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1 hour ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

We will sign Cole Kmet

Why? Feels like we got a whole TE crew of almost Kmets. Loveland surpassed Kmet easy and relegated Kmet to Tremble like stats. Kmet’s decent years were because of volume. Kmet had over 90 targets twice in his career. Tremble’s career high in targets is 37. Tremble could produce Kmet numbers with the same volume so why would you ever go for Kmet? Loveland or Bowers type studs, go for it. Meh TEs, we’ve got plenty.

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31 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

Why? Feels like we got a whole TE crew of almost Kmets. Loveland surpassed Kmet easy and relegated Kmet to Tremble like stats. Kmet’s decent years were because of volume. Kmet had over 90 targets twice in his career. Tremble’s career high in targets is 37. Tremble could produce Kmet numbers with the same volume so why would you ever go for Kmet? Loveland or Bowers type studs, go for it. Meh TEs, we’ve got plenty.

Kmet is better than just 'meh'.   Mayer took a back seat to Bowers and is another TE that would relish a chance to start again.  Sanders, Temble and Evans is a better group of TEs than we've fielded during the Ian Thomas era, but it's far from stacked.  That's the problem, our TE room has sucked for so long now that  being 'better than crap' is apparently good enough--which it is not.

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1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

Kmet is better than just 'meh'.   Mayer took a back seat to Bowers and is another TE that would relish a chance to start again.  Sanders, Temble and Evans is a better group of TEs than we've fielded during the Ian Thomas era, but it's far from stacked.  That's the problem, our TE room has sucked for so long now that  being 'better than crap' is apparently good enough--which it is not.

AND the last time we took a TE from Chicago that hadn't quite lived up to draft status it was Greg Olsen... bring this on nah

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6 hours ago, 45catfan said:

Kmet is better than just 'meh'.   Mayer took a back seat to Bowers and is another TE that would relish a chance to start again.  Sanders, Temble and Evans is a better group of TEs than we've fielded during the Ian Thomas era, but it's far from stacked.  That's the problem, our TE room has sucked for so long now that  being 'better than crap' is apparently good enough--which it is not.

No he’s not. Look at this actual production. Is he getting anywhere near 90 targets with us?

Kmet’s career is 288-2939 and 21 TDs on 399 targets.

Tremble (the definition of meh) has 112-1031 and 11 TDs on 168 targets.

Prorated to 399 targets, Tremble has 266-2448 and 26 TDs. Kmet isn’t making us much better at all. We just don’t use TEs that much and we don’t throw the ball overall as much. Kmet isn’t Greg Olsen.

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11 hours ago, WhoKnows said:

No he’s not. Look at this actual production. Is he getting anywhere near 90 targets with us?

Kmet’s career is 288-2939 and 21 TDs on 399 targets.

Tremble (the definition of meh) has 112-1031 and 11 TDs on 168 targets.

Prorated to 399 targets, Tremble has 266-2448 and 26 TDs. Kmet isn’t making us much better at all. We just don’t use TEs that much and we don’t throw the ball overall as much. Kmet isn’t Greg Olsen.

IDK get this logic, and maybe it's just me not having enough caffeine kick in, so my apologies in advance, WhoKnows.

Kmet was drafted in 2020 and Tremble in 2021. Though Kmet has been in the league a year longer, he has more than doubled receptions/yards and doubled TD production in only 17 less games. If Tremble played in 2020, I don't see him going for 176-1908-10TD to bring him in line with Kmet. 

They are in different TE tiers, for sure. Kmet would be Bryce's new Thielen. I would argue Kmet is not elite but he would be the best TE we've had since Greg. 

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2 hours ago, Soul Rebel said:

IDK get this logic, and maybe it's just me not having enough caffeine kick in, so my apologies in advance, WhoKnows.

Kmet was drafted in 2020 and Tremble in 2021. Though Kmet has been in the league a year longer, he has more than doubled receptions/yards and doubled TD production in only 17 less games. If Tremble played in 2020, I don't see him going for 176-1908-10TD to bring him in line with Kmet. 

They are in different TE tiers, for sure. Kmet would be Bryce's new Thielen. I would argue Kmet is not elite but he would be the best TE we've had since Greg. 

Tremble is in an offense that doesn’t run a ton of TE routes and frankly doesn’t throw the ball much. What I was trying to show is that Kmet only has better stats because he has 399 targets to 168 targets for Tremble. There’s a reason why Loveland was drafted and took over as the starter. Kmet is just a guy and isn’t much more productive per target than Tremble. He doesn’t improve us if he comes here and is barely noticeable only getting 40-50 targets. Do you think he’ll get more targets than our WRs in a run first offense? Can he even run block well?

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