Why does everything have to be so extreme? You're either a lover or a cut him. Why is there never room for middle ground of debate in anything anymore? Why does every debate have to be a screaming match? Why does every debate have to have such strong words like "slow as molasses", or always hurt, etc.?
I used strong language on Martin at LB because his only live action had him missing tackles, attacking the wrong hole and being behind every other LB in OTA's, Minicamp and TC. He also did the "dreaded" position switch. Kamal Martin deserved strong language. But the TE position does not.
Here is what we know about Sternberger: he was injured over half his entire rookie year and when he came back, he needed to play H back and he played it okay. Enough for fans to be pretty darned excited about him. He also caught a TD in the postseason with a great reaction move to get open.
His 2nd year, he definitely played 2nd fiddle to Robert Tonyan. Something fans got wrong again as the popular thing was "Robert Tonyan is going to get cut" (again fans are morons with such extreme language and everyone here will deny they said it...maybe I even said it. Who knows). Robert Tonyan took an unexpected jump to become likely a top TE in the league and Sternberger, who basically plays the same role, had to be backup duty in that role. (but would get a very active role if Tonyan misses time)
Sternberger still through all of those had the 2nd most production of TE's last year. He would have had even more production but Rodgers had a stretch there between Tampa, MN, and Houston where he grossly threw bad balls to TE's (MN was a very windy game) and these bad throws extremely limited the production of the TE's as they all left massive yards and TDs on the field. (yes Rodgers isn't perfect either). Sternberger is not a good blocker, but he has shown with is receiving opportunities he can perform in the open field.
Deguara we have very little tape on outside of a strong week 1 performance with some good blocking and one strong reception on the sideline until an injury took him out (funny that injuries are a knock on Sternberger but not on Deguara). We know MLF really likes him and his role is largely going to be more suited in that H-Back role where he is supposedly really good at blocking in the open field. There is a lot of reason to be really excited about Deguara. Dominique Daffney also came in last year with ridiculous athleticism and showed us we should be really excited about him too.
And for the love of god. It is D-E-G-U-A-R-A. It's almost like there is pleasure being had by seeing how many people can be spelled wrong. If you want to have some credibility on looking like you know what you're talking about....google the damn name first. Your credibility just plummets when you don't.
I mean a Q in Dequara?
There is an argument to be had to not have enough room on the 53 for 5 TEs and an argument to be had to keep 5 TEs. Right now we have Jake Hanson on the 53 who will never dress this season. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Sternberger replaces Hanson on the 53 entering Week 3 and Jake goes back to the P-Squad.
