Claypool and Boykin both with fantastic 40s and great verticals. Again...it's not that ND doesn't get athletes..it's how they're used. These 3 all had decent - good careers at ND.
Feel like with better grooming of the QBs and a more innovative route tree and play calling these 3 could've had stellar careers.
All the best to them in the NFL...CC did very well for himself today.
I was so pissed when ESB suffered a season -ending during a preseason game by a dirty play by a Raider defender no less.
He was poised to have a break out season in 2019. Now I'm hearing Green Bay might be using multiple draft choices on WR.
I would love to see ESB return to form & for GB to use 1 of those draft picks on Claypool. That & Dexter Williams emerging in LaFleur's offended would be beyond cool.
was also playing behind ESB, and I thought actually caught the ball way more consistently than either of those two. Claypool, being from Canada, did not play football a lot. They did develop, I think that is good coaching. They were at the level of talent of the elite receivers from the top 5 teams so their progress is consistent or a somewhat better than their talent.
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Far cry from the Weis/Willingham years.
Ever since Coach Balis has been the S&C coach, the players seem to be in much better condition, as well as improving their ceilings while also suffering fewer injuries. I hope we can keep him for the long term. St. Brown could have had a monster year in 2018, had he another year of Balis' program, as well as Ian Book throwing to him.
Paul Longo was a terrible S&C coach. It wasn't just his methods (players were getting hurt a lot more under his eye), but also Longo's lack of actually being there, especially in the later years. I sometimes wonder how blind he was getting, prior to the news coming out last year that he had gone completely blind.
While I do give him some credit for filling in a few gaps that were present under Ruben Mendoza, I'd have to say that as the players who were coached under Mendoza left, and that the players remaining were "purely" his coaching recipients, that things were worse.