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Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe
Hill was drafted by the perfect coach. Had he wound up with a playcaller who lined him up on one side of the field and just used him as you'd use a guy like Emmanuel Sanders or Keenan Allen he wouldn't have been as successful, IMO.
If you put McCaffery in NE he'd be Wes Welker on steroids.
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That's what the Chiefs did last year with Hill, dude. In just his 2nd year, he had converted from RB to WR and learned the basics of Andy Reid's complex WR offense.
This is what you don't ****ing understand and apparently never will. Hill is a WR. He's always been a WR in the NFL. He left behind the RB position in college. When he's lined up in the backfield THAT'S when he becomes a gadget guy, and those instances are rare. Reid only draws that up like once every 2-3 games or so. It's hardly like we're trying to use him as some bizarre hybrid thing.
When Christian McCaffery comes out of the backfield, he becomes a gadget guy. His main position is RB (a shitty one at that). You can talk all you want about how he has no real true position and whatever percentage of games a certain share of his touches were receptions and not carries, but on an average play, you'll find him lined up in the backfield.
Look at the routes Hill runs. He's frightening. He's a FASTER version of Steve Smith.
What you have in Carolina isn't Steve Smith, and it sure as hell ain't Wes Welker. It's a slower, bulkier version of Dexter McCluster, complete with all the specially designed plays just for him that take your offense out of its rhythm and make it so the opposing defense only has to crack the code of your trick play in order to shut it completely down.