retarded if you ask me, maybe Coles or Simson and maybe a 3rd or 4th rounder…….

I don’t think it’s a knock on Coffman as much it is on Coats and Foshi. I don’t think they are very positive about Kelly or Utech coming back. I’m guessing they were looking at Bennett and Coffman as the long tearm TE’s with someone like Roland coming in on “Big” packages.

Only justification for him not even getting 2 or 3 snaps per game.

“We could have probably made a ‘now’ impact and just bolstered a position, and significantly, and obviously we would have had a takeaway since it’s a young player for the future,” Jones said. “By the same token, and I’m talking about the type of consideration, first- or second-round type consideration, but the bottom line is this: Had I not thought that we needed that player right now as opposed to pushing forward in consideration for picks in the future, then I would have taken the pick option on it rather than the player.”

Calvin Watkins covers the Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com.

Thanks for nothing, Jerry. I’m sure Martellus will be getting Witten’s snaps anytime now.

/Bitter

Really, now…blocking, schmocking! No substitute for experience…put the guy IN already! If he’s so bad that he couldn’t be swapped with one of our oven-mitt-hands-having TEs, why did he get drafted???

GM! Scouting Department! JEEZ!!! You’d think if we had EITHER of those, we wouldn’t have this problem and be reduced to speculating about trading for Jason Witten’s Backup (since Dallas Clark’s Backup worked out so well for us!) while waiting for the eye doctor to call you in from the waiting room!

No, wait…that last part was just me. Dr. B’s a Bears fan, though, so I’m sure we’ll have plenty to talk about here in a few minutes.

  I just don’t get why Coffman is not playing at least some. He can’t be as bad as the stone handed TE’s out there now and his receiving skills were a srength at Missouri giving Carson an excellent target……the speculation on this proposed trade is crazy as well. We would have given up way too much so thanks for saying no, Cowboys.

Why wouldn’t he work out in real life? :)

My first reaction is huh? Did we hire a general manager when I wasn’t looking? Did someone slip Mike Brown a mickey? Actually making a significant mid-season offer mid-season—that’s so unlike the Bengals. Somethings up.

Second reaction is more in line with smoorman. Bennett and Coffman would nail down the TE spot for several years with two good talents. I don’t think its frustration with Coffman, but the reality that the Bengals don’t have a TE. Foschi has a pulse and has played TE in the past, Coats was being groomed to be short yardage blocker/FB—not an every down TE.

As far as Coffman’s development—obviously the Bengals didn’t plan on having Kelly and Utecht go down and it isn’t unusual for a player to take a year to get up to NFL speed. I get the impression that he isn’t up to delivering an NFL blow either as a blocker or as a tackler on special teams. Which of course makes me wonder how he would handle Ray Lewis trying to decapitate him when he catches a pass over the middle.

I’d love to see him in there but if he needs time to develop, let him develop. Its better than having a third TE on IR.

Has cost the team 3 TD’s the past two games. He can’t make the easy catch that fly right through his hands. He has to twist his body backwards to grab the pass that is slightly off target. Oh, that’s right, he promptly fumbled that one. Coats must go, they need to give Coffman a chance.