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[Redskins8588]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Wiggins is 260, how much bigger do you want a TE to be?

He is only like 10lbs bigger than Cooley, I would want a 280 to 290 TE almost like having a OT on the end that can catch...

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Redskins8588

He is only like 10lbs bigger than Cooley, I would want a 280 to 290 TE almost like having a OT on the end that can catch...

The thing is we don't run many double TE sets in passing situations. That's why Pucillo filled the role of blocking TE last year, but there wasn't much need for another TE that could catch.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

The thing is we don't run many double TE sets in passing situations. That's why Pucillo filled the role of blocking TE last year, but there wasn't much need for another TE that could catch.

Yeah, I think we're fine at tight end, yet almost everywhere we hear it's a need. I don't get it.

If they want to find a Ron Middleton-type tight end (who weighed around 270 and did nothing but block his whole career) then we can find that very late in the draft, or even through undrafted free agency.

[Smurf85]

Redskins | Contract update: Smoot
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Jason La Canfora, of the Washington Post, reports Washington Redskins CB Fred Smoot signed a five-year contract worth a maximum of $21 million and not $25 million as previous reported, according to sources. Smoot received $7 million to sign.

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[Redskins8588]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

The thing is we don't run many double TE sets in passing situations. That's why Pucillo filled the role of blocking TE last year, but there wasn't much need for another TE that could catch.

Yeah, I agree, but it would be nice to have a big body like that in the red zone or goal line situations that we can play action to. Dont get me wrong I think that Cooley does a great job in the red zone and goal line situations but it would be nice to have that option of a big blocking TE to roll out and find in the back of the endzone, almost like a tackle eligable. But we could also use him as bait on 3rd and short situations too.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Redskins8588

Yeah, I agree, but it would be nice to have a big body like that in the red zone or goal line situations that we can play action to. Dont get me wrong I think that Cooley does a great job in the red zone and goal line situations but it would be nice to have that option of a big blocking TE to roll out and find in the back of the endzone, almost like a tackle eligable. But we could also use him as bait on 3rd and short situations too.

sellers@TE in single back and I-form (with pucillo at FB).

[Redskins8588]

Originally Posted by That Guy

sellers@TE in single back and I-form (with pucillo at FB).

Either way that would work, I wish that we would use that more often. But I do like Sellers only in the backfield. If Pucillo could catch that would be best that way the D would not only have to worry about Cooley, Moss, and Portis, but also the other TE and Sellers flanking out of the backfield for a play action pass much like 2005. I just think that it would give us more options in the goal line and short yardage situations if we had a TE that was much bigger than 250-260lbs. JMO...