Agree with you on your assesment, with the free safety issue, that watkins and hamlin will battle it out for the spot, i still have hopes for watkins, he has the deep speed and the jumping ability, boy can he ever jump. If you look alittle deeper, in certain situations hamlin could even pressure roy williams at strong safey to play better. Roy, needs to knock off about 12 pounds, and come in about 230 or so, not 245 or 242. that is way too much for a strong safety.
I think they see something in stanley, you got to remember,most defensive linemen dont come into their own till about their 2nd or 3rd season, and stanley did come off a perctoral injury his senior year (chest injury), so you would think he couldnt play as good as he did. THen, if anybody can challenge stanley it should be Wade Phillips. I read one report from a well respected analyst and he said, if wade phillips can get stanley to get his head out of his hindquarters, then he will have a heck of a player. So, potential is there. Now for me, i still would like the Cowboys to get Walter Thomas, all 6-5 369 pounds of him, with a 525 pound bench press and 600 squat, I am drooling for the cowboys to get him, and let Walter Thomas meet Shawn Andrews, now that would be a war, then you add in this kid has only about 20 pounds of body fat, and he runs 40 in 4.9 to 5.2, thats awesome with the backflip he can do.
As to our offensive linemen we drafted, I think Marten will be groomed to take the place of Colombo in 2 years, if you remember, jerry jones said about 2 weeks ago that we have a rookie that were looking at, and this rookie has potential to be just as good as the vet, that we will have to pay 20 million dollars in 2 years, something like that. Doug Free will play left tackle, and i think they will see if McQuistan can play LOG, now, if they do that within 2 years, then you will have to draft backup offensive linemen, but in long term, i think you will have your offensive linemen fixed.
the key for us, is how well spencer can play left outside linebacker and put pressure in blitzes, helping ware. I think carpenter will be put back inside, he has the speed to cover deep down the middle, as you all know, bradie james and fowler couldnt cover.
the next big key for us, and something that everyone is overlooking is our 7th round draft choice in courtney brown, whom is 6-1, 205, and reported running about a 4.34 in 40, and he can cover and intercept. If he can play, and i cant think of the kids name, that was a 7th round draft choice for the giants in their super bowl run in 2000, he was all world and just as big as brown, adn fast. If you all look, at last year, our defensive backs, glenn, reeves and nate jones just werent getting it done at the end of the year, we need a young impact cornerback,
finally, if stanback is a good as everyone thinks he is, 6-2, 216 with a reported speed of 4.37 to 4.42 before his foot surgery, if he can run and help us on special teams, specifically punts, look out,
then, we got 3 very interesting undrafted free agents, moore QB that jaws was high on, and several scouts, battle a rb with 4.42 in 40, with good size 6-2 238, and i think he can push tyson thompson, then the rb from hapmton and the big huge te from houston that has only played one year of football, rodney hannah i th ink, whom is 6-8, 245, about a 4.75 in 40, whom was a former basketball player at college, which i am sure he can jump.
