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With the end of the preseason coming soon, and the likeliness we won't throw the ball much this saturday, I wanted to ask you guys your thoughts on Kasen Williams. What do you expect from him going forward? Do you think he has regressed? Is he just being eased in after his injury? Will we ever see him back to full strength, and can the team perform without a big possession receiver?
I'm not sure about the answers to these questions, but I can't help to feel a little sad about Kasen.
I can't believe he is already a senior. He was never gonna be Calvin Johnson for us but I feel like he could have been the main man of the passing offense at least, like a Kearse. He is slow but he is tough, big and physical.
He is already running out of time and he never really became the star we thought he would be. Part of this is the shitty bubble screen Sark ball, part of this is injury. I really hope we get to see him shine this season, he deserves it and we might need it more than we think.
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He looks slower than the slow he was before the lisfranc, sadly. There is still hope as the timeline for complete recovery is 18-24 months.
battlecripple fight while Cyler was suspended.My expectations for this season couldn't be any lower. He should have redshirted this year but Jaylen Johnson got kicked off the team and screwed that up. He'll have some nice games blocking for bubble screens but be pretty invisible otherwise. He'll have a solid Arena Football career once he fully heals.
The myth is/was he couldn't go deep, but he can. He did as a freshman and he did some last year. The play he got hurt on was after he completely burned the DB. The reason he didn't as a sophomore was because the line couldn't hold a block for more than two seconds. He was overrated by Scout coming out of high school, but he's always been really good. Hopefully, he gets it back this season because we will need him at some point.
Williams is a possession receiver in the mold of a Michael Irvin, except he's not as bad ass as the Playmaker was. That kind of Harold Carmichael type - it's all between the ears and in your ball sack, and some guys have it and some don't. Williams hasn't grown up in a program that demands of its receivers that they be that tough and disciplined and fearless and over-the-top confident. Irvin had no choice but to be those things and to use his body and run great routes and make phenomenal catches in traffic because he played on teams that featured at various times Eddie Brown, Brett Perriman and Brian Blades.
Williams physically reminds me a lot of Irvin, with better hops, but that's where the comparison ends.
i'm back.
you put it better than I did, which is weird because I'm the resident Hurricane show off.
key distinction for me is vastly different backgrounds and resulting confidence. Irvin grew up w/ 16 siblings, Congo poor living in a particularly shitty part of Ft. Lauderdale. There is no neighborhood in all the PNW to compare to a shit zone in Dade or Broward - i know this. you deal with all that shit, and your balls will be huge too. nothing to lose. Williams grew up on the Plateau screwing the daughters of east side software executives. And their college experiences could not have been more different.
I say this because Williams is one athletically gifted mother fucker, so the key distinction has got to be different brains. Sark either made him a pussy or, more likely, didn't force him to not be.
That being said, KW is a good blocker, so he can be the front-line blocker on all those bubble screens to Ross.
Kasen can/will still catch a TD in every game.