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I believe our biggest need is a stud TE that we can count on in the zone

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Brees had his and so does Brady and Manning. Who do we have? We need a guy that we can count on to get 8 to 10 TDs a year. A guy Tanny can depend on. A guy you can go to when you need a 1st down to close a game out. We need to stop drafting TEs in the middle rounds and take one high once and for all. A TE would really help the whole team out. Get 1st downs and keep our defense off the field.
 
Danny said:
Brees had his and so does Brady and Manning. Who do we have? We need a guy that we can count on to get 8 to 10 TDs a year. A guy Tanny can depend on. A guy you can go to when you need a 1st down to close a game out. We need to stop drafting TEs in the middle rounds and take one high once and for all. A TE would really help the whole team out. Get 1st downs and keep our defense off the field.
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I'm all for it.

But elite TE's are beyond rare.

Maybe we pray to the football gods Julius Thomas hits the FA market and start throwing money at him.
 
A stud TE, WR, or hybrid type of player! I truly big redzone target with freakish athleticism.
 
I'll settle for a head coach who wants to win those close games.
 
No elite TE in this draft...and we have bigger issues at other positions. If Finnegan is out for an extended period of time one of those positions is going to rear it's ugly head soon.

The depth at CB was always a concern for me. It's going to get magnified now with Michael Thomas out and Finnegan out....oh and Michael Thomas > Jimmy Wilson.
 
Other than a top 5 QB if we had a choice of any player I'd take a top TE
 
We've had chance after chance to hit on a athletic TE. Instead we watched Denver take TWO of them a few years ago (Thomas and Green). We took the stiff and stupid Michael Egnew and that was a complete disaster . . . . when you draft a guy to be your seam threat/redzone threat TE and his top 10 biggest plays as a Dolphin are blocking plays, that is a big problem.

I'll say the Lynch kid was a promising prospect, and I'm sure he'd be making an impact had he been available this year . . . so hopefully he comes back strong in 2015.

I like both Clay and Hoskins, but they are essentially the same player, and our roster is full of average sized WR's . . . Sims is like the only guy with some size but he's a blocking TE. It's a clear need and needs to be addressed once and for all.

Damn is David Martin healthy?
 
yes well a Gronk is rather hard to find
 
TE would be ideal but a red zone win WR is going to help a ton as well…and there are a few available in this draft.
 
How many TEs have come out in the draft the last few years that everyone believed would be that "elite" TE, and they're all pretty much just guys. The funny part is, besides Gronk, most of the top elite TEs pretty much came out of nowhere (Gates - undrafted, Julius Thomas - 4th round, Jimmy Graham - 3rd round). Even the other top TEs in the league, outside of Vernon Davis / Jermaine Gresham and Martellus Bennett who were 1st and 2nd round picks respectively, look at the others: Jordan Cameron - 4th round, Jason Witten - 3rd round, Charles Clay - 4th round.

Given the production of some of the elite - 2nd tier TE's, these guys would've been re-drafted in the 1st round. You see how many TEs we've seen drafted highly the last few years in an attempt to replicate these results. It seems to me that the personnel guys in the league haven't figured out how to identify an elite TE. We got pretty lucky with Charles Clay I think. He didn't hold on to that possibly game-sealing TD, but he's usually pretty sure-handed.
 
I still think the interior of the Oline and CB are the top priorities in the offseason.
 
NYPhinzFan said:
How many TEs have come out in the draft the last few years that everyone believed would be that "elite" TE, and they're all pretty much just guys. The funny part is, besides Gronk, most of the top elite TEs pretty much came out of nowhere (Gates - undrafted, Julius Thomas - 4th round, Jimmy Graham - 3rd round). Even the other top TEs in the league, outside of Vernon Davis / Jermaine Gresham and Martellus Bennett who were 1st and 2nd round picks respectively, look at the others: Jordan Cameron - 4th round, Jason Witten - 3rd round, Charles Clay - 4th round.

Given the production of some of the elite - 2nd tier TE's, these guys would've been re-drafted in the 1st round. You see how many TEs we've seen drafted highly the last few years in an attempt to replicate these results. It seems to me that the personnel guys in the league haven't figured out how to identify an elite TE. We got pretty lucky with Charles Clay I think. He didn't hold on to that possibly game-sealing TD, but he's usually pretty sure-handed.
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But he's a jack of all trades, master of none. He's short, he's an H-Back playing the role of a pure TE. He has been one of Ireland's best draft picks and he's a solid option on this team but I think people want that big time athlete to matchup with Clay at TE. They definitely don't grow on trees and our GM hasn't really been given the chance to draft one, and even with that said, he took one a good sized one in the 5th round this year and brought in a guy like Hoskins to compete.

The philosophy difference between Hickey and Ireland have been so abundantly clear after just half a season. One is in tune with today's NFL, one was stuck in a old school Parcells mindset.
 
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