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Question for you guys who watch a lot of college ball. How is this draft class on TE depth?
Bulldog, I am obsessed with the TE position because the position is evolving. The offenses in this league that have a great one like New Orleans, New England, Green Bay and Atlanta, all have the best offenses in the league.
You're argument that we went 10-6 with Moss making many of those catches is the same as if I say we went 10-6 with a secondary of riff-raff and an RT that couldn't stop me in Pass pro.
Question for you guys who watch a lot of college ball. How is this draft class on TE depth?
Perhaps fodder for a new thread - before we get to who should be drafted (at least on offense)...how do we think the offense will have to change next season? what the Shanhan's engineered last season was brilliant - it also almost ended our franchise QB's career.
how will the O have to change and does that drive different priorities for the draft?
Bulldog, I am obsessed with the TE position because the position is evolving. The offenses in this league that have a great one like New Orleans, New England, Green Bay and Atlanta, all have the best offenses in the league.
You're argument that we went 10-6 with Moss making many of those catches is the same as if I say we went 10-6 with a secondary of riff-raff and an RT that couldn't stop me in Pass pro.
Spot on right here. To say the TE position isn't important is to ignore the current NFL landscape. Jared Cook just broke the bank in St. Louis, and he's not even top 5 at the position, possibly not even top 10.
Moss did not catch a lot of TE balls, he caught a lot of slot WR balls. Big difference! And if you have a speedy TE AND an elusive slot WR on the field at the same time, your options are so much broader!
We need a good TE, its that simple. I believe they'll bring back Davis, because all other options aren't that great.
I'm not going to answer your question here, but I saw an awesome Shanahan quote that got me excited for the season on the read option:
"We don't have to run the read-option, but defenses have to prepare for it."
The thought that the entire last season was a feint on offense, and now we've got a whole new system coming that looks the same but plays out differently is exciting!
I actually think Shanahan moved Paul to TE in order to get his best blocking WR on the field more along with his best pass catching WRs.
Fred Davis isn't done meeting with suitors from the AFC East. After dining with the Buffalo Bills over the weekend, the free-agent tight end is slated to visit with the New York Jets.
Davis told ProFootballCentral he plans to huddle with New York "in a couple of days," and John Keim of the Washington Examiner also reported a visit was on tap. That will happen after the Bills host the former Redskins tight end on Thursday. Washington also remains interested in re-signing Davis.
The Jets are desperate for help at the position after Dustin Keller signed a one-year deal with the Miami Dolphins. Keller was arguably New York's most consistent threat when healthy. Jeff Cumberland can't fill those shoes, but Davis -- coming off a season-ending Achilles injury -- would give t a dynamic playmaker.
The Jets, however, aren't likely to win a price war with the Bills. New York has created cap room by chopping veterans off the roster, but Gang Green has been quiet in free agency and looks like a team in a complete rebuild. Adding Davis would bring some much-needed excitement to coach Rex Ryan's flailing offense.
Yeah, I guess 5.9 million minus taxes and fees (read: agents) seems like enough to me. I know it's not generational money. I guess there's just a big disconnect for me because I would think having 2 million dollars would be enough, which he probably has after everything is taken out.
This just in...Davis met with the Bills this weekend and is planning on talking to the Jets.
Hopefully laron talks to him and gets him to sign.
Obviously I'm not an NFL player, but I would like to think that if I were there would come a point in time where money was the least of my concerns when looking for a new deal. I would rate the likelihood of the team being successful first and the likelihood of me being a successful big-time contributor second. Location/family dynamics third, and I suppose money fourth.
Davis should be, by no stretch of the imagination, a multi-millionaire at this point. Money gained by playing a sport; a game.
Leaving the redskins and going to the bills, jets, or browns just seems like an utterly stupid move at this point. He could not only be on a successful team with (what I believe will be) an elite quarter back and a (again, what I believe is) top notch coaching staff, but he could be a huge contributor in that.
You can apply that to pretty much every free agent signing. It just doesn't make sense to me. These guys already have millions of dollars and they're passing up the chance to be on a good team, or be on a team with legit super bowl chances (in general, not the redskins), to go make (what is, in the grand scheme of things) a little more money?
Seems like priorities are backwards but I guess I'm not an NFL player so I don't understand.
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