All 3 Bengals TEs in final year under contract this season

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(05-09-2023, 02:16 PM)CloeHokie Wrote: Irv Smith will most likely get injured this season. That's just the facts of it. The odds of him staying healthy are below 50%.

I don't think we care at all.  Seriously.  2 years in a row there were solid group of guys in the draft. We sit back or trade up to take a Safety. I watched multiple teams last year take tight ends (multiple) then do it again this year. We say no one fell.  Go get them!!!!! We freaking need one!!!!



We easily have the worst tight end room in the nfl. Name a worse one anyone. Please. And we continue to ignore it.  We didn't even sign any UCFA. One guy I think? And the rest of the nfl keeps signing them.  Even the scraps left are being signed.  The rest of the league does value the position as we watched teams draft multiple tes even though they had plenty and took one last year.  

Couple questions for all.  

1. Do you honestly think Irv Smith stays healthy? (this isn't madden can't turn off injuries)

2. Do we have the worst tight end room in the nfl? If not please state who does.

3. Has a team ever won a super bowl with no one to speak of at tight end?

1) Personally, I don't, but even when he's been mostly healthy in a season, the most production he put up was 365 yards, which was back when Kyle Rudolph was the TE1 and primary starter. That was all the way back in 2020. He then missed all 2021 with knee surgery, and then he only played 8 games (1 start) last year. The Vikings started Johnny Mundt (who?!) over Irv Smith before Smith went down and they traded for Hockenson.

2) There are teams like the Packers who have fresh draft picks Musgrave and Kraft then Josiah Deguara at TE, but there might be more optimism in Musgrave-Kraft-Deguara compared to Smith-Sample-Asiasi. GB probably about the worst TE group I can think of other than possibly the Bengals.

3) A SB-winning team with bad TEs might be the 2013 Seahawks? They had Zach Miller and Luke Willson, neither reaching even 400 yards that season. But Miller was good in OAK before coming to SEA. Worse than that might be having to go all the way back to the 2003-2004 Patriots with Daniel Graham as their best TE with only 409 yards in 2003 and 364 yards in 2004. What do all these teams have in common though? Great defense, heavy run offense.