not a Pro Bowl player. Cut him now.
Imo he’s the X factor/wild card this year.
Why Packers shouldn’t give up on Amari…
@Chongo posted:Why Packers shouldn’t give up on Amari…
This article was written in April………he does have flashes of some good stuff, but he’s is never gonna be a Davante Adams. 
He's looked much better as a returner but I gotta think there's better options on the roster for that. He's also looked good on the jet sweep but I need to see him play better as a WR to justify that top 100 pick.
All of these highlights came in college pre-injury. There was a reason before that ACL he was considered a first round pick.
Speed is not his problem.
His mental acuity is.
I try to maintain patience with Amari's development but after finally watching the second half vs NOS, he's not helping his case. The jet sweep is fine but he didn't really look explosive or shifty in any way. He has a lot of college tape showing what he is capable of but so far, if you just forget who he is and only base your opinion on what you've seen of him in GB, you'd think he was an undrafted FA that will probably get cut before final roster count.
Because of his history they almost have to stick with him another year but come on kid, hit the gas!
Nothing indicates to me that the organization is giving up on him, but this year and TC next year is the end of his grace period. As I've said, the team's investment in him is the only thing keeping him off the roster bubble.
@Chongo posted:All of these highlights came in college pre-injury. There was a reason before that ACL he was considered a first round pick.
Crazy how that ACL injury seems to have spread to his hands.
Devante’s second year, his ankle injury did the same to him.
Damn lower body injuries. Know your place, dammit!!
@Goalline posted:Devante’s second year, his ankle injury did the same to him.
As someone else mentioned above, by many statistical measures he was close to being the worse NFL WR that year. The problem was that he should not have been playing, but the Packers had run out of WRs, TEs, and RBs and they couldn't afford not to have him out there even at 50%. Jordy blew out his ACL in the preseason. Ty Montgomery got hurt and went on IR. Cobb was beginning to get banged up. James Jones was their best WR and probably ran about a 5.0 40 at that point. Quarless got hurt and RichRod was the TE. Lacey was beginning his downward trajectory. Janis! and Abbrederis weren't even good enough to get on the field under those circumstances.
In retrospect, the mental toughness that Adams displayed to even get on the field and then not lose his confidence probably helped him become what he is now.
The other thing is how good Aaron Rodgers was that year. To make the playoffs with that group of healthy skill position players was nothing short of remarkable.