stasheroo;3991422 said:
I think you're over-simplifying things.
I feel that if you can man-up on one side of the field, your defense can then dictate where the offense can throw the football, giving them a huge advatnage.
Much like when the Cowboys had Deion Sanders, he could cover one side of the field and you can scheme to cover the other side more effectively and creatively.
One only need look at Rex Ryan and the Jets and how the use Revis.
If it's economically feasible, I'm all for signing Asomugha.
You missed what was my point...and that was to point towards differences in types of cornerbacks and also the importance of depth at this particular position. As with a top quality linebacker who can actually cover a tight end up field and on the run, there is quality involved with corners as well. Asomugha is glued into his side of the field. Teams can then just limit focus by their quarterback to overloads in the other side of the field.
Name the real and complete cover corners and one probably has only Revis. As he covers any receiver all over the field. He is a shut down corner. Asomugha is just a step below that, granted, but he presents a different skill set even here.
As I pointed towards in the opening post, even with a single or pair of good corners, teams will still circumvent this and attack team's third and fourth corners until they can shut the door. The same with a tight end not being coverred by a team's weak linebacker or poorly skilled safety.
Teams will slaughter that secondary even with a very good number one or two corners.
Now, considering the Cowboys:
I feel that Terrence Newman is not far off the upper echelon of corners when he is fully healthy. That is a strong corner.
I feel that both Mike Jenkins and Orlando Scandrick are very solid corners in a league wide consideration.
I still have reservations as to addition that Alan Ball brings at the low end of this consideration. Adding, say an Asomugha would expand very dramatically, the effect they as a group would present do an opposing team. Even a lower level skillset added to this group, would be important in a coverage set.
Burma was target on, in the coverage skills being added by a safety. This very reason is why Huff is getting a lot of attention in a consideration with the Dallas secondary.
The need for a dominant and strong tackling strong safety could be mitigated by the fact that Terence Newman makes a tremendous amount of tackles for a corner. Then, if Asomugha were mixed in, he makes a huge amount of tackles as well.
This would add to a very strong group in coverage, as well as negate the need for an 'additional' strong safety effect on early and running downs situations in a defensive series of downs.
As Burma attested, the effect of coverage is important in this type of consideration, and with carry over skills of tackling being premium in any downgraded view.
The league is now a passing league, that should NOT be missed in an examination of what should constitute ability within that group.
From all accounts, obviously the Cowboys need a quality coverage safety. That is why I am so high on Huff becoming a Cowboy. I have confidence in Gerald Sensabaugh to hold up in a 'zone defense' type setting.
The Zone can take away a team's ability to adjust receivers to set up a particular coverage ability of a team's secondary.
Myself, I'm not real high on Ball. He to me, is the Cowboy's 'weakest link.' I was not impressed with his over-the-top coverage, even in a Zone.
Here, I'll defer to you, to establish his projected merit on a shorter distance zone participation in the defense. I don't know. Would his strengths better serve a job in this reduced zone at corner?
But a rock hard set of corners would make adaptation inclusive of safety positional players from the arena of need or even lacking in ability to shut off what propells opponent teams the most. The passing game throughout an entire set of plays in a series.
Healthy, I am happy with Newman, Jenkins, and Scandrick. I also like what Sensabaugh brings to the safety position. But there are two other considerations to add...and one well could still be at corner.
