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because we are going to need one real soon. Anybody got a name that could help. I say Kevin Boss if healthy, and maybe Evan Moore. Hell if Keller is done for the season then I don't know if this team can recover. The pre-season is B. S., and that Texans player is a little bitch for hitting our man low.
Time for our young guys to step up, Sims, Egnew and Clay.......NEXT!
And if losing Keller dooms our season, then we were never good to begin with, it sucks but we'll be alright.
Clay is a physical clone of Keller. He is the most likely to fill the role but he needs to be more consistent.
So much for the idea of getting both on the field at the same time.
This puts more pressure on Wallace, Hartline and more notably Brandon Gibson. They are going ot have to pick up the slack. The good new is that Wallace seems to be ready to perform.
It is unlikely that we will be able to replace Keller. More likely that we replace our #3 TE as the other two move up.
I'm not and never have been convinced Keller was the answer to one of our problems. His rep has always been that he couldn't block your grandmother, and a TE must be able to block once in a while, or he becomes useless as a decoy.
Jeff Fuller is 6'4 220 lbs, he's probably never played TE at any level in his entire life, and certainly hasn't been asked to line up and block a 270+lb DE or 240+lb LB and some of you guys want to convert him to TE 2 weeks before the season starts?
OMG.
This isn't Madden football guys.
Besides, we ALREADY have a project like that on our roster in Egnew we don't need another, especially when there is no way on God's green earth he'd be ready to play TE in the NFL in two freakin weeks.
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> then it's off to sign some reject or has been.
Yes. Its unfortunate, but that's what happens when you lose a starter to a season ending injury. You either replace from within or you look to catch lightning in a bottle with a veteran player who is on the street.
Their will be alot of decent TE's getting released or teams looking to trade them. I think we are going to get a decent stop gap for at least this year.
First of all -- for those who can remember -- consider what Shannon Sharpe accomplished in his transition from WR to TE. Now keep in mind the available "vitamins" have only gotten BETER since Shannon went on his notorious aggressive "nutritional jihad."
Heck, with a bit of dietary planning and anaerobic strategy, Fuller could add 20-25lbs of lean muscle mass by turkey day!
It can happen. All you've got to do is believe!
Tomorrow is ALWAYS more awesome.
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Charles Clay is not the answer for the TE position. The man graduated from Tulsa, but the only job he could get before waiting for the draft was cutting grass on a riding lawnmower. Let's just say Clay did not get a degree in rocket science just saying. Sometimes you can be under intelligent for a position like Clay, and cost your team with mental mistakes like Clay. We Need a smart Athletic TE, and this week I bet wet get one.