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without Warner?
And Faulk?
And Martz?
And Bruce?
Put Holt on the Fisher team of the last few years and no one would know his name.
You gotta have a lot of pieces for a guy like Holt to thrive. He wasn't unusually big or fast or strong or elusive. He was a technician who ran precise routes and had terrific hands. So he ran all the right routes and caught the ball, but what good does it do if you a) don't have an imaginative coach that throws the ball, b) don't have a QB who can deliver the ball, c) don't have a RB that can keep the defense honest, and d) don't have an oline that protects well enough to LET the QB throw the ball?
I'm not entirely sure what we actually have today in the way of WRs because we don't have a) a coach that throws the ball, and b) we don't know if we have a QB that can deliver it, and c) we don't know if we have an oline that can protect. But the good news is we definitely have an RB to keep the defense honest.
A lot will be answered this year, I think.
My hunch is that offseason next year will be spent looking for a lights-out #1 WR......whether by trade, FA or draft.
And my hunch is that our oline will look no worse than a C+ NFL oline, and Goff will have ups and downs as he learns the craft....but everything I have seen and heard from true football guys tells me that with good coaching, the right system, and patience, we have no worse than a marginal Pro-Bowl caliber QB in a couple of years. But I thought that with Bradford, too.
I agree Holt would not have the GSOT numbers under fisher, but he would still be recognized throughout the league as being the Rams top WR. He was too talented not to be. Crappy QB/WR play has been the Rams Achilles heel more than poor playcalling/scheme IMO.