- Joined
- Sep 13, 2004
- Messages
- 15,208
- Reaction score
- 12,977
They could have sure it up, they could have signed Scott Chandler, Andrew Quarless, Ed ****son Jeff Cumberland, Brandon Myers, Garrett Graham, Brandon Pettigrew, Owen Daniels, John Carlson, any of those players would have been an upgrade over Hooman and improved our current situation drastically. We could have made a play for Chandler he would have been perfect, 2 year deal for $4.75M, we could have swung it without an issue.
Yeah, I agree that FA had more possibilities, certainly a lot more than the draft. But some would have been little help (e.g. Owen Daniels), others give me the "Chris Baker" shakes, and for some I think the "could have signed" part is wishful thinking.
E.g., don't believe Scott Chandler would have opted for playing second fiddle to Gronk in a McDaniels offense, that would be a lousy career decision. (Plus whenever I see a guy re-sign with his original team a couple of days into free agency I suspect he was just using the FA market as a bargaining ploy.)
And Brandon Pettigrew signed for $4 million/year, $8 million guaranteed -- huge money for a backup with the dropsies.
In the end, Ed ****son and Andrew Quarless leap out as two players who seemed potentially attainable and worth it. And yes, I dearly wish they'd signed one of them. So I don't mean to suggest that a backup TE is a completely unattainable object, just that the closer you look, the scantier the options turn out to be.