Which safety do you choose?

[LeonDixson]

...are you so sure that it's not 3,999 or even 4,001 times better!?!...

Actually, it's 3999.7 so it rounds up to 4000.

 

[visionary]

ET
and its not close
It's a passing league and there are several options for SS
Elite FS are uncommon

 

[Falco78]

Thomas by a huge margin

 

[Rockport]

I’ll take LC- young and we can get him learning with richard- dude is a playmaker on defense. Woods has been way better than suitable as our FS.

Would love to have #29 here. He’s a game changer and his injury wasn’t a ligament injury and he’s probably got 2-3 more good years left. Just think he’s going to want more than the Cowboys are willing to offer. Hope I’m wrong.

 

[Whyjerry]

We will get neither and like it. Woods and heath will be the starters again next season.

No way. Heath was once again exposed as a complete liability. Guy is a special teamer. He will not be a starter.

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

Neither! Collins isn't any better in coverage than Heath at what will probably be at least 10x the money. Whatever # Thomas threw at Seattle they aren't even negotiating with him. He's broken his leg 2 out of the last 3 years and missed time in all 3. With contracts for Lawrence, Jones, Cooper, Elliott, Jaylon, Dak and others coming up, I don't see them investing a 60+ m contract into a safety that's a liability in coverege or 30 with injury issues as confirmed by Stephen has already said their focus would be on their own players!

Correct, because neither will get a $60M+ contract from anyone, much less us.

 

[Hadenough]

I’ll take LC- young and we can get him learning with richard- dude is a playmaker on defense. Woods has been way better than suitable as our FS.

I dont think Thomas is worth the risk due to history of injuries but he is the style of safety the Cowboys need. Collins is a physical safety and we have enough of them. Maybe not as good as Collins. Looking at the Cowboys and all the good players they have and will need to sign I would be drafting a S along with a DT.

 

[WillieBeamen]

ET was the reason why the Hawks beat us in week 3.

Landon opened his big mouth about Dak and got torched first play of the game.



This isnt even close

 

[John813]

I have faith Richard would make Collins the rookie/second year guy again. That being said he could cost a lot and I doubt the FO wants to break the bank on paying a safety.

Either or I would be fine with. Thomas IMO is the safer option scheme/talent wise.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Neither.

I'm targeting Tre Boston who had another good year and will be much cheaper than those options.

 

[JustChip]

If it's really just a matter of who you'd rather have running free, that's gotta be Goff.

What I don't like about the play is that if that's Heath's man, he should be up his grill taking the block and keeping the TE off the defender. You can't have the TE taking two of our guys out of the play.

I thought Broaddus was circumspect about what choice Heath was supposed to make. Could do A or B. Well, we want to know which one he was coached to do. Broaddus dodged that issue.

When I watched it, it was clear to me that Heath wasn't blind, he was sticking with what he thought his assignment was. I'd like one of those fine journalists to find out what his assignment *actually* was.

This is similar to the Byron Jones coverage question in the GB playoff game. Why didn't he stick with the TE? Well, he thought he was covering an area, and was also the guy playing short in that coverage. Carr evacuated the area that the catch was made in. Should he have?

In both cases, one guy is looking bad, but I don't know what he was coached to do in that situation, and I'd like to know.

Excellent post. Your central thesis is really what I was trying to say, but you did sooooo much better. We don't know exactly what was supposed to happen. In hind-sight, it seems to me Heath should've played Goff because the TE was blocking down, but who's to say the TE wasn't just supposed to chip and then leak out to a pattern to give Goff an option, but got too tangled with Crawford and couldn't. It's why I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they do film review with the players and team after games to know what was supposed to happen and why it did or didn't.

 

[northerncowboynation]

I’ll take LC- young and we can get him learning with richard- dude is a playmaker on defense. Woods has been way better than suitable as our FS.

I know it's fantasy football but Landon Collins for sure. Young, aggressive, two fewer broken legs. I don't see it happening though. I never thought ET would happen in 2018 either, even less likely now. Eric Weddle may be available too. Last year of his contract in Baltimore and they would save about $7 mill by cutting him. Older at 34 is the problem with Weddle. Plays smart though, could be a 2 year stop gap

 

[Future]

Landon Collins is basically a linebacker. Why sign him when you can get HaHa Clinton-Dix to do the exact same thing?

There's no upgrade at safety available who will make any difference to the Cowboys D except ET. That's it.

 

[lukin2006]

I'll take LC. But Stephen said no big free agents. They like poor performers like Jeff Heath, that's my guess.

 

[Future]

If it's really just a matter of who you'd rather have running free, that's gotta be Goff.

What I don't like about the play is that if that's Heath's man, he should be up his grill taking the block and keeping the TE off the defender. You can't have the TE taking two of our guys out of the play.

I thought Broaddus was circumspect about what choice Heath was supposed to make. Could do A or B. Well, we want to know which one he was coached to do. Broaddus dodged that issue.

When I watched it, it was clear to me that Heath wasn't blind, he was sticking with what he thought his assignment was. I'd like one of those fine journalists to find out what his assignment *actually* was.

This is similar to the Byron Jones coverage question in the GB playoff game. Why didn't he stick with the TE? Well, he thought he was covering an area, and was also the guy playing short in that coverage. Carr evacuated the area that the catch was made in. Should he have?

In both cases, one guy is looking bad, but I don't know what he was coached to do in that situation, and I'd like to know.

I can't remember specifically who it was...

But they talked about how the Cowboys got burned on that play with a playaction to the TE out of that same formation and the Rams had run like 4 plays out of it. There is no doubt that Heath's assignment was man coverage on the TE. The Cowboys either ignored the threat of a Goff run (which kind of makes sense), OR gave Heath 2 responsibilities. Either way, that's a failure on the coaches, not on Heath. They weren't having him play zone coverage in the flats.

 

[silvrNblue]

We will get neither and like it. Woods and heath will be the starters again next season.

I hope you are wrong, or in the very least, they go into the draft and get us a better, at least on film and paper player to compete at least and continue the Dallas grand format of let us see...

 

[TwoDeep3]

ET

 

[Denim Chicken]

There's no upgrade at safety available who will make any difference to the Cowboys D except ET. That's it.

That's ridiculous.

 

[blumayne38]

I’ll take LC- young and we can get him learning with richard- dude is a playmaker on defense. Woods has been way better than suitable as our FS.

Earl Thomas without a doubt

 

[Future]

That's ridiculous.

No it's not. There are no FA safeties who are upgrades on Woods over the top except ET, and changing your box safety doesn't have any impact on the defense overall. It's not like you can insert Landon Collins in Heath's role and just expect a bunch of turnovers all of a sudden.

There's no difference if you don't add a playmaker, and ET is the only one available.