Here’s a little tribute to my pod-mate who in his first ever press conference with BB had that cajones to ask him a question. Here’s the transcript of BB’s response…
Q (from Frenz): What are your key factors in evaluating the depth at wide receiver?
BB: Evaluating the depth? How good they are. The more good players you have the more good depth you have, right?
Q (Frenz again, following up): In terms of special teams…
BB: Sure. That’s important too. You’ve only got 46 active players per game and linemen don’t really contribute very much in the kicking game, so once you eliminate the quarterbacks, linemen and your specialists — as far as coverage teams and blockers on return teams — you’re already down to not a lot of players there and you’re talking about 66 spots on special teams with the three phases of kickoff, punt and field goal. That’s a lot of positions to fill with not all that many guys, so a player that can play on two, three, four special teams, obviously the more the better. If it’s at a high level, the more value that player has to your teams. That value has to be weighed with the player’s performance on his side of the ball, offense or defense, along with the other players at that position. Somebody has got to do those things and that’s what training camp is for – to try to evaluate how well they do them and how well they do them relative to other players on your roster.