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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
He has trouble getting low at 6'3?
Good thing we gave up a couple of sevens for him!
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Yeah. Not sure where the comparison came from. Cottam is 6'7" and O'Connell is 6'3".
I think Herm and Carl brought Cottam in cause he ran a nice 40 for a guy his size and they thought they could use him in the passing game. Haley saw him line up a couple of times and KNEW that idea was stupid, so he tried to get him to block, because he was supposed to be good at it coming out of college.
Cottam just isn't very tough. Combined with the fact that he doesn't really have good technique either and he's just not a great blocker.
In many ways, he is the prototypical Carl draft pick. A receiving TE in a blocking TE's body, but not athletically gifted enough to do EITHER.