Believing in the "system" and having a shutdown CB

[mmillman]

deion was instrumental in the team winning two superbowls by shutting down the other teams best wr and allowing the defense to double the other.

Nnamdi, not quite Deion, but close enough to allow the same thing.

Sign Free, sign Nnamdi, sign Huff or another safety

cut or get Columbo to drastically reduce his salary, cut Newman, Cut Williams, Cut Barber

 

[burmafrd]

deion was instrumental in the team winning two superbowls by shutting down the other teams best wr and allowing the defense to double the other.

Nnamdi, not quite Deion, but close enough to allow the same thing.

Sign Free, sign Nnamdi, sign Huff or another safety

cut or get Columbo to drastically reduce his salary, cut Newman, Cut Williams, Cut Barber

ONE SB. Not two.

Neither Nmadi nor Revis can do what Deion in his prime did. Neither one truly shuts down half the field.

 

[TheSport78]

ONE SB. Not two.

Neither Nmadi nor Revis can do what Deion in his prime did. Neither one truly shuts down half the field.

Today is a MUCH different league than when Deion played. It is most definitely a passing league and while Deion would have still been successful, Nnamdi and Revis are playing in a more difficult time.

 

[Hoofbite]

ONE SB. Not two.

Neither Nmadi nor Revis can do what Deion in his prime did. Neither one truly shuts down half the field.

I think both do just about as good as anyone in the league can do and either would make this defense much better.

 

[Doomsday101]

I think both do just about as good as anyone in the league can do and either would make this defense much better.

I agree my only question would be at what cost? We know right now we have one of the highest payrolls what is the cap going to be? Which big contract do you have coming up after this season? I think you have to look beyond any single year if you hope to keep a team competitive for years to come.

 

[Bullflop]

I think bringing in a FA corner with simply good, rather than elite, credentials could quite possibly produce a dramatic effect in itself. Getting someone who could provide a decent measure of competition for Jenkins could open the door for him having marked improvement. If not, a replacement would be in place.

 

[TheSport78]

I think bringing in a FA corner with simply good, rather than elite, credentials could quite possibly produce a dramatic effect in itself. Getting someone who could provide a decent measure of competition for Jenkins could open the door for him having marked improvement. If not, a replacement would be in place.

I'm with you. And if Josh Thomas pans out, we have our future nickel corner, which would allow us to let Scandrick to walk in free agency next year.

 

[Stash]

Re-signings
DE Stephen Bowen
OT Doug Free
OG Kyle Kosier
SS Gerald Sensabaugh

Cuts
OT Marc Colombo
RB Marion Barber
CB Terence Newman

FA signings
CB Nnamdi Asomugha
FS Brodney Pool or S Abram Elam
DE Cullen Jenkins (may come not as expensive due to injury)

Please give your thoughts/comments!

I very much like the plan but I would prefer to sign Huff at FS and Abram Elam at SS rather than spending big bucks on Cullen Jenkins. While he's a fine player, age and injury concerns scare me away from paying him.

Other than that, my 'wish list' is almost exactly the same as yours.

One less expensive defensive end candidate I was thinking of was Kenyon Coleman. He's a solid, not spectacular player but played in Ryan's system in Cleveland and could 'hold the fort' until a younger option is ready to step up.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Where would the Jets be without Vernon Gholston?

 

[realtick]

Today is a MUCH different league than when Deion played. It is most definitely a passing league and while Deion would have still been successful, Nnamdi and Revis are playing in a more difficult time.

Thank you.

This guy is stuck in '95.

Deion was outstanding, but if you put him against a passing attack like Green Bay's, which goes what, four or five deep, they'd be running routes all around him and he wouldn't be shutting down half the field.

Folks tend to forget, Deion did have a weakness and it was the slant. Part of his game was baiting QBs which required playing off his man. He often got lazy playing on top of a slant instead of shadowing his man. He allowed a lot underneath. It's also a habit that T-New does that drives me nuts.

I could care less about some ambiguous and arbitrary title like "shutdown CB." The fact is guys like Nnamdi and Revis are some of the best at what they do in today's NFL, against today's WRs, against today's passing schemes. That's what's relevant.

 

[rkell87]

could somebody please define "shutdown" corner for me? everybody uses deion as the end all be all example(which he is) but while deion shut down half the field, I dont beleive this is the definition of "shutdown" corner. I think being able to erase a WR from the game is what it means to be a shutdown corner. Champ Bailey did this in his prime, nnamdi does this(only thrown AT 31 times all season last year) and revis does this(only allowing a few completions on him all year while getting 6? INTs last year)