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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Based on the exercise I just ran, I think you could make an argument Hardman is actually BETTER.
No, Hardman doesn't get as much attention in the passing game as Brown does, because Hardman has been weapon 3/4 rather than 2 like Brown has been... but Lamar Jackson also has more gravity than Mahomes, in drawing the back 7 up.
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I don't think it's a particularly difficult one.
Where I may quibble a little is just raw skill-sets. Its kinda like that Austin vs. Watson argument I had a couple weeks ago. Brown gets his speed more 'violently' for lack of a better way of putting it, harder/quicker/shorter strides that allow for a bit more elusiveness and quickness in a phonebooth. Whereas Hardman is often a glider who actually has a really good first step for a guy his size, but he doesn't foot-fire as quickly as Brown so he's not quite the jitterbug Brown could be.
But mostly that's devils advocate stuff. I'm not 100% sure I believe it in this instance. I certainly don't believe it enough to trade Hardman and a first for Brown. And in the end I'd almost certainly stick with the guy that's been here 3 seasons and showed tremendous improvement down the stretch last season even in a 1 for 1 deal.
That's just pure 'prospect pedigree' driving a proposed trade. It is, as has been said already,
incredibly lazy.