01-30-2020, 03:15 PM
(01-30-2020, 02:17 PM)bengaloo Wrote: Sample was only targeted 6 times before he got hurt. Not a big Sample size. Dont like that we took him so high, but I remember reading that his blocking could be Reggie Kelley-like once he develops. Good pick just too high.
Im for cutting Glenn and bringing in other OLmen. I do want us to sign at least one big upgrade in FA, at either G or RT. Conklin, Thuney, whoever. Just bring in someone experienced who is a legit starter to help this young OL find its way. Jordan could and should develop, hopefully Williams lives up to hype. Fred Johnson seems like a heck of a get for us. We got potential. but we need that one guy imo. The guy Cordy was signed to be and failed.
Sherff is another guy I would love for us to bring in and somewhere on here I heard we were interested in him...
(01-30-2020, 02:46 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I don't understand why a TE like Sample needed to be taken in the 2nd round when they already signed Uzomah to a multi-year deal for over $6 mill a year.
Would have rather had Josh Oliver, Dawson Knox, Kaden Smith, Isaac Nauta, Caleb Wilson, or even Foster Moreau. And all those guys went in Rd 3 or later.
As Bengaloo here says it was because Eifert was injured all the time. Of those guys I liked Moreau at the time better than
Sample but Sample was by all accounts the best blocker at TE in that draft. Also I heard a team right behind us in the 2nd
was looking at taking him, this is just something I heard at the time though.
Sample was a 4th or 5th rounder, in most Mocks before the Draft.
Think Taylor liked him for his scheme whatever the hell that was last year lol
(01-30-2020, 02:52 PM)bengaloo Wrote: The articles back then said it was Eifert insurance. He was a pretty huge question mark heading into the season
Yep.
(01-30-2020, 02:56 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I don't remember that, but I can see it. However, I don't think Sample matches up to Eifert's skill set at all, so it's a poor insurance policy.
Sample is a much better blocker that can catch, but he is no where near the Receiving threat as Eifert in his prime in 2015
was maybe the best route running TE I have ever seen. Ran routes like a WR. Eifert's injuries clearly have changed him, he
is a mere shadow of his 2015 self. But still, he catches balls and finally stayed healthy last season. Not against bringing him
back. Uzi had some good plays last year but if we want to move on from Eifert I would like to add a pass catching TE for
Burrow in the mid rounds if we take care of the O-line and LB's before that.
