I support keeping Bell for one reason:

He's a former 1st-round draft pick, and a former DRoY at that.

They don't just grow on trees.

Um, try reading that again. In the NFC there were only 4....

Not in the NFL. Thus having nothing to do with our roster this year or last.

I wonder if he means Battle starting at corner. I have a hard time seeing Pollard unseating Knight this season.

Hmm, I believe I read it correctly.

It seems Gunther would like to have more first day picks as his starters, no? If Gun follows his own advice he would select a first day pick as the CB opposite surtain. Of the CBs currently on the roster I believe only Battle is a first day pick. This also follows last year's preseason when Gun challenged Battle to "take his (Warfield's) job". Of course this is pure speculation but, ¿what else is there to do in the offseason?

It gets really interesting because there are four CBs (Battle, Hodge, Sapp, Maxey) who might start or might not even be on the roster. Anyway, of the corners we currently have on the roster who do you think will start?

Who do I think will start? Surtain (duh) and Battle would be my early picks. I like Sapp a lot but I think he is too small to be a regular starter.

and if they had just drafted 3 defensive ends he would of said all great defenses start upfront.

he's a freakin' parrot who repeats whatever they tell him to repeat


i think that's part of the reason why Carl likes him so much ... easily controlled.

Yeah, of our current CBs I would guess that Battle is Gun's first choice to start. But Battle may or may not be healthy.

* Battle has size and (did have) speed and has some limited NFL experience. Battle was also Gun's choice to start last year and then hurt himself. Is he healthy enough to play and/ or start this year?
* Sapp has NFL experience but is not prototypical CB size and I think Gun puts a premium on size and speed. Will Sapp's experience override his physical shortcomings and keep him on the roster?
* Hodge has size but was a day 2 pick, has only practice squad experience and was selected before Herm got here. Will Hodge's practice squad experience earn him a roster spot over Maxey?
* Maxey has size and speed but was a day 2 pick. Obviously, Maxey has no NFL experience and only limited college experience but he was chosen in the Herm Edwards era. Will we try to sneak him onto the practice squad this year to gain experience or will Gun be enamored by his physical attributes?

I have the deepest respect for your gridiron acumen, Mr. Laz. You are spectacularly well versed in the art. However, I don't know if Gun is easily controlled or not. In fact, he may lack the control lobe entirely.

In the past, I have observed behavior in Gun that would shame a drunken Planeteer.

FAX

Hah! I keep forgetting we have Walls. I wonder where he fits in to this mess?

Like you wouldn't have picked being the devils advocate no matter what he had said?

Doesn't that sound easily controlled too?

The thing that worries me more than any thing else about Bell's play last year was his lack of speed. I don't know if he made DRoY despite his lack of speed or if he lost some speed. But when we got him, we heard how fast he was, but in the open field he looked like he was running in concrete. I don't expect much from Bell. Hope I'm wrong.

Gunther said on both radio stations that Bell is the fastest 6 yards in football or something to that effect.

What he was trying to get acrossed is that the guy is EXPLOSIVE, not fast. In other words, he should be rushing the passer, not covering tight ends...

Nothing would shame me...er..I mean a drunken Planeteer....

You may be onto something there.

Well, let's hope that's the case for this year, as last year was a failed experiment, that Bell was lining up (for the most part) aganist a TE.