Eiffert #2 te in league this season?

[Shake n Blake]

(10-14-2015, 07:39 PM)djs7685 Wrote: Dude, really? People make so many excuses for Gresham!? What board are you reading? 93% of Gresh mentions are going overboard trashing the guy.

Keith Rivers was just bad and didn't even start a full season in his entire NFL career. He was a huge bust. At least we got a few solid years and some good blocking out of Gresham. He may end up having an unimpressive ending to his career but he's definitely done more than people like you will ever give him credit for.

I'll never understand how someone will come onto a board where any mention of a guy is bashing him and claim he gets excuses made for him. I haven't seen anyone outside of a banned troll say that he was anything more than a solid contributor that takes too much unwarranted heat from people.

What board are you reading? Up til recently, the boards were pretty split on Gresh. He has/had lots of fans on here. Many people were salty he left and probably would've preferred he started for us this year over Eifert. A lot of the same people who were bashing Eifert for being inexperienced and injury prone were also fans of Gresh. So lets not pretend that the boards have ever been one-sided on the subject.

I was debating with several non-trolls this summer about Gresh. I saw a few people predicting he'd have a career year with a different team or that the Bengals held him back with their play-calling. That's going beyond saying he was a "solid contributor". Some people truly think/thought Gresh has immense talent and is capable of being a top 10 TE. Heck over the last year or so, I saw quite a few people say Gresh was a top 10 TE.

Sure, Keith Rivers was bad. He also had plenty of folks (mostly on the boards) that didn't want to admit that. Quite a few claimed he was a victim of injuries/circumstances and that he'd probably be a big time player for the Giants. That talk didn't stop until Rivers started washing out elsewhere. 

I'd say that Gresh's career was a bit better than Rivers', but they were both overrated by some, and I have a feeling that Gresh's career outside of Cincy is going to end on a similar note. I don't think the guy was trash, but he was an average player overall, and a liability at times.