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I'm your host Bobby Skinner here with my co-host.

Justin Pennick. Justin, today's episode we got an offensive player, defensive player as usual, but not as usual.

Both these guys are former Cleveland Browns. Fun fact there for you.

I'd like to do fun facts for these episodes. So there's a fun fact for you.

There you go. That's your fun fact. Both of these guys are also former first round picks from the Cleveland Browns, which I'm sure some fans, if maybe if you're a more casual fan, you didn't know that this Corey Coleman guy who

he may be our fourth or fifth wide receiver on the Dept chart this year he's a former first round pick and it's not even like he was taking in 2010 he was taking in 2016, which is still crazy.

He's technically still in his rookie contract years. Bobby, I guess just to get right into Corey Coleman, the big macro observation that I have about Corey Coleman, you know, he tore his ACL last year.

I'm sure maybe you're going to get into some of his stats. He doesn't have that many stats, but Corey Coleman, if he did not tear his ACL and if he did not have that season in Ding-Injury last year, he had the year that Daria Slayton has and he's taking the giants by storm by being the number three wide receiver by being the deep threat.

That was his expectation and that was the kind of expectation that that patchermer coaching staff had.

Yeah, we'll get into that in a second. The stats he ran he was a first round former first round pick and for kind of good reason. I mean, a 20 touchdown catches that Baylor and I get Baylor runs a high flying offense, but so does every offense and college football on nowadays, especially the big 12. He had 73 catches like 1300 yards, 20 touchdowns, blue like I'm pressed to the combine 4 4 240 40 and a half inch vertical jump.

So and like his first game with the with the brown, he kind of impressed and then it was just kind of downhill from there. I mean, you know, his rookie year. He had 33 catches 413 yards, 3 touchdowns. His second year 23 catches 303 yards, 2 touchdowns. He missed 13 games and both those seasons.

So, but the bad number is 45.2% catch percentage is rookie year 39.7. His second year. Now, he made an appearance on hard knocks when he complained that he wasn't starting. They traded for the bills. Things don't work out with the bills. The bills cut on the pages, bring them in for a couple of coffee and then the giants finally bring him in to play some special teams.

They let him play a little wide receiver. He had five catches 71 yards for us and not much playing time, but showed some of that like rookie promise that he had that speed that ability to go up and make some contest to catch us. Justin, like you said, he was slated to be the number three wide receiver. It was between him and Cody Latimer and myself, like most fans probably would have picked Cory Coleman. I mean, I was picking Cory Coleman to be that guy and Darryl Slayton was the guy going into last year.

Hey, give him 10 reps of game to go stretch the field, make some plays and then if he proves it proves it. So I do think Slayton probably eventually would have overtaken Coleman because I mean, he over took Latimer pretty quickly. But I mean, Coleman, while there's not a ton of the go off, like the expectations were high and then the ACL tears and we're looking at wide receivers.

I don't know what to expect from him this year, but I think I'm slating him at wide receiver for at this point.

Yeah, I would certainly agree with you and going back to that expectation point or there how there wasn't any expectation, but the coaching staff was certainly putting an expectation on him before he suffered that injury.

There are a few players every summer. I feel Evan Angrom is a guy this summer that Joe judge and this coaching staff, they're putting an expectation on him, you know, with some of Joe judges quotes that we've heard, you know, oh, I enjoy watching you practice every day. So don't disappoint us. I feel like there's a couple guys every summer that a coaching staff will hype up, whether that's intentionally or whether that's the social media team that just puts out videos, but Cory Coleman was that guy last summer. He's been quiet. I don't really know if we have full confirmation on.

Where he's been lining up, but who he's been lining up with that's intentional because that's Joe judge. But Bobby the year in 2018, I think the game that gives you the most promise, which by the way, there was only there was only one, two, three, four games in 2018 where he had a catch and the game that he had the most catches and was two and it was against Washington in 2018. He caught some deep balls down the sideline. So that's those are the plays that get you most excited about what Coleman can do. So I'm with you. I don't really I don't really know what to do.

I don't really I don't really know what to expect because also as a fan, I look at Coleman. It's like I don't really have that many X I don't really have that much expectations for you, especially when you're coming off that ACL, I'll say it again.

The fantasy data shows you need two years removed from an ACL injury to where you are at your peak physical condition and peak physical form. So excited for Cory Coleman in 2021, but hey, if he does anything great and spectacular that'll surprise me and I'm rooting for that. But if he doesn't, won't be so.

I'm surprised. Well, I mean, he's looked good in clips and and things like that. The issue though is that, oh, we don't have expectations. Well, who are the other water receivers after the big free? It's it's Cory Coleman. David sales, who's been emerging a little bit and then those under after free agents of Austin Mac Benjamin Victor, they're killing really none of those guys has separated themselves. I guess Alex Bachman in in and a sales and yeah, and sales are the ones that have been like popping up.

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