A lot of people may think i'm crazy but i don't get the hype around Dez Bryant. There were a lot of games last year where this guy was singled covered and he still was a non factor as the number 1 WR. I think Becham is a better talent but i can also make a legit claim that if Nicks never sustained those injuries he would be better than Dez. Forget all the hype look at how unstoppable Nicks was pre injury i don't think Dez will ever put a ream on his back and produce the way Nicks did in 2011.
Given the above, you'd be correct that he hasn't taken over like Nicks in at times in 2011. Dez is still very young, it was beginning to click for him last season.
Last years game against the Redskins on MNF this dude was getting shut out by Breeland i'm not making this up it really happened. People make fun Bradley Fletcher but during that game on thanksgiving he was locking Dez up. These things really happened he's good but i think he's over hyped.
I smell an endorsement deal with Office Depot here!
Also, I don't think you have any idea whatsoever how good Dez Bryant actually is.
Also, I don't think you have any idea whatsoever how good Dez Bryant actually is.
Obviously it was a typo. An i know exactly how good Dez is he's not better than Beckham, Antonio Brown or Demaryius Thomas.
Nicks didn't have to "put the team on his back" because other guys were also making plays. Loved the guy but this post is silly. Dez is a better player than Nicks ever was.
Nicks didn't have to "put the team on his back" because other guys were also making plays. Loved the guy but this post is silly. Dez is a better player than Nicks ever was.
Really so against the Packers and Atlanta i guess nicks didn't dominate without any help from Cruz or Manningham.
Worst games Ari: 2, 15 1. Wash: 3, 30 1. NO: 3, 44, 1.
4 100+ yard games: 3 games 2 TDs: 1 game 3 TDS: 8 games 6+ catches.
Doesn't suck.
How often were teams able to double cover Hakeem Nicks that year? They couldn't.
Dez gets coverages rolled towards him constantly because DB's can't cover him 1v1.
Nicks didn't have to "put the team on his back" because other guys were also making plays. Loved the guy but this post is silly. Dez is a better player than Nicks ever was.
Dez is still really good, but being real here. He's also been shut down in the playoffs so far. 48 yds per game. No TD's.
Beasley: 37, 420, 4
For comparison, R. Randle: 71, 938, 3
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Dez hasn't had a Victor Cruz in the slot or even a Mario Manningham opposite him. Terrence Williams had a solid year in 2014-15 I guess. Miles Austin was almost always playing on 1.5 hamstrings. Cole Beasley? Kevin Ogletree?
Nicks didn't have to "put the team on his back" because other guys were also making plays. Loved the guy but this post is silly. Dez is a better player than Nicks ever was.
Witten isn't a bum and requires a lot of attention. Even at his age. And Miles Austin was decent for a year, or two.
Dez is still really good, but being real here. He's also been shut down in the playoffs so far. 48 yds per game. No TD's.
He's played in TWO playoff games.. c'mon now.
Nicks' strengths were his physicality, his hands, and his catch radius. Dez beats him in all 3 areas imo. I always hated the fact that Dez looked like a more talented Nicks, they even wore the same number.
The chink in Dez's armor (besides his brain) is that he doesn't have great deep speed and isn't as much of a threat to beat you over the top as some of the other great WRs in the game today. This limits the way he can impact a defense and is the strongest argument against him being called the #1 WR in football.
But he's up there. Top 5 WR for sure in today's game imo. Calvin/Green/Brown/Jones/Dez... imo those are the top 5 with a handful of others in the mix, including our own ODB who could lap all those guys and convincingly grab that #1 spot if he keeps last year's performance up.
Nicks' strengths were his physicality, his hands, and his catch radius. Dez beats him in all 3 areas imo. I always hated the fact that Dez looked like a more talented Nicks, they even wore the same number.
The chink in Dez's armor (besides his brain) is that he doesn't have great deep speed and isn't as much of a threat to beat you over the top as some of the other great WRs in the game today. This limits the way he can impact a defense and is the strongest argument against him being called the #1 WR in football.
But he's up there. Top 5 WR for sure in today's game imo. Calvin/Green/Brown/Jones/Dez... imo those are the top 5 with a handful of others in the mix, including our own ODB who could lap all those guys and convincingly grab that #1 spot if he keeps last year's performance up.
I can respect your way of thinking i just look at him the same way i view Carmelo Anthony their both great players but i could name 5 players at their positions who i would take ahead of them.
