01-06-2017, 08:03 PM
(01-06-2017, 06:56 PM)kevin Wrote: If you are asking if we should draft a TE early, I would say heck no, using heck instead of the H word I first thought.....We have used a lot of recent drafts on CB for Joseph, Hall, Kirkpatrick, Dennard, Jackson and TE in Gresham and Eifert. ...Looking at the first round there are linebackers this year that have not been there in recent drafts. We have needed to draft a linebacker and now, this year, Alabama has not one but two good ones experts have as early first round. We need to take advantage of this rare opportunity to get a quality linebacker, this draft while there are a couple. ........I would hope Eifert isn't that fragile of a TE. Look, even Gronk had injuries at TE of late. I thought Uzomah filled in well. It's not his fault Nugent became so awful. ..........I say no top round CB or TE because we have overlooked other positions in recent drafts. Mostly linebacker. You have to go back a ways to Rivers and Maualuga and it shows on the field. Harrison, Hawk and Dansby were old player band aids due to lack of draft talent at linebacker. This year when there is top talent, we dare not blow it by passing on linebacker. We also need O line help, but I'm thinking second round there.
Okay after trying to decipher this wall of posts with lots of random periods in it this is what I got.
Why are we comparing CBs to TEs? 5 CBs in Marvins tenure compared to 2 isn't comparable.
Both Gronk and Eifert are fragile and that's why they brought in Bennet. If it's good enough for the Pats I think it would be a good idea here too.
Uzomah drops too many passes. Maybe he will get better but we saw what it was like without Eifert and it wasn't pretty. I'm not sure how Nugent fits into the equation but sure go blame him for Uzomah's stone hands.
Drafting Rivers didn't help our linebackers and Maulauga has been a mere role player for the team. So those aren't shining examples on why we need to take a linebacker that early in the draft.
You know we actually can use 2 TEs at the same time right? Considering how bad we were in the redzone this year that would be a great help for us.
