Sam LaPorta

Dallas had to of known he wasn't going to fall that far.
Seemed like based off the excerpts from the draft, they weren't considering a TE in the first.

Schoon lost a lot of valuable reps in camp which didn't help his start for the regular season.
 
yeah LaPorta has looked really good. That offense is going to be nasty with Jameson WIliams back. I was surprised to hear he was the number 1 TE on our board, but seems like he's worth every bit of praise.

Sidenote. I only casually watched the game last night, but didn't see or hear of Darnell Washington all game after he was reportedly all-world in training camp.
 
LaPorta has had the best start of the rookie TEs. Kincaid and Musgrave have 11 catches each and been OK. Mayer hasn't done much but that Raiders offense is dreadful. Washington was always going to be a project. Schoon? I still have questions about that pick.
 
stilltheguru said:
Most this board wanted Kincaid and laughed when I said LaPorta was top tight end. Cz a funny place
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can you show where you said that? not doubting or arguing, i'd just like to read those opinions. i definitely thought kincaid was the guy
 
Our tight ends don't yet have the experience/nuance to find soft spots in defenses. They often run into coverage.
Schoon doesn't stretch the field or scare defenses (at least not yet).
The first two draft picks look very pedestrian.
LaPorta would have been great, but he was gone.
 
Just want to say, that receiving is easy to learn in the NFL and blocking is hard.

In the last 5 years, WR has been the fastest-starting position in football. The handful of TEs who've got off to fast starts in the NFL tend to be utlized like WRs... Evan Engram, Mark Andrews, Kyle Pitts before Arthur Smith showed up, etc.

Blockers in the NFL rarely start fast, and blocking TEs almost never do. There's a strength gap between college and pros that they need to close. And also a communications gap, where they have to learn to diagnose more complex fronts than they've ever seen before and block them in synch with teammates they've never spoke to before. There is a reason why OLmen never rotate... that chemistry is hard to build.

LaPorta is being used heavily as a receiver, and he's been doing a damn good job of it. But receiving is the is the "easy" way for a TE to shine in their first 3 games. If your argument for guys like Schoon is "they're better blockers", it'll take a few years for that blocking to develop.
 
jblaze2004 said:
He is balling out for Detroit. Maybe he was the TE we wanted over Schoonmaker who has done nothing so far. Yes I know he is like the 3rd TE.
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It was reported that Laporta was their TE 1.

I believe them as he was also mine after looking at the top TEs.
 
Laporta in the 1st round instead of Mazi would have been interesting. And then address the part-time NT role in Round 2-4 (ex: Siaki Ika from Baylor went in R3 at 98).
 
Any of the TEs would have been a bad pick anywhere before the third round. LaPorta is a product of offensive usage more than any individual talent.

The fact that we're talking about LaPorta as a good early pick is just representative of how little talent there was in this draft class.

You could have something like 24 QBs, WRs and OTs go in the first round next year and we're talking about Sam LaPorta at 26 lmao
 
The big problem with the second round seems to be reacting to whatever position they didn’t get in round one.

They fixated on getting a corner when they got Parsons instead of Horn/Surtain.

They did it again last year when there was a run on TEs before anticipated.

You’d think they’d learn and fill all starting spots before the draft, but nope.

They’ve done very well on Saturdays and I suppose it makes up for it but what could have been?
 
Sam LaPorta was one of the TE’s I wanted. I didn’t want Schoonmaker who’s looking like a mistake.
 
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