Tony Gonzalez to be a free agent this offseason

If Gonzo can improve our secondary, run D, pass rush, blitz pickup, third down efficiency, linebacker play and QB consistency then I'm all for picking him up. Oh yeah, if he can kick and punt as well.

I would think we acquire some picks somehow and draft a great blocking TE out of college for once.I wish...

Great blocking TE's can be found late (where ya know, we still have picks) because they are grossly underrated in college.

We have other more pressing needs. We don't need another receiving TE, Cooley is just fine if we used him more.

there's a reason the chiefs arent gonna resign him, he's 31!!!!!

I don't think his age has as much to do with it as this:

...the Chiefs would be required to offer Gonzalez $7.83 million in order to hold his rights for 2007.

Given the magnitude of the number, we're told that the Chiefs won't use the tag on Gonzalez.


Nearly $8M for a TE? I think most teams would pass no matter who the guy is.

Oh, he'll probably come to an NFC East team and become a beast. As is our luck every goddamn year.

The guy has a few years left. But Cooley is just getting started. I really don’t think the front office would be that stupid. By the way which players are going to be free agents on the Redskins this off-season?

I'd say the problem lies that Cooley is stuck in pass protection too often. Getitng Gonzalez would give you a receiving TE while keeping one in to protect, but it is still wasted talent. The cheapest and easiest way to run this 2 TE set is to just simply use get a blocking TE and use Cooley as a receiving threat. Its more predictable than a Cooley/Gonzalez combo, but not so much more that its worth spending a ton of money.

I wouldn't want either of those guys staying in to block wasting their talents.

I agree with Matty, we have more pressing needs (espically on defense) than to think about throwing a sizeable amount at a TE, a position we really don't need help. After all the discussion we've had here in the last week about free agents, I know we don't want to start talking about that already.