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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
Someone said there weren't three safeties he would take over Sean Taylor even with his shortcomings being exposed this year. Consider please:
Ed Reed
Brian Dawkins
Troy Polamalu
Roy Williams (???) He has the same coverage deficiencies as ST.
Bob Sanders
Yeremiah Bell
Michael Boulware (???)
Mike Brown
Donovan Darius
There are seven I'd take over Taylor right now in 2007 and two others who I'd have to think about for a while. And if I went team-by-team to look at rosters, I might come up with a couple of others...
Here's my idea for the Redskins defense next year:
1. Tell Sean Taylor to add 20 pounds of muscle in the off-season because he's going to be an outside linebacker next year.
2. Find a safety somewhere who can COVER people and then let Archuletta be the safety who does run support and handles the slower tight-end/fullback coverage assignments.
3. While Taylor has prodigious physical skills, I suspect that he does not have the instincts/mental acumen to be a safety because when you get suckered in at safety the result is a LONG game or a TD. If you get suckered in at LB, there's still help behind you.
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Wow, the guy has two great years at safety where he covered the likes of TO and Randy Moss and they did nothing against him, and the defense has a bad year and you decide he cant cover, he should become a LB. The list of safetys you put ahead of him is a joke, saying he and Roy Williams have the same coverage skills is laughable, Roy Williams cant cover a soul, hes the most overrated player in all of the NFL. The fact that you dont seem to understand that half of his troubles this year came from the awful pass rush, Carlos Rogers utter inability to cover backup recievers, and the terrible experiment we like to refer to as "Adam Archuletta". Sean Taylor can cover, he can run support and dominates when he doesnt have to do everything on his own. Look at the supporting cast of all those safetys you listed and them compare them to Seans situation, its really unfair. This is typical of most Redskins fans who catch three or four games a year, then decide they now all about football.