Here’s how Fells is a “key piece”. He is NOT a “key piece” in terms of him catching 50 balls and 5 TDs. No. Fells is a “key piece” because they now have 3 TEs for their 3 TE sets, which they use a lot. Last year, they used OT Nate Solder as the 3rd TE (Solder was a TE in high school and recruited as a TE at Colorado) because they didn’t HAVE a 3rd TE. Plus, with the possible retirement of Matt Light, Solder will be used exclusively as an OT. Also, this allows Aaron Hernandez to be used exclusively as a receiver in the Shannon Sharpe mold (Not really a TE, not really a WR). So, in acquiring Fells, the “acquired” another receiver–Hernandez (you will probably not see Hernandez block on the line at all this year with Fells on board). In a nutshell, THIS is how Fells is a “key piece”.

Get Landry and I’ll be feeling great.

Rob Gronkowski….even Aaron Hernandez….mentioned as “key piece”…..OK, I buy that.

Daniel Fells….”key piece”…..NO

Outside of Denver, less than 1% of fans have even heard of this guy.

This now frees up Solder to start at left tackle in case Matt Light retires or at right tackle if Vollmer’s back injury comes back.
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Exactly. At least now when they have Fells in there (as opposed to Vollmer) there is at least some chance he might be in there to catch a pass.

Also, Gronk is a great blocker. The video / audio on him blocking Ngata and Suggs during the AFC Championship game (like most of his videos) is both impressive and hilarious. Kid likes to block. Gronk!

Don’t think that! It’ll ruin my SUMMAH!

It’s “clearer”, not “more clear”. I believe this is not the first time you’ve made this grammatical error. I hope journalism school if you had attended one, would have taught you “more good” than that.

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You guys should know. You all have been hating on the Yankees for the last hundred years.

It’s the NFL. Who’s to say that both Gronkowski and Hernandez aren’t on IR by Labor Day ?

You have to have depth to “survive ” the rigors of the regular season plus playoffs .

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Fells is not a good blocking TE. At least he wasn’t last year.

Pats played him 2x last year – I assume BB knows what he can do.

Elway and company are so wrapped up in asking Manning to be their prom date that they are letting some key pieces of the team disappear through free agency.
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Yep, and a Tenn beat writer (Wyatt) says the Titan’s entire FA plan is messed up now because they are waiting around on him. They already lost a chance at Abraham due to their PM love. And whichever team “wins” the PM sweepstakes will then bring in as many binkies of his as they can like Clark, maybe even Saturday. And they won’t make the SB this year even though they cater to him 100%..And I will laugh and laugh. No one player is worth all that.

This now frees up Solder to start at left tackle in case Matt Light retires or at right tackle if Vollmer’s back injury comes back.

But then again, Hernandez isn’t either. He’s a big WR that takes hand offs.