Mario should shut up. Unfortunately for Buffalo, he's right. Oh, how we take for granted a front office that can get players for our system and a coach who can win with different schemes, if need be to fit the talent.
BB is so much more than that. He saw the changes in the league in has invested heavily in athletic, versatile de/olb, lb, and safeties on the backend. He has shifted "schemes," while hybridizing responcibilities and looks. He has designed defenses around a "sub" for national look and kept the snot blowers on the roster for the occasional matchup that demands the defensive heavies.
Tight ends. He has forever been looking for that all world TE, and he finally found him. We call him gronk. While gronk is a generational freak talent, he has contually looked for the te role players to exploit matchups with gronk. The prisoner, for one. Williams as a heavy, extra lineman type. Chandler as another tall recieving type, not quite the reciever as that soft as baby poo twit who was traded to Seattle, but a far better blocker in comparison (ok, a better blocker. Chandler isn't really a far better blocker than anyone but my dead grandmother). The kI'd from the Mankins trade, he had a few td grabs last year.
To the point, BB has always spent resources searching for plus tes. Watson, graham, both high picks. The TE is the Queen (chess analogy, not Bruce jenner) of a football offense. They block, catch, maybe take a hand off. Line up wide, or in the backfield, and generally provide either an athletic mismatch on a lb, or a physical one on a cb.
When teams were taking OBJ, Wallace, etc (shiny wr TOYS). BB was taking Gronk, Collins, HT, McCourty, etc (the prisoner needs his mention. **** that moron, but damn was he talented. Aforementioned list are far from shiny new draft day toys, but solid, albeit "flyers," that are dynamic providers to multiple aspects and phases of the overall game).
I hope a little booze, too many commas and some FL weather euphoria didn't disrupt this post too terribly.
