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re: Julio Jones signing with Tampa
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:01 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:01 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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He's going to have one 200 yard game, everyone will pick him up off the waiver and he will never have a game over 100 yards the rest of the season.
There’s no chance he would be on waivers before then just based on name and football situation alone
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Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:02 pm to Fun Bunch
Y’all hatin but IF he stays healthy, I think Julio has a couple more 1000 yard seasons in him. Dudes a freak
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:03 pm to wildtigercat93
quote:Because we’ve heard, “hey Bob, did you know *insert TE* played basketball until his senior year of college before switching to football” a million times it seems.
Idk why people seem to think you can just throw some dude out there in that role
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:04 pm to ReauxlTide222
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Because we’ve heard, “hey Bob, did you know *insert TE* played basketball until his senior year of college before switching to football” a million times it seems.
It’s happened like twice. They’ve just said it for Jimmy Graham a billion times.
We’ve got examples of that same exact thing happening at other positions but I never hear any one go “just make that guy a corner, should be easy enough, don’t gotta cover just gotta kind of be in the way”
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:07 pm to wildtigercat93
What about Darren Fells?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:07 pm to wildtigercat93
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TE is the hardest non QB position to learn and play. Idk why people seem to think you can just throw some dude out there in that role
Like 5 WRs have converted this offseason alone. It happens all the time.
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And Julio is 45 pounds lighter than Gronk. Plus they signed Kyle Rudolph. So to answer your question, no
He doesn't have to become Gronk. Just pick up some of his role. You are taking it a bit too literally..
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:07 pm to saintsfan22
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I know I know
I hope he gets a ring though. Dude did everything in his power to personally guarantee it would happen, only for the Falcons to totally falcon after this catch
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:11 pm to brmark70816
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Like 5 WRs have converted this offseason alone. It happens all the time.
Switching positions isn’t the same thing as being a starting or contributing player at that position.
It takes even the greatest TEs a couple years at this level to grasp how to even play the position and be effective. Most take 4-5 years before they become a starting caliber player. It’s a position that historically gets hardly any rookie production because of how difficult that transition is
And yes, you can take a raw athlete and potentially find a TE out of that, but that’s far different than taking a 33 year old WR who already can’t stay healthy and trying to play him with his hand in the dirt. The idea is honestly ludicrous
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He doesn't have to become Gronk. Just pick up some of his role. You are taking it a bit too literally..
I’m sure he will be leveraged in the redzone to take over that missing part of the offense, but it won’t be by him playing the TE position
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:13 pm to wildtigercat93
What about Rico Gathers?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:17 pm to ReauxlTide222
The guy who made an NFL roster for like half a day?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:22 pm to wildtigercat93
The guy who got drafted after only playing basketball in college because NFL experts think that’s a simple transition apparently
But what about Darren Fells?
But what about Darren Fells?
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:25 pm to ReauxlTide222
Again I’m not saying it can’t happen, you can keep listing off outliers but that doesn’t make it any less silly to suggest this for a 33 year old Julio
If Julio was 6’7 270 pounds like Fells I may be more open to the idea
Taking a raw 21 year old basketball player and turning him into some thing (which is still very hard and a very long shot of success) is different then taking random player X in the middle of his career and trying to tell him to play TE all of a sudden
If Julio was 6’7 270 pounds like Fells I may be more open to the idea
Taking a raw 21 year old basketball player and turning him into some thing (which is still very hard and a very long shot of success) is different then taking random player X in the middle of his career and trying to tell him to play TE all of a sudden
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:31 pm to wildtigercat93
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Again I’m not saying it can’t happen
You said it happened twice when I just tried to explain why some people think transitioning to TE isn’t the hardest thing in the world
I didn’t say anything about Julio
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:36 pm to ReauxlTide222
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You said it happened twice when I just tried to explain why some people think transitioning to TE isn’t the hardest thing in the world
Yeah I understand why people are dumb about this, that doesn’t really explain anything or make it any less dumb
The position is extreme hard to learn and play. A couple of examples of it happening doesn’t make it less so. Especially when one of your “gotcha” examples never even played in an NFL game
I said it’s happened like twice, which obviously wasn’t a scientific count but you knew that
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:39 pm to wildtigercat93
quote:Well, I got more
Especially when one of your “gotcha” examples never even played in an NFL game
Nobody watches And1 mixtape episodes and thinks, aw hell, put this gentleman at corner and he’d do really well.”
But it seems fairly common to do it with TE, compared to other positions. Leading me to think TE is the easiest transition.
What about Julius Thomas?
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:40 pm to ReauxlTide222
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But it seems fairly common to
I’m not sure you understand what this means
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:42 pm to ReauxlTide222
Bama players can play every position. It’s what Saban taught them.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:43 pm to wildtigercat93
Compared to it happening with other positions
What about Quinten Rollins?
What about Quinten Rollins?
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:44 pm to ReauxlTide222
Ok
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:45 pm to Frac the world
quote:That’s the thing… That’s a bit “if.”
Y’all hatin but IF he stays healthy, I think Julio has a couple more 1000 yard seasons in him. Dudes a freak
He’s 33 and he has missed roughly 31 games in his career. He’s missed a ton the last two years.
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