2010 NFL Off-Season Rumors and Reports (Week 3)

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Originally Posted by Pocket$ $traight

'06 was ST's worst year, it also happened to be his 3rd year. Landry is still very young, I think he could improve immensely.

I think your description could have described Landry last year or Taylor in '06. To the "t".

Agreed.

The common solution to the Landry dilemma, among fans, appears to be to push Horton and Doughty into backup roles while we play him at the non-premium strong safety position.

This would be taking the easy road out, I think, as we can scrap two of the players on the team we have the least investment in while trying to salvage a third. But to me, it's questionable whether Landry can even outplay either Horton or Doughty in the box.

So I say: he's physically gifted enough, let's keep him back there as a traditional coverage safety and just change the way he's supposed to be reading the offense. Whatever Blache/Gray/Jackson were doing, let's change it. If he can adapt and reach his potential, great. If not, I'd rather release him a year from now as opposed to try to work an extension with him as a strong safety.