10-19-2017, 10:23 PM
I'm not going into sources because there are many all over internet to Google or whatever. One says Eifert has played his last game as a Bengal and that makes sense. He becomes a Free Agent after this season and not much reason to keep a guy that hasn't played much in 2 years and was often injured before that. I would say add TE to a Bengals need in 2018 draft. Maybe not Round 1, but certainly an early round. When the Bengals took Eifert round 1, they really needed a WR and had Gresham. Bengals said the top WR's were off the board but Eifert although a TE was also a WR type out of Notre Dame. Yes, he could get down field like a Bob Trumpy, but he got injured more at TE than Trumpy. Trumpy could actually block, catch in the middle and it took 2 or 3 tacklers sometimes to bring him down. Eifert was never more than a WR that lined up at TE, but he got real injured. So with Gresham long gone and Eifert as good as gone the Bengals could use a real TE. Bengals could use more blocking on which we all agree. Instead of a WR type at TE, the Bengals really need a TE that can block, has big TE size to take on NFL defenses, and can catch. Maybe more of a tight end type than a wide receiver type. A true TE at TE. I might mention Dan Ross in Super Bowl years could block and catch. Look, an NFL TE takes a pounding in the NFL and many of these WR's put at TE just can't take the beatings. Bengals should really go for a true TE that can block, take the in the middle catch hit pounding, and can also be a TD option in the red zone with some size, say 6'5" to 6'8" that weighs 260 or 270 pounds to be an O Lineman but not a 300 pound tubby. Basketball has guys this size with speed and I'm sure there are some true TE's with this size and speed to be able to not be injured all the time as an NFL TE. Plus we play in the AFC North where you need run blocking out of a TE, and you have to man up big against Steelers and Ravens and Browns. Often this is a big boy, hard hitting, cold weather division of many Super Bowl trophies. Steelers and Ravens have had success with big tough blocking TE's that can catch some. An AFC NORTH TE must be tall, big and able to block. Not a division for WR types at TE because Ohio, Pittsburg and Baltimore ain't the track field West Coast. I have seen Steelers and Ravens draft these Zach Miller types and I just say, " OH NO ", because they were monsters. Big huge O Linemen that could run block, pass block but also a load to tackle if they caught the ball. The idea Bengals might have to deal with such a monster the next 10 years was scary. That's the type monster TE we need to be looking for. Just a big tough run and pass blocker with O lineman size that can catch. Let Steelers and Ravens deal with our monster for a change.
1968 Bengal Fan
