Kyle Rudolph and Visanthe Shiancoe Like Watching Tight Ends

A lot of interesting stuff happens on Twitter. Take last night. Visanthe Shiancoe and Kyle Rudolph were both watching the Patriots-Broncos game. Both were very impressed by the way the Pats used their tight ends to shred the Denver defense. So effusive were Shank and K-Rudy in their praise of the Patriots that…well, I don’t want to go drawing conclusions. I’ll just show the tweets and let you make up your own mind about possible deeper implications.

Shiancoe tweeted:

Shank likes it when teams utilize their tight ends heavy. Does he suspect there might be a link between heavy utilization of tight ends and making the playoffs? Again, I don’t want to go reading too much into these tweets. They’re just tweets. Little, innocent tweets.

Here are some more little tweets that we shouldn’t read anything into. Kyle Rudolph:

To which Shank replied:

Which prompted Rudolph to tweet:

And then Shank:

To which Rudolph replied:

Just two tight ends enjoying the fine art of offensive football. No dis of Bill Musgrave and his alleged under-utilization of tight ends was intended or should be inferred. Right?

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