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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 Can you say "Dan Morgan"
Roy Williams (???) He has the same coverage deficiencies as ST. He is the worst cover safety in football and he has a good front 7.
Bob Sanders - Why because Trent Green threw two balls to him? Sanders was hurt all year.
Yeremiah Bell - Who?
Michael Boulware (???) Um, no.
Mike Brown - Isn't his career in jeopardy?
Donovan Darius - Isn't he out for the year?
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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I would only consider Reed and Dawkins over Taylor but they are considerably older.
I do like the idea of letting Taylor play some linebacker (didn't he do this some against the Giants?) and moving our safeties around.
Feel free to dismiss but what if they actually gave Archuleta some playing time by letting him line up at FS if Taylor lines up at LB. That would also be predicated on Springs, Fox, Vincent and or Prieleau bieng able to handle the coverage duties back there. Seems like a logical package in run situations.