Troy Brown

Certainly a tale of two halves, though.

Troy Brown, Mike Dussault, Paul Perreault.

I'm Jack Webb, Matt Matanese.

Behind the scenes, tale of two halves.

It's what he does best, and nobody can seem to stop him from doing it.

So why not take a shot at it every once in a while with this kid? Now, he could be obviously more effective if he had A.J.

Brown and... and Dobbs and those guys out on the field that are actually taking some of the attention away from him on some of these routes.

But, again, he got a touchdown out of it.

listen, Paul, I mean, it seemed like...

I guess people were calling it like an embarrassment of riches at the receiver position, but you think about it and you look at it for just like a minute or two, especially with A.J. Brown, and he really didn't know what Romeo Dobbs was going to be.

Yeah, it would have made sense, not even necessarily in hindsight, but before it all happened to...

I don't know, maybe figure out a way to get Diggs back or maybe hang on to Keyshawn Booty.

It wasn't a huge volume, but to Mario Douglas made two huge plays in that game, the fourth down that he gets pretty much all on his own, and then a big touchdown to put the game away in the third quarter.

So, yeah, I think you've seen some of that depth come through.

But, yeah, if you knew A.J. Brown and Romeo Dobbs and Matt Collins and Hunter Henry were all going to be out, I certainly would like to have Stephon Diggs right now.

Now, I guess maybe to that point, Paul, you said something interesting last night in the postgame with you and Deuce and Troy Brown and Fake Hardy.

Yeah.

Where you listen to Edelman, Amendola, Welker, Troy Brown, all those guys talk about, okay, if it's third and four, I, in the back of my mind, know I got to get to third and five.

Listen,

at the start of the year, this is at best your fourth receiver on this team.

That's not like consistent productive offense.

This offense is always one with stick movers, guys that move the chains, guys that grind it, guys that continually are there on third forward when you need them.

Or guys that could, I don't know, break a tackle or pick up some yards after the catch, you know, things like that, which we know that A.J. Brown would be good at, but he hasn't been available.

So I think Drake Mays is making this happen with guys who just are okay.

great shakes.

Andy, Tom Brady was making Super Bowls with Deion Branch and Troy Brown as his top options.

Yeah, but Brady was better than...

Brady was the best.

Because you look at Peyton Manning had Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, and then later Pierre Garcon.

You look at Troy Brown and Deion Brandt, pretty good with Randy Moss for that year up there in New England.

They had some steady wide receivers up there.

Greatest show on turf, Isaac Bruce, Torrey Holt, that era.