03-13-2022, 11:03 AM
(03-13-2022, 01:05 AM)samhain Wrote: We may sign one or the other, but I strongly doubt we sign both. We have a 1a, a 1b and one of the finest slot receivers in the league. Spending upwards of 16 mil on the TE position would be totally insane.
Boyd and Gronk go hand in hand. You're not turning down Gronk on say a 7M deal if he really wants to play with Burrow. Boyd could be the means to get Collins, keeping the high picks. Still negotiating with CJ gives you a dynamic two TE attack in light of our OL and red zone woes in the post season. Change how you use the position rather than seeing it as 16M towards how the position has been used already.
You could argue that WR is the deepest position available in both the draft and FA. There are a lot of 5M range vets that can be a band aid on the way to having RT fixed. You can also move Chase all around still especially if an average vet is descent at both the slot and outside. Burrow loves using an empty backfield, so when Mixon/Evans line up wide in this set they're still a threat to motion back and run out of a 2 TE set with an improved line. I like Boyd, but I like capitalizing on this more.
