I never said Chan doesn't use TE's. I am making an assumption that if Chan asked for them to sign one, they would have gone out and done it, or at least scheduled some interviews. Maybe that's a bad assumption. I don't know.
I really don't think you can make this comparison precisely because the Packers won the Super Bowl. I happen to be someone who believes Nix deserves a chance, and I'm not griping about FA, but still, that comparison just looks wrong.
Being in the NY area I watched most Jets games last year, and regardless of the official stats, he definitely dropped some balls (including some sure touchdowns.)
How many balls did Edwards drop last year? And how many games is he actually going to play this year?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/04/SPVU1KJL3Q.DTL#ixzz1U9Zd4Eyc
4M a year is very different than the 4M total people here were assuming.
http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Thursday-update-Whitner-brings-66-starts-Dalton-still-to-get-most-snaps-Rivers-reaches-out/1b2ed0d6-3312-4fe7-a42f-b801da55b75c
This also says a lot about how valuable he was to an admittedly terrible defense: