Will Malachi Corley Be Able to Break the 2nd Round Curse?

I hope Hackett gets shipped out to Siberia before the season opener. Not feeling it, but just sayin'. Why can't this team ever get out of its own way.

 

Was gonna bring him up. Think the OP was referring to wide receivers.

 

He was, otherwise the list is more embarrassing. I feel like my feelings were being protected in some way.

Edit & P.S. because this is rich: Christian Hackenberg very recently blamed the Jets for his failure. "It was the last.place I should have gone", "they had no plan for me." I don't dispute that last part in general, but that backhanded slap is full of baseless ego and kind of hilarious. If you suck, you suck.

 

The success of any receiver is mostly dependent on the QB's ability to target him. After that is when we can determine if he can play in this league.

 

Haven’t seen the full quote or interview, but crazy if he’s really blaming the Jets. Though of course BOTH can be and probably are true…the Jets did not have a clue how to develop him or any other QB since Pennington, but also true that he just sucks so bad he couldn’t even get on the field for one single play. And he couldn’t latch on to any other team either. So he is clearly the problem but the Jets are not blameless either

 

This is not the original article I saw, I can't find it now, oh, well. The Jets are not blameless and often clueless, but why this guy thought he would have been the second coming if he landed anywhere but here is ridiculous. If you're hitting sideline reporters in the head instead of hitting your receivers, that qualifies as a you problem.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...ew-york-was-the-last-place-i-should-have-gone

Even worse were the delusional sycophants about how the Jets ruined Tim Tebow's career. Fine, they didn't use him right or what have you, but Tim Tebow SUCKED.

It was a baseless phenomenon and a weird cult, other than him leading a 95 yard scoring drive against who else? Yours truly the Jets as a Bronco. Oh, wait, also a 5 yard rushing TD against the Jets previously. Oh, the pain, but whatever.

He still sucked. Sorry for the left turn and the tangent, ha.

 

I’m skeptical of small school guys who win by bullying other small school guys physically. If he was a great route runner it would be a different story

I hope I’m wrong though cause he seems like a great kid

 

I hate to break it to you but the very basic essence of football is bullying. Barry Sanders used to steal the souls of lesser players and he was the nicest guy on the field.

 

yes but Barry outran NFL defenders not PSAC defenders or whatever conference Corley played in

 

I take issue with the bolded. I believe the Jets used Tebow exactly as they planned for him all along. His purpose was to sell PSLs and season tickets. How successful that was is unknown. I don't think that anyone at the Jets actually believed he would be a viable NFL quarterback. Even the Jets get things right occasionally.

Here's what Forbes said at the time:

The take-aways from the Jets acquisition of Tim Tebow ars as follows:

1) Off-the-field, the Jets organization - not ones to shy away from the limelight and in the shadows of their roommates' (the Giants) 2011 Super Bowl season - wanted to make a public relations and marketing splash. Mission accomplished.​

 

I've been around long enough it's impossible to say one way or another with any degree of confidence until we see him play this year.

 

Well, I heard Stephen was a good fella.

 

yea he signed today.

 

A successful receiver knows the route trees and hot routes so he’s always where the QB expects him to be. After that it’s his hands and athleticism, then it’s his QB. There are plenty of successful receivers with avg to bad QB’s.

A player like Corley requires one of two things to be successful in the NFL: a creative coach with plays plays drawn up specifically for him to exploit his athleticism (Deebo Samuel type), or the ability to learn and execute all routes quickly to be at least avg against his peers. The inability to understand and execute a full route tree has killed far more WR’s NFL hopes than bad QB’s have.

 

Being that he was a third round pick, I say no way.

 

Not feeling great about Corley at this point. Hope he performs in the regular season better than it seems he has in preseason and camp.

 

I hate to agree, because for someone that's been praised for "YAC" I don't think I've seen a play yet to justify excitement.