TE group

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

That's why you gotta be careful about those early takes. Pretty sure there are a lot of dusty ass Kelvin Benjamin jersey's out there.

KB was always an anomaly to me and hard to judge. He never looked the same after his knee injury and his mom's passing. Grief does strange things to people. I know some people who've bounced right back and I've known some that it just tore apart and it changed their personality and life perspective. He was admittedly in a dark place after that and it just kept going downhill. I always thought that grief may have played a bigger role than we think, or it may not have. That's just one of those I shake my head and say man, I just don't know.

[kungfoodude]

3 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

The only place a game breaking can't miss TE is available, is in the 1st round of the draft.  Yes, you can hit on them from anywhere else, but even once you're in the 2nd round it's by no means a game changing TE that you're not going to miss on.  So there's no way I'd be on board with a TE in the 2nd or 3rd round of the draft either, not with who we already have.

So, if we're sitting there in the 1st round next year, there is no way a Bowers type of TE falls to us while at the same time not having any other available players there at positions of a bigger need, particularly on defense.

I mean this is not only demonstrably false, it's laughable.

Most of the top NFL TE's over the past decade were not 1st round draft picks.

[tukafan21]

5 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean this is not only demonstrably false, it's laughable.

Most of the top NFL TE's over the past decade were not 1st round draft picks.

I wasn't saying that's the only way to get one.

My post was in direct response to the "if you have the opportunity to get a game breaking TE, you take them"

I was just saying that if you're taking a TE in the 2nd or 3rd round, you're just hoping they can become that game breaking TE.  The ones that you KNOW will become that, are the guys like Bowers or Warren who go in the early 1st round.

We just took mid round TEs that both show solid potential, I don't see how taking a TE in the 1st would make sense over the other available players.  And taking one in even the 2nd or 3rd just seems like to big of a risk at that position when we have so many other needs.

[strato]

2 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

KB was always an anomaly to me and hard to judge. He never looked the same after his knee injury and his mom's passing. Grief does strange things to people. I know some people who've bounced right back and I've known some that it just tore apart and it changed their personality and life perspective. He was admittedly in a dark place after that and it just kept going downhill. I always thought that grief may have played a bigger role than we think, or it may not have. That's just one of those I shake my head and say man, I just don't know.

Yeah grief. Too damned familiar with it It will wreck a person  

We forget about guys have lives outside of Sunday. A player going through relationship issues even, can be really affected. Divorce. or something good like a new baby right when you are trying to get your rest and get ready to play? No sleep. Tired all the time.
All kinds of reasons for players to be ‘off’. 
I hate hearing that a player has a newborn in football season lol.