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NGT: Lions trade TE Roberts to Pats for late pick...

M.S. : 6/13/2019 10:55 am
...from GBN Draft Report.

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Tremendous blocking TE  
allstarjim : 6/13/2019 11:52 am : link
great for Sony Michel.
Drafting Hockenson made him expendable.  
figgy2989 : 6/13/2019 11:59 am : link
Low risk move by Belichick as it is a conditional 7th. Watch Roberts turnaround and become a stud.
Why..  
FatMan in Charlotte : 6/13/2019 12:02 pm : link
trade when they could just sign one of the TE's the Giants release??

Bear Pascoe and Jake Ballard wave from the Pantheon at Foxboro....
You forgot Martellus Bennett!  
figgy2989 : 6/13/2019 12:06 pm : link
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Disregard  
figgy2989 : 6/13/2019 12:07 pm : link
You said TE's the Giants released, I was just thinking former Giants TE's who always seem to end up on the Pats rosters
Black..  
FatMan in Charlotte : 6/13/2019 12:07 pm : link
Unicorn took a more circuitous route to get there.

I still remember the threads saying that Belicheck stole Ballard and how it was an amazing gamble.
Tremendous Blocking TE?  
Samiam : 6/13/2019 3:17 pm : link
I don’t know the player but if he’s a tremendous blocking TE, I don’t get how the Giants never really got even a very good blocking TE in the past few years much less tremendous. And I’m probably overstating Ellison as a blocker by calling him good. If you have a bad OL for the number of years the Giants have had bad OLs, how do you not upgrade the blocking by picking up somebody really good if the price for a young guy is this low
RE: Black..  
Coach Red Beaulieu : 6/13/2019 4:12 pm : link
In comment 14471145 FatMan in Charlotte said:
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Unicorn took a more circuitous route to get there.

I still remember the threads saying that Belicheck stole Ballard and how it was an amazing gamble.

In general can't knock Reese, he didn't hang onto old or marginal talent, but man we could have used Black Unicorn, Reese basically calculated we had so much talent we needed to not "waste" cap space.
RE: Tremendous Blocking TE?  
Jay on the Island : 6/13/2019 8:00 pm : link
In comment 14471328 Samiam said:
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I don’t know the player but if he’s a tremendous blocking TE, I don’t get how the Giants never really got even a very good blocking TE in the past few years much less tremendous. And I’m probably overstating Ellison as a blocker by calling him good. If you have a bad OL for the number of years the Giants have had bad OLs, how do you not upgrade the blocking by picking up somebody really good if the price for a young guy is this low

When Ellison was signed he was known as an excellent blocking TE. He has been a bit of a disappointment in that regard. Hopefully the presence of Conrad on the roster will light a fire under him.

I wish we could bring in another Dan Campbell type of TE as a compliment to Engram. We all saw the impact Campbell had on Shockey and the OL in 2002.
RE: Tremendous Blocking TE?  
Cool Down : 6/13/2019 9:01 pm : link
In comment 14471328 Samiam said:
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I don’t know the player but if he’s a tremendous blocking TE, I don’t get how the Giants never really got even a very good blocking TE in the past few years much less tremendous. And I’m probably overstating Ellison as a blocker by calling him good. If you have a bad OL for the number of years the Giants have had bad OLs, how do you not upgrade the blocking by picking up somebody really good if the price for a young guy is this low


Because the same GM picking poor O Linemen was picking the TEs.
He failed his physical;  
Anakim : 6/14/2019 4:36 pm : link
Lions waived him
Trade was nullified...  
M.S. : 6/16/2019 6:57 am : link

...failed physical.

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