Or maybe this should be titled, "No New Catches." Every year we hear how one guy is gonna get more involved in the offense, or that a coach is going to change up the gameplan. It's all BS.

Coaches say all kinds of things in the offseason, like Herm Edwards saying that Larry Johnson is going to catch more balls. The problem is that once the season gets into full swing, these guys always go back to their old ways. The reason is that any drastic or even perceivable changes in the gameplan that don't work will get pinned on the coach. But if they are conservative and stay mired in their ways, they have a myriad of options to place the blame. After all, they hired him because of his style, so it can't be the gameplan. It must be that the players didn't execute, or the owner didn't give him the right players, or the fans didn't cheer loud enough, or whatever else they can come up with to divert attention from the fact that it's them that can't do a basic coach's function like manage a clock. (Ahem! Herm Edwards...)

Herm can say whatever he wants, and you can take Larry ahead of PPR machines like Westbrook or Bush, I just hope you pick in front of me.