He's played in TWO playoff games.. c'mon now.
Right. And Nicks only played in four games, and played magnificent in three of them.
AJ Green is another, but I think it's fair to blame Andy Dalton being terrible in the playoffs mostly.
I've argued quite a few times that peak Nicks > peak Cruz.
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thought he was the man. I'll always be a fan on him because of '11. But Dez is bigger, stronger, faster, and basically does what Nicks did at a higher level.
Nicks' strengths were his physicality, his hands, and his catch radius. Dez beats him in all 3 areas imo. I always hated the fact that Dez looked like a more talented Nicks, they even wore the same number.
The chink in Dez's armor (besides his brain) is that he doesn't have great deep speed and isn't as much of a threat to beat you over the top as some of the other great WRs in the game today. This limits the way he can impact a defense and is the strongest argument against him being called the #1 WR in football.
But he's up there. Top 5 WR for sure in today's game imo. Calvin/Green/Brown/Jones/Dez... imo those are the top 5 with a handful of others in the mix, including our own ODB who could lap all those guys and convincingly grab that #1 spot if he keeps last year's performance up.
I can respect your way of thinking i just look at him the same way i view Carmelo Anthony their both great players but i could name 5 players at their positions who i would take ahead of them.
Name me the things that you think peak Nicks did better than Dez. I'm talking on the football field.
And then name me the WRs in today's game you'd take over Dez.
I'm with arc on Nicks, I loved the guy. But to me Dez just seems like an upgraded model of what Nicks used to be.
Dont be a homer. =)
Unfortunately, Nicks' peak was far too short, so any comparison is incomplete.
Glad that's settled.
And Dez might be fucking crazy, but he's been easily a Top 10 receiver these past few years.
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Nicks didn't have to "put the team on his back" because other guys were also making plays. Loved the guy but this post is silly. Dez is a better player than Nicks ever was.
Nicks never had a running game behind him like the cowboys did with Murray either...Everyone feared our passing game because our running game was meh, not so with dallas.
Thank you.
Nicks best two seasons(2010-11) versus Bryant's 2011-12(average seasons). In 2010 Bryant only started 2 games. Then you have 2013-14 Bryant's best two seasons.
Nicks: 261 targets, 145 receptions, 55.5 catch%, 2,444 yards, 16.9 YPC, 18 Tds.
Bryant: 241 targets, 155 receptions, 64.3 catch%, 2,310 yards, 14.9 YPC, 21 TDs.
Bryant: 295 targets, 181 receptions, 61.4 catch%, 2,553 yards, 29 TDs.
Those are the numbers.
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Nicks best two seasons(2010-11) versus Bryant's 2011-12(average seasons). In 2010 Bryant only started 2 games. Then you have 2013-14 Bryant's best two seasons.
Nicks: 261 targets, 145 receptions, 55.5 catch%, 2,444 yards, 16.9 YPC, 18 Tds.
Bryant: 241 targets, 155 receptions, 64.3 catch%, 2,310 yards, 14.9 YPC, 21 TDs.
Bryant: 295 targets, 181 receptions, 61.4 catch%, 2,553 yards, 29 TDs.
Those are the numbers.
And then he went missing in the playoffs let's not forget that.
Just saying...
Nicks was a very strong receiver....Dez is among the best I've ever seen. Fitz, Calvin, Dez among the contemporaries in an age dominated by great great receivers.
The catch that was overruled was almost the equivalent of Beckhman's grab. Forget his combine numbers the guy climbs ladders to get to balls. Can you forget Prince covering Dez and Time after time Dez just took the ball away.? Then you have his running ability or YAC's. I don't think his brain hurts him, he's involved, passionate, committed.
A dominate athlete and I go back to Rote / Shofner /Homer
Nicks? Who's he?
I can agree that the uninjured Nicks did take over games more than Bryant has so far. Not surprising considering Witten & and their running game competing for yards. Overall, Bryant is the better player (at their best).
Dez could take over a game at any time. If Romo needed to make him the star player that day, it would most likely happen, IMO.
Unfortunately, Nicks' peak was far too short, so any comparison is incomplete.
I'd argue Nicks never had a peak. Dez is night and day better and more dominant. Nicks had one good season.
Dez was an absolute monster several times last year and several times the year before.
It was Eli who put the team on his back, not Nicks.....
Nicks had a great run for the Giants, but Dez is in a different category