Patriots TE snapshot

I think Thomas has the best hands of the bunch...Due to injuries he has yet to receive a fair amount of playing time. I would like to see him get that opportunity.

He was supposed to have good hands but I don't think that matters anymore. They rarely throw to the tight end and when they do he's usually wide open. He's the smallest TE and can't block. I think they drafted him looking for lightning in a bottle, they got only rain.

He is the worst thing you can be when you play for Belichek. A knucklehead. The end is near.

I view Thomas much the same as Garrett Mills a few years back. You saw that he had/has physical tools (in THomas' case, his pass-catching) and think he's surely to make the team.... But then he gets released and you look back at it, and you aren't surprised.

I think BB's fascination with the TE goes back to when DB's could play physical with the receiver and a stronger, tougher receiver in the mold of a Benjamin Watson seemed a good thing. With the way the rules are now I think its a waste of time wasting high picks on the tight end position because they're essentially an extra blocker. It seems like only the TE's with superlative talent are good receivers and transcend the position; Benjamin Watson is not that TE. Watson makes the team and after him who really matters?

BB will always choose four radically different types of ____s, given his druthers. In this case he has a blocking tight end, he has a really fast tight end and he has an H-back type. There's one more slightly experienced tight end under the radar - 6 foot 8 tight end Sebastian Vollmer with his long arms and leaping ability. On the one yard line he will bulldoze his way into the end zone, then jump straight up in the air and catch the football. Take that, Mike Vrabel! I'm not sure that anyone other than Southwest Airlines can defense a spot that high in the sky.

Like the man said, let's not start carving Volmer's bust for the HOF just yet. Its a long way from playing a TE position for a few gimmick plays in college to replacing Vrabel as a go to guy.

TEs are the ultimate weapon, but they take huge hits because they go over the middle. It's good that we have four now, chances are that one of them will get hurt before the opener against the Bills. I'm guessing that it's Thomas. Even if it's just a sore pinkie toe that puts him on the PUP for the first 6 games...

I don't get it. They NEED linebackers, and fill up on TE's and nose tackles.

There are 2 critical factors this Patriot team must do!
1) They need to get a pass rush!
2) They need to be able to protect Brady.
I hope all these tight ends can at least do a good job of protecting the QB.

most people neglect the fact that thomas was the offensive captain of the texas longhorns the year they won the national championship with vince young. The injuries most certainly have plauged him, but he has yet to show his true potential. If the pats do let him go he will flourish elsewhere, that why he's stil here, he has the ability, and brains to play the position here.

re: David Thomas

Parcells said it best: you are what you are. And Thomas is a guy who has managed to catch a total of 21 passes in his first three years in the league. Ben Watson has managed to catch 136 passes in the last four years. Chris Baker has grabbed 111 passes in the last four years. And Alex Smith has produced 129 catches in the last four years. Watson was a first round pick. Baker was a third round pick. Alex Smith graduated from Stanford and was a third round pick. All these guys have laurels. Not all of them have produced. Thomas will still get a chance. Here's to hoping he does something with it.