A look at 2014 Free Agents - Who should we pursue?

[McBeard]

We need a CB. Our CBs are slower than Christmas and it was pretty obvious all season.

[mcaj22]

i think you could get Arthur Jones at the price we were paying Tyson Jackson

hell we could get almost anyone with the money we paid him

[McBeard]

I like Cooper but we should try and trade Flowers. Or, think about moving him to FS. He might work out there. He's best in zone coverage and is a great tackler. In a perfect world he would make a great FS.

He is really slowing down and he gets hurt so much you can't count on him to be there for you. His injuries seem to always effect his speed and ability to cover WRs. If we move him to FS he might make it through a season?

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by McBeard

I like Cooper but we should try and trade Flowers. Or, think about moving him to FS. He might work out there. He's best in zone coverage and is a great tackler. In a perfect world he would make a great FS.

He is really slowing down and he gets hurt so much you can't count on him to be there for you. His injuries seem to always effect his speed and ability to cover WRs. If we move him to FS he might make it through a season?

So you want to take a guy that is, according to you, slowing down and injury prone.....and you want to move him to FS? Where he's going to be asked to cover more field than he does now? Yeah.....smart.

[McBeard]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

So you want to take a guy that is, according to you, slowing down and injury prone.....and you want to move him to FS? Where he's going to be asked to cover more field than he does now? Yeah.....smart.

Being a safety isn't all about speed. In most cases they are safeties because they aren't fast enough to play CB. It's why guys like Rod Woodson, Charles Woodson, Ronnie Lott and countless other move to safety when they start slowing down.

Playing safety is about sticking to your assignment and reading plays. Like I said, Flowers excels in zone coverage and tackling. He is very smart and I think he would be in the right spot more often than not. I think he could be good at it.

You really have it backwards pest.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by McBeard

Being a safety isn't all about speed. In most cases they are safeties because they aren't fast enough to play CB. It's why guys like Rod Woodson, Charles Woodson, Ronnie Lott and countless other move to safety when they start slowing down.

Playing safety is about sticking to your assignment and reading plays. Like I said, Flowers excels in zone coverage and tackling. He is very smart and I think he would be in the right spot more often than not. I think he could be good at it.

You really have it backwards pest.

You better hope that he excels at taking the right angles every time.

[McBeard]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

You better hope that he excels at taking the right angles every time.

He's a savvy vet and I'd give him a chance. It really might be the best option.

[The Franchise]

Offenses figured out how to beat our defense in the 2nd half of this season because of the following things:

1. Spread out the defense. Our defensive line generated zero ****ing pressure.
2. If you spread out the defense....the weak spot is the deep safety. Pick your matchups and exploit Lewis.
3. Crossing routes and pick patterns.

Our defense didn't suck because our CBs are horrible. It sucked because Lewis had no clue what he was doing and we couldn't generate any pressure on a consistent basis. Sutton needs to start figuring out how to use the depth that he ****ing has and we need to find DEs that can't rush the passer.

[McBeard]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Offenses figured out how to beat our defense in the 2nd half of this season because of the following things:

1. Spread out the defense. Our defensive line generated zero ****ing pressure.
2. If you spread out the defense....the weak spot is the deep safety. Pick your matchups and exploit Lewis.
3. Crossing routes and pick patterns.

Our defense didn't suck because our CBs are horrible. It sucked because Lewis had no clue what he was doing and we couldn't generate any pressure on a consistent basis. Sutton needs to start figuring out how to use the depth that he ****ing has and we need to find DEs that can't rush the passer.

We need defensive ends but you better have a better plan than that. Finding them is going to be tough. In the mean time you better get a corner fast enough to follow a wide receiver in a crossing route and a safety that can read plays and stick to assignments. Look at the big picture. Odds are that our sack total from DEs will not go up next year. Odds are that we will not strike gold drafting a DE.

[Steron]

Restructure Bowe and Hali to extend Houston.

My list is as follows.....

OT - Albert - Pay the man. He's better than what we can replace him with internally or externally.
G - Asamoah - Depth
DE - Lamarr Houston - He's 26 and coming into his prime as a DE. 300 pounder with 69 tackles and 6 sacks.
CB - Munnerlyn or Talib. I think either one is going to be out of our price range.
S - Byrd - Priority #1. This HAS to happen. HAS to. We need competent S play.
WR - Sanders or Nicks.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Steron

Restructure Bowe and Hali to extend Houston.

My list is as follows.....

OT - Albert - Pay the man. He's better than what we can replace him with internally or externally.
G - Asamoah - Depth
DE - Lamarr Houston - He's 26 and coming into his prime as a DE. 300 pounder with 69 tackles and 6 sacks.
CB - Munnerlyn or Talib. I think either one is going to be out of our price range.
S - Byrd - Priority #1. This HAS to happen. HAS to. We need competent S play.
WR - Sanders or Nicks.

Where the **** are you getting all of the money for that?

[Steron]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Where the **** are you getting all of the money for that?

Like it says - wish list. Re-sign Albert and Asamoah and gimme one of them. Maybe 2.

I would think Byrd or some other S would be priority number 1.

[Titty Meat]

The team isn't going to pay berry 11 mil and pay byrd 8 mil.

They could get by signing an average safety for much less, extend its guys, and focus getting a playmaker on offense.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

The team isn't going to pay berry 11 mil and pay byrd 8 mil.

They could get by signing an average safety for much less, extend its guys, and focus getting a playmaker on offense.

I'd rather have Byrd than Berry.

*DUCKS AND COVERS*

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

I'd rather have Byrd than Berry.

*DUCKS AND COVERS*

You aren't that ****ing idiot on Twitter that said that we should trade Berry for Desean Jackson....are you?