nerdmann
5 years ago

Barely heard about him because he has played for a decade with the Jags, who have been horrible for most of the time he has been there... also because he hasn't put up much yardage... last time he's gotten to 400 yards was 2012.

Some will argue, he doesn't put up yardage because the Jags OL has sucked so much that he has had to help them out so often (which has some truth to it), but he's also had his problems with catching the ball... and it just seems the Jags haven't thrown the ball towards their TE much... it's always the back-up options.

Lewis has made his living blocking, and fake blocking before going out on a route... and guys forgetting about him, then he gets a favorable match-up and he's open. Rodgers will certainly know when to look at him as a favorable match-up quicker now.



Also did TE just go from a weakness to a strength? And Graham/Kendricks might be able to help out at WR sometimes... if WR needs help.

Originally Posted by: beast 



He averaged like 13 yards per catch last year.

This is going to help stabilize the right side of our line. It is now between Kendricks and Michael Clark for the #3 spot.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”
beast
5 years ago

He averaged like 13 yards per catch last year.

This is going to help stabilize the right side of our line. It is now between Kendricks and Michael Clark for the #3 spot.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

Except, Clark is going to be getting the #4 WR spot 👍 ... and so it'll be 3rd TE vs 7th WR... and looks like the 3rd TE might win now.
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Nonstopdrivel
5 years ago

Except, Clark is going to be getting the #4 WR spot 👍

Originally Posted by: beast 


That is some nerdesque level of optimism. 😂

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nerdmann
5 years ago

Except, Clark is going to be getting the #4 WR spot 👍 ... and so it'll be 3rd TE vs 7th WR... and looks like the 3rd TE might win now.

Originally Posted by: beast 



He’s gotta prove he can run routes well enough to be a WR. He was pretty raw last year. TE doesn’t require that same level of route refinement. Might be a way for him to see the field, running down the seam.
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TheKanataThrilla
5 years ago
Assuming the pricetag comes in quite nice this is a great signing. My only negative is what becomes of the young TE prospects. I was hoping Byrd could make the jump this year and be a non-PS guy. Our TEs are quite old at the moment. Hope we can keep at least one young TE on the roster to develop and gain real game experience.
beast
5 years ago

That is some nerdesque level of optimism. 😂

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 

🤣 Well it was to nerd, but yes high optimism. But I thought Clark looked surprisingly good in the last two games... looked like he might of been developing faster than the other young WRs (of course that's a small sample).

He’s gotta prove he can run routes well enough to be a WR. He was pretty raw last year. TE doesn’t require that same level of route refinement. Might be a way for him to see the field, running down the seam.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

If you said they don't require the same level of route refinement to 🇲🇲, I bet he'd 😂 in your face 😁. But still TEs have a lot of other stuff to learn and Clark would be even further behind on those than he is WR.

I thought Clark showed better at WR the end of last season than Davis did.
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beast
5 years ago

Assuming the pricetag comes in quite nice this is a great signing. My only negative is what becomes of the young TE prospects. I was hoping Byrd could make the jump this year and be a non-PS guy. Our TEs are quite old at the moment. Hope we can keep at least one young TE on the roster to develop and gain real game experience.

Originally Posted by: TheKanataThrilla 



I very much agree with you, that I was hoping they could get a young TE to develop, but it feels like the Packers had a ton of developmental TEs... and none of them have developed. With all due respect to the Packers young TEs, while I haven't had much faith in developing a TE lately.

Though that also seems like a league wide thing, more TEs seem to be struggling to develop for what ever reason, some have suggested it has to do partly with spread offenses, and not using TEs as much or in the same way.
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isocleas2
5 years ago
Good signing, maybe the position with the least depth got 2 seasoned vets this offseason. As others have said the internal development strategy hasn't worked so might as well try something else.
beast
5 years ago

I assume this means that someone is getting dropped from the 90-man roster, since the addition of Lewis

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 



I think the corresponding move is this
DT Filipo Mokofisi placed on reserve/retired list

Since he's on the reserve/retired list, I don't think he counts as being on the 90 man roster no more.
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