First I want to say, my wife just got back from H.E.B. and we have a big block of cheese to go with that wine a lot of you are doing.
Secondly, I am a Notre Dame and Husker fan, love those two colleges, so I predicted that we would get Fasano. He is tough, he can catch and he can block, I watched him in college and I was estatic when we drafted him.
some people in here was bashing him because he dropped the pass in the playoff game and they went on to say he never really did anything. Now those same people are crying because we drafted Bennett and why didn't we just keep Fasano, or why didn't we get a WR.
Mayock do not know what the blank he is talking about, his mock drafts were shown to be garbage from the start, so I would not believe anything he says/said today. I heard what he said about Bennett but the film shows differently.
Witten is a great TE, how do you think Tony Curtis a former bball player got better, watching Witten and listening and learning from the starter and the coaches, once he got to the NFL he received better coaching, the same will happen for Bennett.
What we have now is 3 TEs that can really put pressure on defenses, Bennett and Curtis and Witten can be split out like WR and they can get down the field, also Witten was not good at blocking when he first came, he has gotten better every year, the same has been happening for Curtis and the same will happen for Bennett.
Parcells knew we would not give up Witten but he knew we would give up Fasano, and Fasano fits the mold of Mark Bravaro, Parcells TE from the past, and we all know that Parcells lives in the past. He tried to build this team like his teams from the past, and he will try and maybe succeed in doing that for Miami, once the owner realizes that Parcells will get the dolphins to a competitive status but not over the hump he will fire Parcells or Parcells will resign.
But Fasano will be a very good TE, he will be that Mark Bravaro for the dolphins if he can stay healthy.
Bennet will be good, he not only will benefit from the excellent coaching and mentoring from Witten, but I am willing to bet he will gravitate towards T.O. as well and start working out with T.O. and I am willing to bet he will get faster as well.
We had a very very good first day, 1st and 2nd rd. If there had been a WR that Jerry thought could help immediately he would have made it happen, but everyone that his scouts and coaches graded they felt that they would have to wait a year or 2 for them to develop.
So do not blame Jerry for anything, blame the lions, bengals, and cradinals for being stupid/smart for not taking one of our first round picks for their WR.
A vet WR would have helped us instantly, so now we have to believe that our young guys will make that next step to help relieve the coverage on T.O., or that TG will be healthy enough for one last go around in the NFL.
Now this is the last things, Jerry may still be able to pull off a trade, like giving away our 3rd,4th(that we got for Fasano and Akin, rpelacing the 4th we gave for Adam Jones) 6th for one of those vet WR, if not we can wait till next season and pursue Roy Williams openly.
Also, listen for another Arkansas player WR Marcus Monk, or a WR from Oregon that got hurt, he could possibly be a UDFA, since he has been out of sight and out of mind(i cannot think of his name right now)but he was Dennis Dixon's favorite target before he went down and then also Dixon went down, he could be a person we could bring in as well.
I've heard good things about both receivers, things like they could help a team asap at the receiver spot.
Jerry has done a very very good job, he wants players that can take starters spots, he siad back in the 90s, he was drafting for backup positions, because of his stars, but he said he learned from that and he only wants players that can also be starters.
Sorry this was so long.
