Tom Cable comments on Darrius Heyward-Bey
With their choice of any receiver in the draft including Texas Tech's Michael Crabtree, the Oakland Raiders selected Maryland WR Darrius Heyward-Bey with the seventh overall pick.
Jason Jones of the Sacramento Bee posted some Q&A with Raiders coach Tom Cable on the topic of the speedy receiver.
Cable says that the difference between the 41 touchdowns posted by Crabtree and the 13 posted by Heyward-Bey were due to systems. Crabtree played in a spread offense whereas Heyward-Bey played in a pro-style offense.
Cable says that if Heyward-Bey played in a spread offense, "he might have been over 50 touchdowns."
Jason Jones of the Sacramento Bee posted some Q&A with Raiders coach Tom Cable on the topic of the speedy receiver.
Cable says that the difference between the 41 touchdowns posted by Crabtree and the 13 posted by Heyward-Bey were due to systems. Crabtree played in a spread offense whereas Heyward-Bey played in a pro-style offense.
Cable says that if Heyward-Bey played in a spread offense, "he might have been over 50 touchdowns."
"He's the only guy that came out of a true pro-style system. Everyone else was in a spread system. So, his learning curve is much, much shorter than those other guys. Then you got that size, that speed and his ability to go get it. The thing that jumps out at you, this is the one guy at the combine who, at the 30-yard mark, actually changed gears. And there was a whole other warp speed, if you will."Cable or Raiders owner Al Davis or even Heyward-Bey himself can spin it any way they want. However, this is a huge reach and he will be forever be linked to Michael Crabtree, who was drafted by the other team in the Bay area.
