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I just seemed different time, game was different then. Let the comparision analysis appear. I don't have time to research it.
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I also grew up watching these guys. It was a different game, but these two, especially Winslow, were used in very similiar roles to Tony. One difference, for all the bitching and moaning I see about the contact that Tony battles each week, those guys REALLY got mugged.
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Newsome....I don't really think so. He had some real good years and is HOFer but numbers fell off later. Too bad he played for the Browns. TE data http://www.pro-football-reference.co...rs/teindex.htm Will be enjoyable watching TG take over if he stays healthy and pass These guys on his way to title..... Sharpe 13 years.... Games Rec. Yrds Avg TD TOTAL | 203 | 815 10060 12.3 62 Newsome 13 years TOTAL | 198 | 662 7980 12.1 47 Gonzo current data 9 years TOTAL | 143 | 648 7810 12.1 56 Winslow numbers 9 years TOTAL | 109 | 541 6741 12.5 45
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the prime’ at 30 Gonzalez wants to age here
Tight end hopes to retire a Chief By ELIZABETH MERRILL The Kansas City Star Welcome to 30. Soon, the aches will start. The lines will form. And before you know it, everybody will be asking the dreaded question. Does he still have it? Tony Gonzalez is resting his long legs in a tent Saturday afternoon, and 8-year-old boys are screaming in the background. They just heard his speech about how a shy kid who was the worst player in Pop Warner went on to NFL stardom. With Gonzalez’s hip Pro Bowl visor and million-dollar smile, the kids at his camp have no idea Tony G is now a 30-something. Or that he’s commiserating with the older folk. Gonzalez and Chiefs president/general manager Carl Peterson have recently chatted about a new contract, and the talks have been amicable and have left Gonzalez hopeful that he’ll finish out his career in Kansas City. “I’ve become close to Carl,” Gonzalez says. “He’s the one who drafted me. He’s the constant one who’s been here since I’ve been here. I trust Carl, and I probably don’t know too many players who trust their GM. “I feel like I’m in the prime of my career. There are so many guys that it seems like they get even better after they turn 30. I look at Jerry Rice, and he was playing, he was ballin’ at 30. I look at Marvin Harrison, and he signed that huge contract and he’s 33 years old. I just turned 30, and it’s not like I’m old at all. I can play at a competitive level, a Pro Bowl level, for the next four years for sure. I know I can.” Few 40-year-olds have Gonzalez’s NFL resume. He’s been to seven Pro Bowls, caught 648 passes and is nearing 8,000 receiving yards. Last year was considered a down season statistically for Gonzalez. He still had 78 catches for 905 yards. And he goes into 2006 the healthiest he’s been in at least two offseasons, thanks to a surgically repaired foot. Gonzalez says he’s a better tight end now because he had to hone his blocking skills last year when left tackle Willie Roaf went down. He’s fit enough to partake in — and this is where Chiefs fans start gasping — some pickup basketball, and plays about once a week with former professionals. “People ask me, ‘Aren’t you scared about getting hurt?’ ” Gonzalez says. “I’m not going to do anything stupid. It’s strictly jump shooting. The trick is to play with good players, players who aren’t gonna hurt you. “I’ve still got it. I’m not as good as I used to be, but I still have it.” Like every offseason, Gonzalez hasn’t sat still. This weekend, he’s working with 300 campers in Olathe. He’s also jetted to and from his home in California to be with his son, Nikko. Nikko, who’s 5, is the spitting image of his dad, and on Saturday, Tony asks him if he wants to sit in the tent or go play football. “Play football,” Nikko says. Gonzalez is trying to mix life lessons with fundamentals, but it wasn’t supposed to be this way. Last year, quarterback Trent Green showed up and said he only had 15 minutes. Gonzalez suggested he talk to the kids. From there, it’s been a series of talks and pats on the back. Gonzalez sees himself in some of the kids. When a boy appears intimidated, he’ll pull him aside and tell him to have fun. Gonzalez, who’s 6 feet 5 and weighs 250 pounds, was bullied as a kid and had an aversion to speaking in front of crowds. “I tell these kids, ‘Don’t be afraid of anything,’ ” Gonzalez says. “Life is what you make of it.” Among this weekend’s expected guests is former Chiefs fullback Tony Richardson, who recently signed with the Vikings. Gonzalez considers Richardson, who played with him for nine years, one of his best friends. These days, everything is different at Arrowhead Stadium. Richardson left a huge hole in the locker room, and coach Dick Vermeil’s gone, too. But Gonzalez raves about new coach Herm Edwards and his no-nonsense practices. He also likes the fact that Edwards isn’t into big, daily motivational speeches. Veteran athletes shouldn’t need motivation, Gonzalez says. “He’s younger. At least he comes off as younger,” Gonzalez says. “I don’t even know how old Herman Edwards is. I thought he would be 43 or something because he’s so young and full of life.” So is Gonzalez. Even at 30. He has two years left on his contract, but the last year is voidable because of his Pro Bowl appearances. He’d like to get a new deal worked out before — or at least during — the season. He doesn’t want the issue to drag on all year. “I don’t want to get to free-agency,” Gonzalez says. “I don’t even want to be faced with that decision. Because right now I don’t want to leave Kansas City. I want to stay here, I want to finish my career here. This is where it started. I don’t want to wait till I’m 31 to get a new deal.” Priest update Priest Holmes worked a camp this weekend near McAllen, Texas, and told The Monitor newspaper that he’ll take a physical with the Chiefs sometime this week. 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Tony has 4-5 good years left, no problem...he'll help carry us through the transition from AS to Solari and, eventually, Green to ???....pay the man, then pay LJ, than pay Allen, then pay Mitchell, then pay...
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He ran the deep seams, the quick slants, etc. The same types that Winslow and Tony ran/run. If anyone redefined the position, Newsome would be the man. Before him TEs were just an extension of the O-Line, and very rarely primary receivers. They were primarily safety valves in the passing game.
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Nice Pic...Gonzo at the your charity event.
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