"After sitting through the better part of four NFL divisional playoff games last weekend, I came away with a serious case of tight end envy.

That's in the football sense, mind you, not in the heart's aflutter sense.

Watching the game-changing abilities of San Francisco's Vernon Davis, New England's Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez and New Orleans' Jimmy Graham and what happened to Green Bay when Jermichael Finley was no factor struck me on two fronts. One was the Browns' lack of a big-play threat in the same class of these players, even with depth at the position. The other was how tight ends have become a focal point of teams that pile up points."