Patriots Addressing Tight End With Tomlinson, Watson

Izzo is suffering, due to circumstances, from early advance in responsibilities beyond his skill maturity, much like Roberts early on, and looking comparably bad. I think he'll be ok once he gets some breathing space to actually grow into his job. Right now he's trying to drink from a fire hydrant.

The funny thing about Izzo's blocking is that the scouting reports out of FSU, where he played a ton vs. very good opponents, was that he was had good-to-great potential as a blocker, so-so hands and less-than-stellar quickness, so very limited wrt receiving. My expectation from the draft discussions was we'd have a Dwayne Allen replacement, or at least a poor man's version. So far... big nope. Technique problem?