News: Simi Fehoko Is Potentially Our New TE

[conner01]

That all sounds good, but adding 20 pounds then playing with your hand in the dirt and being a blocker is asking alot....most TE who are actual TEs can't block

I don’t think he’s gonna be playing with his hands in the first very often since few of our TE’s do
He’s not gonna be the starting TE but he will still have to block some and in obvious run downs we many times bring in a linemen to play TE
Most of the blocking he’s gonna be doing is standing up and with proper technique he could keep his man out of the play
Jarwin and Schultz aren’t bad blockers because they are too small, they are bad blockers because they use poor technique to block and at this point in their careers they are what they are

 

[buybuydandavis]

https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/.amp...per-contract-simi-fehoko-reveals-his-new-role

I like the idea. He’s too slow to be a every down WR.. McCarthy wants him to put on weight and become a WR/TE hybrid.

Translation: You just don't cut it at WR. But maybe you could replace Noah Brown. Yep. That's your upside in the NFL. Now learn how to block!

 

[buybuydandavis]

Meh. Like we need another TE that can't block.

Low ceiling player aspiring to be the next Noah Brown.

It's a good living while it lasts.

 

[Bullflop]

I want to see what Fehoko has to offer, we have a 5th invested is all, so there was interest and would be really cool if a few of these players started stepping up, Jerry would love it.

I'm mainly interested in seeing what Fehoko has to offer as a WR. That's been his calling card all along. As a TE, he'd be no more than a project who is starting from scratch. I hope the Cowboys draft a TE with college credentials that indicate a reasonably promising future. It's an element that should be added, with both Shultz's and Jarwin's futures being in doubt. Perhaps Sean McKeon will step up, although it remains to be seen.

 

[Gaede]

Translation: You just don't cut it at WR. But maybe you could replace Noah Brown. Yep. That's your upside in the NFL. Now learn how to block!

Exactly what this is

 

[ghst187]

Fehoko isn't slow. 4.37 speed. Don't mind us considering him as a receiving tight end, though, because he doesn't seem to have the shiftiness needed at receiver. He's kind of a one-speed guy.

I saw that and it perplexed me. If you watch his game tape he doesn’t play at that speed. He doesn’t get in and out of cuts quickly and he rarely gets any separation. But I guess he can burn a 40? I view him as nothing more than a cheaper Noah Brown. Hope he can play STs well

 

[blueblood70]

can they make any moves without ridiculous responses, tall teams do this.smh

fans don't build teams and the posts on here that seemingly have egomaniacal fans believing they know how to assemble, build, and run a 10 billion dollar sports team better is just laughable, insane laugh not Haha funny laugh.50% of te post here have so many internet gms genius money men instructing and judging every move by the Jonses as if somehow, they aren't just little ants scurrying around the intent behind keyboard.

just stop the nonsense you aren't better at contracts and running a sports team, you just are NOT..90% of us just look at post by the 10% that think they somehow are debating from position of truth and reality, but you are just flat out clueless.

the insane trade posts, cap post, cut post, what they should or shouldn't pay players in FAS etc , hirings, firings and well the oldy but goody play calls and coaching.

give it up.I can handle post game debates on games but the business side of football stuff is so annoying trying to judge a ownership group who own 4-5 businesses all multimillion to billion-dollar ventures and some of the keyboard geniuses think you can do it better..

this isnt madden or F just give it up!

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

That's funny because during training camp I was saying I think he needs to be in better condition and lose of few lbs as he looked a little soft.

 

[Whyjerry]

Why not draft a player to play the position he was drafted to play? I can guarantee they didn’t draft him to be a TE.

 

[kskboys]

Fehoko isn't slow. 4.37 speed. Don't mind us considering him as a receiving tight end, though, because he doesn't seem to have the shiftiness needed at receiver. He's kind of a one-speed guy.

Hooooold the phone. Lacks shiftiness? How do people not know that shiftiness/short area quickness is absolutely instrumental for a TE? Holy smokes, tell me you guys know this. What do you think is necessary for a TE to stay in front of the guy he's blocking? That would be "shiftiness". That "shiftiness" is also how a TE gets open. Holy Larry, really?

What do you call a TE who lacks "shiftiness"? You call him Gavin Escobar.

Sheeesh.

 

[OGCowboy]

I know they all do it to a point but seems to me this organization is always trying to transform players into something they’re not.....

