Draft - What do you do?

[Slapstick]

except they lost (are losing) guys in the rotation at those positions. Moreover, do you really think the team lost to the Pats** because they didn't have a TE... or because they couldn't stop Tom Brady?

They couldn't stop Brady...

Nor could they successfully engage in a shootout with him...

Take the higher rated player, period...

[JUST-PLAIN-NASTY]

They lost to the Pats cause the couldn't keep up. They couldn't convert in the red zone. They couldn't move the chains & gave Brady the ball back. They could keep the ball out of his hands or sustain drives & put points up on the board to give their defense a rest.

[feltdizz]

We lost because guys were running wide open and we got no pressure on Brady. Zero pressure. Pretty sure there was a point where Brady had 10 or 12 straight completions.

We also had had the Ball for 28 minutes. The defense was rested they just stunk up the joint.

[birtikidis]

We lost because guys were running wide open and we got no pressure on Brady. Zero pressure.

The running wide open was a bigger issue than no pressure. Brady only needed 1 second to see he had Hogan for a 40 yard td over and over again

[feltdizz]

The running wide open was a bigger issue than no pressure. Brady only needed 1 second to see he had Hogan for a 40 yard td over and over again

true, but the TD in the back of the endzone took forever to develop.

[birtikidis]

true, but the TD in the back of the endzone took forever to develop.

True, but by that point I think they were dropping everyone in coverage because we couldn't cover Timmy or Jimmy for more than .5 seconds.

[SteelerOfDeVille]

seriously - these folks act like they didn't see the first 3 quarters of what Atlanta did to them. tight coverage, with guys who could cover. good pass rush with guys who could get there quickly. not for their idiotic, over-aggressive tendencies, they win that super bowl.

[birtikidis]

seriously - these folks act like they didn't see the first 3 quarters of what Atlanta did to them. tight coverage, with guys who could cover. good pass rush with guys who could get there quickly. not for their idiotic, over-aggressive tendencies, they win that super bowl.

I didn't watch the Super Bowl. So, if you were referring to me, I wasn't acting like I didn't see the first three quarters.

[Captain Lemming]

They are just as important as any non QB position you want to throw.

TE is a need. I don't think they are confident in Green at all.

We just got beat by a team that was MISSING the best tight end in the league.
New England is ALWAYS good.
They tend to win superbowls when they have excellent secondary players.

In fact has anybody noticed the trend that the position that ALWAYS has an all pro player on the Superbowl champion is CORNERBACK.
Ravens are the last Superbowl winning team without a top corner.

[Captain Lemming]

They couldn't stop Brady...

Nor could they successfully engage in a shootout with him...

Take the higher rated player, period...

The Pats closed the season scoring 30 plus in 6 out of 7 games.....without the best tight end in the league.

The single common factor in the LAST FOUR Super Bowl champs....including BOTH NE wins?
Elite corners, every last one of them. Even a bigger common factor than elite QBs

[RuthlessBurgher]

We just got beat by a team that was MISSING the best tight end in the league.
New England is ALWAYS good.
They tend to win superbowls when they have excellent secondary players.

In fact has anybody noticed the trend that the position that ALWAYS has an all pro player on the Superbowl champion is CORNERBACK.
Ravens are the last Superbowl winning team without a top corner.

New England let Logan Ryan walk, flirted with trading Malcolm Butler to New Orleans, and opted to pay top dollar to a Buffalo corner instead. That tells me that Belichick himself didn't believe his corners were All Pro caliber.