To All Who Wanted to Sign FS Chris Hope (PIT)...

[ravidubey]

Hope wants to stay in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh wants to keep him; sounds like 25% chance at best of him leaving.

 

[junk]

I'm always wary of the non-great player who's stock shoots through the roof in free agency because his team won the Superbowl. Remember when the Raiders paid out the nose to pay Larry Brown shutdown CB money right after he won the Superbowl MVP? Nobody even knew who Chris Hope was 2 months ago, and now he's one of the premium free agents on the market? Talk about buying high.

Some of us knew who he was. Pittsburgh winning the Super Bowl was the worst thing that could happen for Dallas. Might have been able to get a young, rising player on the cheap.

Probably won't happen now.

 

[J-DOG]

Signing Hope or signing a player who has the same type of skills as a Hope is a must.
Keyword to look for...coverage skills.
Roy is what he is.
Roy is never going to be a great cover player(Moss in the first Commander game exposed that).
So getting a FS who can cover is a must.
For the last 5yrs or so we have had nothing but slow hard hitting safeties around here.
It's pathetic.
It's like we are burying our head in the sand and acting like Davis,Scott or Dixon can play deep coverage.
Give me a break!
We have had this same problem year after year.
Let's stop trying to coach these guys up and get some new blood in here.
Guys who can run and have ball skills to play some coverage.
Chavous is smart but I doubt he has the speed we need back there.
Michael Huff would be perfect.
To make a long story short...I'm tired of us getting slow safeties to play along side of Roy. Grizzled vets are not the answer so let's get some young vets or draft picks with speed to play FS.