Team sees Mukuama as Safety

[darthseinfeld]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

I'll just say that I'm glad they are doing it with a 6th or 7th rounder as opposed to a 1st or 4th rounder...that's refreshing at least.

In their defense he did at least play some S in college. But then again so did DeAngelo Smith

 

[Hennessy_King]

I'll just say that I'm glad they are doing it with a 6th or 7th rounder as opposed to a 1st or 4th rounder...that's refreshing at least.

For real. But i am kind of looking forward to a kazee d wilson safety combo

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Ugh. More "meh", than "yeah".



Time will tell. Hope he improves.

Actually impressed especially that interception he got.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

For real. But i am kind of looking forward to a kazee d wilson safety combo

If that's the combo then I am too....if its Neal and Kazee I'm gonna throw the hell up......just off principal.

 

[Maxmadden]

Ugh. More "meh", than "yeah".



Time will tell. Hope he improves.

Well at least he won't be playing Pitts every week.

 

[Sasquatch]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

Too simple. And lacks the "we know better than everyone else" element.

 

[btcutter]

Disaster before it gets started. Byron jones, reggie robinson now this kid just draft a freakin safety

Seriously. When was the last successful conversion Dallas had?

Safety especially FS is a lot of instincts and early diagnosis of plays.

 

[btcutter]

Well at least he won't be playing Pitts every week.

That’s when Jabril Cox play.

 

[btcutter]

I'll just say that I'm glad they are doing it with a 6th or 7th rounder as opposed to a 1st or 4th rounder...that's refreshing at least.

You forgetting the major reach with Wright in the 3rd.

 

[Gaede]

He's my fav from this class too

 

[HungryLion]

For real. But i am kind of looking forward to a kazee d wilson safety combo

My fear is if one of them gets hurt. We are boned if that happens.

 

[Cowpolk]

It’ll be an interesting thing to watch. It could hit or miss, for sure. If he does work out though, it’d be a pretty big hit I think.

Certainly worth a shot at that point.

Man Woodie part 2 would be nice

 

[buybuydandavis]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

Xavier Woods 2, the Electric Boogaloo

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You forgetting the major reach with Wright in the 3rd.

They say it wasn't a reach. I'm not gonna be one of these guys to determine if a guy is a reach based on what BSPN or what a blogger says. I hope he works out. Never even seen him play honestly.

 

[gimmesix]

Listening to the Day 3 press conference Stephen just mentioned the team envisions starting Israel Mukuama out at safety. They believe he has the size (mentioned weight) and balls skills to play in that role.

Outside of Parsons, Mukuama may be my favorite pick on defense this draft class. That said, I'm not sure he has the sideline-to-sideline speed to play single high safety. I think he has a role in certain coverage units playing press man or in the red zone. We'll see. He's intriguing.

When you watch his cutups you see his lengthy clearly playing a role in creating turnovers. Too tired now, but will cutup some gifs later.

I'm OK with trying that rather than drafting safeties late who weren't considered worth a Day 1 or Day 2 pick. Mukuama obviously wasn't considered a higher pick as a corner, so maybe switching to safety will help the team get the most out of him.

 

[btcutter]

They say it wasn't a reach. I'm not gonna be one of these guys to determine if a guy is a reach based on what BSPN or what a blogger says. I hope he works out. Never even seen him play honestly.

It’s pretty sad that I trust Brugler more than our FO.

 

[gimmesix]

Add to that, the minute we drafted one CB meant Robinson was probably off the roster. Drafting 3 means someone is probably a S lol

Yeah, I think you have to try whatever you can to fix that position if you are not going to just take a free safety early.

 

[gimmesix]

I haven’t found how he ran at pro day
Have you seen his times
Side note
He played safety in HS and dome at SC

From what I've found it looks like he runs a 4.52.

 

[btcutter]

Yeah, I think you have to try whatever you can to fix that position if you are not going to just take a free safety early.

This is what really bothers me about the FO. we could have fixed the FS position for years to come just by moving up slightly to pick up TCU S instead of drafting bunch of projects! Once we have the FS now go fix rest of our needs.

 

[gimmesix]

This is what really bothers me about the FO. we could have fixed the FS position for years to come just by moving up slightly to pick up TCU S instead of drafting bunch of projects! Once we have the FS now go fix rest of our needs.

I think the fact that we absolutely needed a starting corner or would have had to start one of the nickel corners precluded us trading up for Moehrig. Remember that we did try to trade up in the round, but backed out of it when CB Tyson Campbell was gone.

Having Kazee for this year kept FS from being a bigger need than CB IMO. There was some depth at corner, but maybe we felt we couldn't get a surefire starter there if we didn't take either Campbell or Jenkins. From there, I don't think we valued any of the other safeties available, at least not over the players we selected.