Twitter: Cowboys have called Keanu Neal

[Pessimist_cowboy]

https://t.co/pgCIYxQsyy

 

[viman96]

FRISCO - We know that new Dallas Cowboys defensive coaches Dan Quinn and Joe Whitt Jr. are already putting their stamp on how this team will do business in 2021.

And we've always thought circling back to their previous employer, the Atlanta Falcons, is part of that stamp.

Now comes word that Dallas is indeed among the teams who have contacted free agent safety Keanu Neal.

Atlanta's defense wasn't good enough for Quinn/Whitt to win an argument about creating a talent pipeline from there to here. But Dallas is being linked to Neal - and that makes sense.

With Xavier Woods slated to become a free agent and only Donovan Wilson and Darian Thompson as playable names on the current depth chart, the Cowboys are looking for help at safety.

Neal would in theory offer that help. Maybe Damontae Kazee (mentioned here) would as well.

Neal was a 2016 first-round pick of the Falcons - when Quinn was their head coach. In 2017 he earned Pro Bowl honors. Neal started 14 games last year, with Whitt as his position coach.

 

[Gaede]

Can't be worse than Thompson. Sign em up.

 

[Carson]

Would rather go Kazee as Neal projects more of a SS. But I’m sure Quinn would make it work

 

[cowboyec]

im good with it.

 

[JBS]

Yall got interest in Neal at LB?

 

[USArmyVet]

No....just no.

 

[Carson]

Yall got interest in Neal at LB?

that would be terrible lol

 

[TequilaCowboy]

I'm all in on Neal, if it gets Thompson off the field. But has to be at FS. Wilson can man the SS spot. Would also like to draft a FS too.

 

[HomeBiscuit]

Keanu Neal is a complete beast.

 

[Risen Star]

Yall got interest in Neal at LB?

If we finally sign a well regarded S like this only to move him to LB I would piss my pants laughing.

 

[Sully]

This franchise loves picking up players from losing teams so to keep that losing tradition going

 

[Carson]

If we finally sign a well regarded S like this only to move him to LB I would piss my pants laughing.

Position flex!!!!

 

[stilltheguru]

Yall got interest in Neal at LB?

Thats what his slow azz needs to be

 

[Patrick]

Give me Neal or Hooker please.

Prefer Hooker because we have our own Neal in Wilson, but his injury history is worrisome,

 

[Gaede]

Position flex!!!!

We're only interested in players that we can move to a position they shouldn't be playing

 

[The Realist]

I'm all in on Neal, if it gets Thompson off the field. But has to be at FS. Wilson can man the SS spot. Would also like to draft a FS too.

You want a 4.62 FS?

 

[USArmyVet]

Keanu Neal is a complete beast.

Which beast? The beast of recovery seeing as how he missed almost all of 2018 and 2019 due to injuries or the beast of allowing opposing QB's to succeed seeing as he allowed a 74.2% Completion % for 564 Yards and 1 TD?

 

[tm1119]

I'm all in on Neal, if it gets Thompson off the field. But has to be at FS. Wilson can man the SS spot. Would also like to draft a FS too.

The tweet suggests that teams are looking at him as a LB for a reason. Neal plays 50+% of his snaps in the box. I don’t see how Neal and Wilson co-exist as both S’s on the same defense.

 

[robertfchew]

You want a 4.62 FS?

Sure if we're playing in 1990 where you could knock peoples heads off. Today? When players are soft and can hardly practice? No unless the guy had elite all time instincts and ball skills.