Remember when we had no tight ends?

[phillycard]

Talk about feast to famine. Trey is easily one of the best doing it now, I LOVE Higgins who doesn't get the praise he deserves enough IMO, and Tip is doing exactly what we asked of him. The trust Kyler has in these guys is a huge reason for our recent success IMO. So happy to see it.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

It's great that we have TE room with more than 1 guy

Really opens up the offense

And yes it's been a long time coming

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Even worse were all of the years we actually had tight ends but knew nothing about how to use them in an offense.

 

[phillycard]

Even worse were all of the years we actually had tight ends but knew nothing about how to use them in an offense.

True indeed B, but the skill level is markedly better. If Trey got hurt, I would have total faith in EH to hold us down.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

True indeed B, but the skill level is markedly better. If Trey got hurt, I would have total faith in EH to hold us down.

Yes, but at one time we had both Jay Novaceck (All-Pro) and Rob Awalt (1987 Rookie of the Year) on our team. Bugel came in as coach and got rid of both of them because he viewed a TE only as a blocker or somebody to perform H-back type functions.

They traded Awalt to the Cowboys and left Novacek unprotected. Both ended up with Dallas and Novacek became a star TE for them while Awalt battled injuries the rest of his career.

 

[Goodyear Card]

I remember when McBride was selected people said it was a wasted pick because you don't selected TE that high and the Cardinals don't use TE.