 

[buybuydandavis]

Hooooold the phone. Lacks shiftiness? How do people not know that shiftiness/short area quickness is absolutely instrumental for a TE? Holy smokes, tell me you guys know this. What do you think is necessary for a TE to stay in front of the guy he's blocking? That would be "shiftiness". That "shiftiness" is also how a TE gets open. Holy Larry, really?

What do you call a TE who lacks "shiftiness"? You call him Gavin Escobar.

Sheeesh.

Sounds like another long strider. Probably has a place on special teams.

 

[fivetwos]

Translation: You just don't cut it at WR. But maybe you could replace Noah Brown. Yep. That's your upside in the NFL. Now learn how to block!

Outstanding. That's all it means.

 

[blueblood70]

Why not draft a player to play the position he was drafted to play? I can guarantee they didn’t draft him to be a TE.

hey Landry why did you make Randy Manster white switch positions? Hey Quinn why would you force Parsons to play DE not middle LB? deebo Samules playing RB a lot when he was drafted as WR? for 75+ years all teams occasionally do this with player its normal umm kkk

 

[Loso86]

I don’t think he’s gonna be playing with his hands in the first very often since few of our TE’s do
He’s not gonna be the starting TE but he will still have to block some and in obvious run downs we many times bring in a linemen to play TE
Most of the blocking he’s gonna be doing is standing up and with proper technique he could keep his man out of the play
Jarwin and Schultz aren’t bad blockers because they are too small, they are bad blockers because they use poor technique to block and at this point in their careers they are what they are

Yea and the are not very strong,had to ask a wr converted TE to block better than the TE. But that's 1 issue with our offense. Let's bring in all these big guys so either teams No we HAVE to be running or we get stupid and try to playaction with 1 WR and 1 route

 

[kskboys]

I haven't seen much of him but what I did see I was not impressed. He dropped the balls thrown to him and struggled to get open. I guess he could be a cheap alternative as a backup TE. Is he a good special teams player?

Backup TE's are there for their blocking ability.

 

[kskboys]

- If Simi now considered a project for TE ,.. then i considered that whole WR project a failed experiment.
And then now questioned why he was literally carried on the 53 roster the entire year,.. instead of the Practice Squad.

- My hope is that they'd get him with a WR guru coach in the offseason and extensively work with him with agility drills, techniques - per footwork, hip-shoulder movements, working on
bent- stances, and foot placement etc. whereas he can be more explosive coming off the line and in press jam situations.
he's doesn't seem like the most fluid and explosive coming in and out of breaks. basically too much of a str8 liner.

- But the offseason with extensive time is the perfect time to work with him on those flaws.

- Even as a project TE, it's gonna be the same difficult task of getting him off the line and coming in and out of breaks -cuts ...
And what does that say if we have given up on him that quickly after one year .. ??

Straightlinish is a physical trait, not something you can develop instrumentally. Improve a bit, sure, but not a great deal.

 

[mardwin]

He’s not a great route runner
But I was speaking more to the fact we found a way to use him

I completely agree with you, they should have transitioned him to a hybrid tight-end role years ago. Noah has a body type similar to Jordan Reed ex Commanders.

 

[quickccc]

Straightlinish is a physical trait, not something you can develop instrumentally. Improve a bit, sure, but not a great deal.

Odds are stacked against it, (being coached up per agility drills, to be more flexible, agile) but it may not be out of the question.
- It's a reason why the Cowboys took a WR prospect from a big school with such size/speed ratio.
- Just as it's a reason why such a size/speed freak athlete from a big school also slipped so far in the late rounds.

 

[quickccc]

Why not draft a player to play the position he was drafted to play? I can guarantee they didn’t draft him to be a TE.

- i also too don't believe Simi was drafted to be a H-back TE)
i tend to believe they could not resist such a size/speed product in the late rounds, as to what if they get if they could coach him up into a WR works.

- They apparently thought so much of Simi (per his potential) that they did not even risk him him to 53 man waivers or practice squad possibilities.

- But something also must have happen, after only just one year of him at WR, for the team to now want re-direct, bulk him up from 237 to 250/255 lbs
teach and mold him into learning TE routes, nuisances and learning how to block in-line.
Basically they are going the path-direction of ala Raiders TE Darren Waller, WR to TE conversion.