Originally Posted by staylor26:
I think some of you fail to realize that there’s an extreme shortage of good corners in today’s NFL. Why do you think somebody like Steven Nelson got paid?
What should Veach have done? Overpaid for somebody like Trumaine Johnson or Malcolm Butler last year? This years best free agent is nowhere near healthy to start the year, and we got one of the top guys available.
Veach clearly sees what we see at corner, but he’s not going to severely overpay or make a panic move to fix it because that’s how you fuck yourself. We’re way better off than we were at this time last year and our safeties are 100% better. That’s good enough for now.
This sums up my feelings. It was just too pricey to massively upgrade the position so we made a couple small improvements and invested in positions like safety and pass rusher that will make them look better. Plus we switched to a simpler scheme. I expect our corner play to be improved even if it isn't a strength. [Reply]
I like the LSU connection. I like this move overall because Claiborne is cheap, adds competition to a pedestrian group, wont take up a roster spot until after the served suspension, and should be motivated playing next to the Honey Badger. I expect he'll never shake that "bust" label, however. He's just another dude, a lottery ticket. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThyKingdomCome15:
Improved over last year at a minimum. Going from Ammerson to Schandrick was a signal of things to come.
Yep.
The thing that concerns me this year is how they're apparently looking to use Fuller as the primary slot corner. Someone posted a stat from last year showing Fuller as one of the worst slot corners in the NFL in 2018, yet one of the best outside corners when we used him there. Now that might speak to just how shitty our safety and over the top help was last year, I guess we'll see. Just mark me down as cautious at this point at Fuller playing primarily inside. Honey Badger has to help with that, right? [Reply]
The thing that concerns me this year is how they're apparently looking to use Fuller as the primary slot corner. Someone posted a stat from last year showing Fuller as one of the worst slot corners in the NFL in 2018, yet one of the best outside corners when we used him there. Now that might speak to just how shitty our safety and over the top help was last year, I guess we'll see. Just mark me down as cautious at this point at Fuller playing primarily inside. Honey Badger has to help with that, right?
Fuller’s best season of his career was in 2017 playing primarily inside. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
So Veach, Reid, Spags etc, the guys who signed him up, are less intelligent than YOU when it comes to this game? Is that what you're saying? :-)
IF Patrick Peterson was available even with the 6 game suspension how many teams would be lined up to sign him ? ALL 31. Same can't be said of MC because not only is he intellectually challenged in learning the NFL game but he is soft(injury prone). We'll be lucky to get 8 out of the 12 remaining games from him this season.
Since MC came into the league as a 1st rd 6th overall pick, his name is never mentioned when elite NFL shutdown CBs are talked about PERIOD. Mentioned in the same group with Peterson, Ramsey, Lattimore, Hargreaves etc... ??? Not even close!!:-)
This is purely "taking a flyer" desperation move by the Chiefs brass in hopes he might just pan out but will not be disappointed if he doesn't because they know who they are signing.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
Fuller’s best season of his career was in 2017 playing primarily inside.
I remember the hype of him playing the slot when he came here. Did the Redskins run a 4-3 zone in 2017? I have no idea what defense he was playing in before we traded for him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I remember the hype of him playing the slot when he came here. Did the Redskins run a 4-3 zone in 2017? I have no idea what defense he was playing in before we traded for him.
I believe it was more similar to Spags scheme than Sutton’s but I could be wrong. [Reply]
