sago1 said:
Cowboys would have signed him if we had been interested in him. In fact even before FA, most of us thought Parcells would load up on former Jet players who just cut; but all we ended up with was Fabini. Seems very likely we drafting FS in early rounds & not bothering with any FAs at this time.
Same might be true re Sowell. We either like Polite or we drafting FB in latter rounds-sure would like Bernstein.
BTW: I think not signing either Sowell or Coleman result of the MRS which going around in NFL. MRS is the Marco Riveria Syndrome which means when you sign a vet player, he stands get chance to get hurt & not pay dividends desired, so let's sign younger FAs and that is exactly what happening in FA. FAs getting the big bucks are younger (under 30) while older players (Ty Law) finding the money has dried up for them. Probably also holds true for Sowell & Coleman; Fabini got signed but cheaply.
actually we had our eyes on glenn for about 1 month before we signed him in LATE April (4/26 i think) so i mean Coleman is old 2, his price will keep going down and down the longer we wait and as hes a good friend of Glenn's and adds Veteran Presence into our Young secondary, anchored by 5th year player Roy Williams.
We are most likely going to draft a FS in the 1st or 2nd round depending on how everything falls for us. and there is no doubt about the fact that Coleman is old and his #'s are dropping, but what do you do when your Rookie FS tears his ACL? What do you do if your Rookie FS comes into the NFL and does not adjust to the new level of game? This is where coleman is a very important element as he adds depth, veteran presence in a young secondary, for that matter a young Defense. and everybody knows how good he is, which is in the lower 50% of FS around the NFL.
As for Sowell he is 29 or 30 i think not exactly sure, but he also provides veteran presence in a young backfield (jones = oldest at 3 years). Lousaka Polite is young and smart from BP's prespective and he likes him, but against last year he was our only FB, hell spears came in and blocked in goal line sets a number of times. so adding Sowell not only improves our backfield but it adds experience and depth.