to decide where he is going to play. What is going to be our weapons in the Red Zone. I mean Wallace and his speed is not much use down there. Fasano is gone, we need a big body to catch the ball so , where are we getting that from ?
I would love one but you just do not go out into the backyard and pick a TE off the tree and I sure hope we are not going to depend on wonder boy, Michael Egnew.
We still need a big body down there though. Love Hartline but it would be nice to have someone a taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad bigger LOL
Egnew is on a steady and comprehensive diet of Deer Antler Spray. He will be placed inside a cocoon of bacon and beer in the next few weeks. He will emerge thereafter as a Rob Gronkowski clone, but nothing can be done about his drawing skills.
Channing Crowder Likes this Guy in the draft, he said it on QAM Big physical, reminds some of Gates, large catching radius and good hands. [video=youtube;cgAoHNx_6VU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAoHNx_6VU[/video]
We were a pretty good red zone team last season. Mike Sherman's red zone play design got progressively better as the season aged. I'm expecting us to potentially try to do this with scheme over personnel. Jared Cook for all the talk has only 2 more career TD's than Hartline in his career spanning the same time. Our ability to score from all areas of the field, IMO, was our biggest weakness last season. With Wallace stretching coverage outward, that could very well give Hartline enough time to get back up after he trips and run it in.
To be honest, I never even heard of Jared Cook until it was being reported he wanted to be tagged as a WR not a TE. Other then that ? never heard of him.
Yes it did get better but we never used the middle of the field, or rarely did. I watched some games, then went home and watchedd the recording and teams were leaving the middle of the field completely open for us. Did you notice that ?
With Wallace, we won't need to worry about the red zone as we'll be scoring more TD's from outside the 20.
Draft Michael Williams, TE from Alabama, in the 5-6th round. 6'7'' 270 pounds, good hands, good jumper, not fast at all but can create space in short areas. Also a great blocker.
I have no evidence of Patterson being a red zone threat but I'd bet my livelihood, as long as that most of which dreaded plays I despise ( jump ball- why give the cb a 50/50 chance when you can acually run a designed play in your favor) is not called, Patterson can be a beast for that. Quik 3 step in/out, thread the needle this guy will catch it traffic and all.
Imo, best redzone threat in the draft, bar none, that height, that physicality, that vertical, that radius, that box out ability, let him run hitches inside the five all day..
according to schefter we are making a strong push to resign jake long, don' t know if i would like that
Well now its being reported a deal with Keller is close and nothing coming out of Mudville ( St. Louis ) and Jake has been there going on 3 days now. Perhaps Miami was given a chance to match whatever St. Louis offered, turned it down and used the money to up the ante on Keller ? I know, I am trying to goose butterflys now. LOL
The Keller deal is done...one year...I can live with that...but still would like to see something along the lines of an OT. I guess Winston is still hurt or something cause he's not even getting sniffs...Long is in eLongated dealings with StL....heck maybe, the reason it's taking so Long is that we are involved with him too ?? That would be nice...
Right now I feel like CB is our biggest concern. We really don't have a single legit starter on the roster IMO. Marshall due to his back, Nolan due to his poor play last season, Wilson who looks more like a safety to me, and the rest were waiver wire pick ups. Some have suggested that Miami feels Martin can handle LT, if that is true, why are they making such a late hard push to resign Long? If not true then they should just grab the best free agent RT available and move on.
http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/4712/jake-long Guess the rams couldnt sign him after all that wooing. Hopefully this report is right and he comes back to finish his career in Miami.
You so sure about that? Wallace RedZone TD's: 2009: 1 out of 6 2010: 1 out of 10 2011: 3 out of 8 2012: 3 out of 8 Of those 8 RedZone TD's: 3 of them came from 7 yards or less. 6 came from 15 yards of less. So 6 out of 32 TD receptions came from 15 yards or less. So he can do it in close.