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AlbaNY_Ram
"How long does it take to hit your peak?" It varies from player to player. As for Everett, the answer right now is 'more than 2 years' ... and I won't have a better answer until he stops improving. I'm sure 'more than 2 years' is too long for you. Well, it is for me, too. But you can't just cut the guy: he is productive and he is getting better. Coach him up as best you can and get out of him whatever he can give.
"We should have see his ability to play the position by the end of year 1." Actually, there are posters on this board who said they saw Everett's ability last year. I know you didn't. Maybe you were looking for something that the other posters weren't? I don't have a good explanation, I just know that there are respected talent evaluators on both sides of that discussion.
"Well...it's the end of year year 2." Yup. And Everett is without a doubt better now than he was a year ago. And he was better at the end of this season than he was at the beginning. I know - as does everyone else on this board - that Everett didn't perform up to your expectations, but with all due respect that is an irrelevant piece of information. What matters is this: is Everett doing what McVay thinks he should be doing? (The Rams didn't draft a TE, sign a TE as a FA, or trade for one this year. I think that pretty much answers that question.)
"Everett, to me, is a large WR. He's like a 6th WR on a team. He can be used is special special circumstances...like when people are hurt (Kupp). With a roster of 53, no one has that luxury." The Rams used more 12 personnel late in the season with noticeable success. As the 2nd TE, Everett shares some of the credit in that success however you care to define his role.
"We need a TE." It would be great to have a pro-bowl TE. I don't think it is a top priority.
I agree with pretty much all that. Including the not stated but implicit view that there are several
kinds of TEs and they play differently.
Everett like Jordan Reed in Washington is a large WR who can also block, just not as a consistently strong inline blocker.
Higbee IS an inliine blocker who can also catch some passes.
Wanting A "tight end" is not real. There are always only
types of tight ends.
Now and then you get one who can block inline, play outside, AND catch passes. But those are not common animals.
Tight ends almost invariably come as
types of.And besides a TE is not a necessity anyway. The entire time the GSOT was around they had role players at TE, just like now. The mostly imaginary Pure All Around TE type wasn't NECESSARY then...and it's not now either.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2019 05:51AM by zn.
