Flashes Won't Cut It, Jamo Needs To Be Reliable
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00:00Like I said we're working our way through this list of five things to
00:04watch for in training camp. We hit the first four, the secondary, the depth on
00:11both lines, the kicking position, and second-year players. The fifth thing and
00:17final thing on Tim Twentyman's list on DetroitLions.com is JMO's development.
00:22Jamison Williams, there has been a ton of hype about JMO's development and they
00:29are excited about what he can be. I feel like we finally get full-time JMO. The
00:37first year he was coming back from a torn ACL, spot duty late in the year. The
00:42second year he had the gambling suspension and was still kind of getting
00:45up to speed. Now it's here. Now it's JMO's time. Third-year player, ton of
00:52promise, and you know what I like most about him? He seemed more than willing to
00:56do the other stuff that makes you a complete football player. We're talking
01:00about blocking downfield, leading the way on long runs, and the social media
01:08presence made some people uncomfortable and got some attention for him, but
01:12ultimately he looks like the kind of guy, if you are willing as a wide receiver to
01:17do that other stuff, it seems like well if you're gonna block certainly you're
01:21gonna do everything you can to catch the ball. That's the fun part and Jamison
01:27Williams, we have seen flashes of something that looks like it could be
01:31pretty special. Like the reverse for a touchdown against San Francisco in the
01:35NFC title. Yeah, we've all felt the same. We just get the ball in his hands and see
01:39what he can do, but they needed him to be good enough to see the field where they
01:44get the ball in his hands. They needed to trust him and he had to earn that trust
01:47through practices and then once you're in the game you got to earn it in the
01:50game and do those things. So by doing all those little things, I feel like the
01:55last few games of the season that's where that trust really paid off and
01:59then in the championship game he was great. He really was, but like from that
02:03the game against the Chargers on, he was a guy making that mark and you could see
02:09it on the field where there were different routes run to him. Before it was
02:12maybe he just, you know, streak down the field and being used as a decoy, but as
02:17the season went on he started doing drag routes across the field and there was
02:21some mis-timing there and then they got the timing down and then look out, you
02:26know, able to break through and I'm excited about what he can become because
02:29it does sound like he's ascending rather than just, you know, walking flat or
02:34descending. He's off to a pretty good start in the offseason compared, at least
02:39from what people are telling us. We haven't seen it personally and it's not
02:42gonna matter until you actually get into a game of what we're gonna see, but I
02:46mean, there was the video of this perfect pass thrown by Jared Goff that hit some
02:50right in stride on the sideline that only James Williams would be able to
02:54catch it. From OTAs? Yeah, it was a great pass and a great catch and I can't wait
03:01to see that done in a regular season. Well, the speed fans love, I don't care
03:08what sports you're talking about, fans love great speed. They're really super
03:12excited about Andreas Athanasiou or Quentin Barry or guys who have ceilings
03:18on what they can be, but if they're fast, we'll take calls and people get so fired
03:22up. Jamison Williams is not the next Andreas Athanasiou or Quentin Barry.
03:29Jamison Williams has a chance to be a massive difference maker in the NFL and
03:35it's not a requirement, okay, that he's great because I think
03:42Kalief Raymond can play the Josh Reynolds role, but it'd be a lot better
03:47for them if Jamison Williams played the Josh Reynolds role and then some and I
03:51don't know the Kalief Raymond, I don't know the Kalief Raymond's got a lot of
03:54then some. I think he can play the Josh Reynolds role and I think he's well
03:57respected, but Jamison Williams can be Josh Reynolds and more. Jamison Williams
04:03is expected to be Jamison Williams, which is a first-round pick. Guy is selected
04:08halfway through the first round. There's a lot that comes with that and it's not
04:13like your ceiling is not Josh Reynolds. That's not the ceiling. No. It's got to
04:20be way higher than that. You know, I mean look at Aminara St. Brown, what he's
04:25done. He wasn't looking at his ceiling as being a third-round pick or a
04:29fourth-round pick. He upped the ante, wore a chip on his shoulder as big as can be,
04:33continues to shine that thing up every day and now he's one of the top five
04:38receivers in football. And if Jamison Williams doesn't necessarily blossom
04:45this year, are they gonna be okay at wide receiver? Then all of a sudden a lot
04:50falls on the shoulders of Kalief Raymond. A lot falls on the shoulders of maybe, I
04:58mean, it could be DPJ, it could be Antoine Green, it could be the kid that
05:05they signed from, his name completely escapes me, Trey Quant Smith, the kid
05:10they signed for New Orleans. I'll tell you who really falls on, Brad Holmes. Yeah.
05:14If it's not working out, then you have to find somebody by the trade deadline and
05:22then of course all the thoughts are gonna be, well, with next year's draft
05:25maybe they're gonna have to go to receiver again the first round, but
05:28hopefully it never gets to that point. I think I saw enough out of Jamison
05:32Williams at the end of the season last year that tells me this is gonna be a
05:36breakout year. It doesn't feel like it's a stretch.