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Dan Coats Resigned!!!!!!


Kazkal

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I've said it everytime the subject comes up. If Reggie Kelly is out of the lineup Daniel Coats iimmediately becomes the best blocking TE on the team.

But he's still not very good for a blocking Tight End o_O just better then Foschi & Coffman...>_< Hopefully they still plan on trying to find a real blocking Tight End :|

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I hear ya' Kaz and I should make it clear...I'm not standing on the table for Coats. But we are a running team and he's the best blocking TE on the team.

Look at it this way. Right now the Bengals TE situation is exactly the same as it was the moment Kelly and Utecht went down with one critical exception. That being, they now have more time and more reasonable opportunities avaliable to look for potential upgrades. But without any of those upgrades firmly locked down Coats is today exactly what he was then. The best of a very bad lot.

Nobody is going to love this move, including me. The guy simply can't catch the ball or hold on to it afterwards. But by the same token I don't hate it. And the reason I don't hate it is due to the way Coats blocks....and the way Benson runs.

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Am I happy about having to think about Coats being on the team this coming season ?? No.

Then again, there's nothing saying this move ensures he's on the team this coming season.

I don't like him, but this hardly concerns me and if (see WHEN) the Bengals draft a TE Coats will quickly become a non-factor.

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Nobody is going to love this move, including me. The guy simply can't catch the ball or hold on to it afterwards. But by the same token I don't hate it. And the reason I don't hate it is due to the way Coats blocks....and the way Benson runs.

I never thought you did just wanted get out there that IMO his blocking skills are very suspect...I just wished he wasn't on the roster because then I know there was zero chance of him making final roster...but now with the right amount of injurys he could be a bengal again >_<

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...just wanted get out there that IMO his blocking skills are very suspect...

Then we disagree, respectfully, because I'm satisfied with Coats as a blocker.

...I just wished he wasn't on the roster because then I know there was zero chance of him making final roster...

It's reported to be a 1 year veteran minimum contract....hardly worthy of the type of teeth gnashing many Bengal fans are engaging in.

...but now with the right amount of injurys he could be a bengal again >_<

Well, with the right amount of injuries I'll probably want him back...just as I did last season.

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What was the risk in re-signing Foschi? I don't understand why they let him walk so soon

Foschi hasn't walked.

Yet.

As someone explained to me, offering the lowest tender to Foschi AND Coats dictates the Bengals pay them nearly twice as much as the Bengals feel they're worth. So neither were tendered, but both are free to return if they'll accept a veteran minimum contract. Coats just did exactly that, and Foschi may do so as well.

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Just when you think Coats is finally gone....But,seriously, what are the odds that he will still be around come September? He's just a TE body. The significance of this signing,for me, is that it wasn't Reggie Kelly. Kelly must be anything but close to getting back on the field.

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Foschi hasn't walked.

Yet.

As someone explained to me, offering the lowest tender to Foschi AND Coats dictates the Bengals pay them nearly twice as much as the Bengals feel they're worth. So neither were tendered, but both are free to return if they'll accept a veteran minimum contract. Coats just did exactly that, and Foschi may do so as well.

Since Foschi wasn't tendered how do you know the Bengals even have an offer of a veteran minimum on the table for him? I'd say bring him in at the minimum and if he doesn't make the team then send him on his way. What's the risk?

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