Who are your starting Safeties

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

A back up, rookie safety gets hurt, and people are already acting as if we lost a starter for the year.

Chill people. And I think our starters are meriweather and Rambo.

I agree. Thomas might not have started all year long. But let's also remember Meriweather basically didn't play last year, before that he was cut by both NE and Chicago.

[Monkeydad]

Thomas was key depth and a possible starter-in-waiting for one of the worst secondaries in the NFL last year. He was an important player going into 2013. All of the secondary upgrades are. Our starters and immediate backups were finally starting to look promising. Now, our depth is looking less and less stable with no Thomas and we know Meriweather won't play 16 games.

If we lose Rambo, our safety positions are EXACTLY where they were last year with Doughty, Gomes, Pugh...is Bernstein healthy? Move Hall to FS with Amerson starting at CB?

I'm not panicking yet but don't kid yourself, this is a big loss.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Thomas was key depth and a possible starter-in-waiting for one of the worst secondaries in the NFL last year. He was an important player going into 2013. All of the secondary upgrades are. Our starters and immediate backups were finally starting to look promising. Now, our depth is looking less and less stable with no Thomas and we know Meriweather won't play 16 games.

If we lose Rambo, our safety positions are EXACTLY where they were last year with Doughty, Gomes, Pugh...is Bernstein healthy? Move Hall to FS with Amerson starting at CB?

I'm not panicking yet but don't kid yourself, this is a big loss.

Actually if we lose Rambo we also will not have our starter from last year M.Williams. Also Bernstine was waived by the Skins around the start of camp.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Actually if we lose Rambo we also will not have our starter from last year M.Williams. Also Bernstine was waived by the Skins around the start of camp.

True but losing Madieu is addition by subtraction...he was horrible. I'd take Doughty over him every day of the week; he can't cover but he is one of the surest-tacklers in the game.

Originally Posted by WaldSkins

Wilson and Reed unfortunately

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Josh Wilson? He's a CB...

Unless there's a Wilson I'm forgetting.

Wilson is DeJon Gomes' nickname. His high school coach couldn't figure out how to pronounce DeJon, so he started calling him Wilson Gomes.

[skinsfan69]

Rambo and then who knows. We know with a rookie back there we're going to have growing pains at free safety. Strong safety is a mess. We don't have anyone there that can cover anyone.

[MTK]

Who's bugging out over the loss of Thomas exactly? I took it as we're just talking about the safety group.

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Who's bugging out over the loss of Thomas exactly? I took it as we're just talking about the safety group.

I think everyone is just generally nervous about the safety situation.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by donofriose

I think everyone is just generally nervous about the safety situation.

With or without Thomas I get that.

But I don't think anyone is "freaking out" over Thomas as some have said.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

With or without Thomas I get that.

But I don't think anyone is "freaking out" over Thomas as some have said.

It's more so that a thread asking about our safeties happened to be made the next day after Thomas got injured. Slight panic reaction in my eyes. I'm not saying this in a distaste for the thread (it's a good thread) but there are people out there on the Internet radio etc who were panicking big time yesterday when Phillip got hurt. That and this thread along with other posts, tweets, voices etc made me post that.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

It's more so that a thread asking about our safeties happened to be made the next day after Thomas got injured. Slight panic reaction in my eyes. I'm not saying this in a distaste for the thread (it's a good thread) but there are people out there on the Internet radio etc who were panicking big time yesterday when Phillip got hurt. That and this thread along with other posts, tweets, voices etc made me post that.

Speaking for myself I'm just bummed he's done for the year. Starter or not it would have been nice to see him get some valuable experience this year.

[over the mountain]

is rambo really starter ready? I havent followed camp hard but ... idk about a rookie starting the season. i would defer to haslett.

i would like to see a healthy merriweather and ______________. if it has to be reed, im okay with it. if its rambo, that means he earned it and im okay with it. if they dont think rambo will take over the starting job by the mid-point of the season, i wouldnt mind kicking the tires on a player not currently on the team ... but we dont have cap space i assume . . .

i liked what little i saw of pugh. not sure about being a starter though.

[wordsmithgk]

I like DeJon Gomes but he is a backup and spot starter

[skinsfan69]

Bottom line, safety is still going to be messy. Hopefully a better pass rush can help.

[GTripp0012]

It's probably best to play the waiver wire. That's not going to net you a week one starter, but still, this is a pretty brutal position. The positive side of that is that it's going to be fairly easy to upgrade.

I'm going to do a roster analysis to see if any team in the NFL is carrying five or six versatile safeties, because if you know one is going to get moved, you can jump in and make a trade or try to get him on waivers.

At least our corners are looking much better. That's a pretty huge improvement from 2012.

[Chico23231]

Losing a rookie in his first camp sets him way behind in his development, thats my biggest concern at this point.

Thomas would certainly been in the rotation for play in sub packages. After thinking about it, its a bigger loss maybe than I initially thought.

I do think we will work the waiver wire on this one, even with the guys we got in camp.

Wild card is def Tanard Jackson, hope he realizes this is probably his last shot and needs to bring it.