BTB: Primer: Elam, Huff, Landry, Harper and more

[CCBoy]

2011 Dallas Cowboys Free Agent Safety Primer: Elam, Huff, Landry, Harper and more
by One.Cool.Customer


http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2011...e-agent-safety-primer-elam-huff-landry-harper




Free agency will officially open tonight at 6:01 p.m. ET and during the course of the day, over the weekend and likely next week as well, you'll be hearing all sorts free agent safeties being connected to the Cowboys.

Abram Elam, Michael Huff, Dawan Landry, Roman Harper and many more names will pop up as potential candidates for one of two spots in the Cowboys secondary. To help you stay on top the who's who in the safety market, we've compiled a little free agent safety primer with key stats for all the free agent safeties who played at least 25% of their teams' snaps last year.

After the break, we look at 25 free agent safeties, how they held up in pass coverage and against the run, how effective they were in pass rushing and how they ultimately graded out....

 

[CCBoy]

This points towards Sensabaugh and Huff...as to value purchases.

 

[landryscorner]

It's sad that we've gotten to this point when you have

Mike Jenkins
and Terrance Newman

Manning the corners but not being very effective.

So what? we are planning on paying big bucks to bring one CB
in or 2??

Does that mean that we trade away one of our starting CB's

what a cluster##### Who deserves to be let go..Mike Jenkins the
underachieving corner from last year....or Terrence Newman the aging
veteran who at times failed to cover big and fast receivers last year....

I say bring Terrence into Safety position...weak...and put a new corner there

and give Jenkins some help on that side.....

Oh and I can't believe our Middle Linebacker spot isn't being shored up...
can't wait to see who we sign today.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

It's sad that we've gotten to this point when you have

Mike Jenkins
and Terrance Newman

Manning the corners but not being very effective.

So what? we are planning on paying big bucks to bring one CB
in or 2??

Does that mean that we trade away one of our starting CB's

what a cluster##### Who deserves to be let go..Mike Jenkins the
underachieving corner from last year....or Terrence Newman the aging
veteran who at times failed to cover big and fast receivers last year....

I say bring Terrence into Safety position...weak...and put a new corner there

and give Jenkins some help on that side.....

Oh and I can't believe our Middle Linebacker spot isn't being shored up...
can't wait to see who we sign today.

Middle linebacker? You mean our inside linebackers? We just drafted Sean Lee in 2010 and Bruce Carter this year to shore up our ILB's.

Terrence Newman also played hurt a good portion of last season. Some folks forget all too soon that Newman also had a nasty little sophomore slump, just like the guy across from him did in the 2010 campaign. I'll give Jenkins the benefit of the doubt as we should to any player until after the completion of their third full season in the NFL.

Not time to panic about not signing anyone. Let Danny Snyder win the offseason Super Bowl again.

 

[cowboyjoe]

Primer: Elam, Huff, Landry, Harper and more
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2011...e-agent-safety-primer-elam-huff-landry-harper
by One.Cool.Customer on Jul 29, 2011 5:30 AM CDT in Dallas Cowboys 2011 Free Agents

Free agency will officially open tonight at 6:01 p.m. ET and during the course of the day, over the weekend and likely next week as well, you'll be hearing all sorts free agent safeties being connected to the Cowboys.

Abram Elam, Michael Huff, Dawan Landry, Roman Harper and many more names will pop up as potential candidates for one of two spots in the Cowboys secondary. To help you stay on top the who's who in the safety market, we've compiled a little free agent safety primer with key stats for all the free agent safeties who played at least 25% of their teams' snaps last year.

 

[CCBoy]

Allready posted...

 

[Oh_Canada]

Middle linebacker? You mean our inside linebackers? We just drafted Sean Lee in 2010 and Bruce Carter this year to shore up our ILB's.

Terrence Newman also played hurt a good portion of last season. Some folks forget all too soon that Newman also had a nasty little sophomore slump, just like the guy across from him did in the 2010 campaign. I'll give Jenkins the benefit of the doubt as we should to any player until after the completion of their third full season in the NFL.

Not time to panic about not signing anyone. Let Danny Snyder win the offseason Super Bowl again.

This validates Sensy as not being the sieve some have protrayed him as....love to see him back along with Elam or Landry.

 

[basstapp]

Give me Pool & Elam and call it a day.

 

[burmafrd]

Sense wants serious money.


I really doubt that all those numbers PFF puts out matter too much to teams. Coaches and GM's do not seem to believe them anyway judging by who gets the big money.

 

[realtick]

I think signing Sensi shoul be a priority. Put him next to a guy like Elam and you should be good.

Fans like to over simplify things, especially when it comes to critiquing players. The same you have "fans" swear Patrick Crayton is garbage based off of dropping that pass in '07, are no different then then the folks bash Sensi for the inexplicable play against SidneyRice.

 

[burmafrd]

Just about every player will occasionally look like a fool on one play or another. Its how often it happens that is important.

 

[CCBoy]

I think signing Sensi shoul be a priority. Put him next to a guy like Elam and you should be good.

Fans like to over simplify things, especially when it comes to critiquing players. The same you have "fans" swear Patrick Crayton is garbage based off of dropping that pass in '07, are no different then then the folks bash Sensi for the inexplicable play against SidneyRice.

I was hoping you would pick up on topic here, Realtick. I agree here, on workability and value that would be gained with Sensabaugh and Elam. They are still youthful and coming up in value. There is an upward projection with both of them. And they both can be depended upon to man the top end zones.

That is important to this fan, as leads can effectively be maintained more than last season proved out. With an early lead, Dallas should be harder to beat while in catch-up modes, when packages are on the field.

And Dallas could bring in a package 'stamped' defensive tackle to fill in with just this in mind, similar to Haynesworth going to the Patriots.

 

[CCBoy]

Just about every player will occasionally look like a fool on one play or another. Its how often it happens that is important.

Lol, Burma, and incoming forges in steel.