Originally Posted by
RuthlessBurgher
I certainly agree. Brown in the man. Dude's work ethic seems to be unparalleled for a receiver in this league since the epic workouts of jerry Rice.
However, Ben does seem to have a knack with his receivers (Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant, Markus Wheaton, Mike Wallace, Emmanuel Sanders, Santonio Holmes, Hines Ward, Antwaan Randle El, Plaxico Burress). The only one on par with him is Aaron Rodgers, who has been excellent with Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Greg Jennings, James Jones, Donald Driver, etc.
Brady, Brees, and Rivers seem to prefer throwing to their TE's like Gronk, Graham, and Gates instead, with many unsuccessful attempts at developing receivers. Brady makes short white guys like Welker or Edelman into stats accumulators but not necessarily dangerous weapons (the only truly dangerous WR in New England during the Brady era was Randy Moss, but he was a beast no matter who was throwing to him as long as he wasn't a disinterested Raider). Brees turned Marques Colston from a 7th round flyer into a Pro Bowl level performer, but that was years ago. If he's not throwing to his TE, he's dumping it off to a RB like Darren Sproles, Reggie Bush, Pierre Thomas, etc. Rivers main weapon at WR during his career was Vincent Jackson, but VJax's numbers actually increased when he left Rivers for the sucktastic Tampa QB's instead. It looks like Keenan Allen was promising as a rookie 2 years ago, but his production tailed off last year.
Basically, what I am trying to say, is that compared to some of the other franchise QB types, Ben has quite the knack for working really well with whatever receivers are placed in front of him (hell, even Cedric Freaking Wilson was semi-competant with Ben throwing him the ball, and that quite an accomplishment there).
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