Movin' On Up (The Draft Board)

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Originally Posted by RobH4413

I agree, I think he'll eventually become a #1 corner. He's physical, he's fast, he's smart.

All the calls for his head probably are ignorant. A large number of fans were judging the guy (playing fantastic as of late) who was put in a terrible situation. I haven't broken his play down, if I had more time I would love too, but generally speaking you can't call a guy terrible because he doesn't shut down the teams #1 receiver in a terrible defense.

Albeit, he may not be a #1 corner now, but nevertheless he's got the potential. If your looking to the draft to make the defense better, then a cb as a first rounder may not be the best bet.

I would probably draft a stud cover-safety to back-up sean taylor. I don't know how good the safties are in the up-coming draft, but I'd love to be enlightened if anyone has a good idea.

Needless to say, we need DB depth. It's killed us the past two years, and we better learn our lesson.

He seems like a career #2. He can shut down the oppositions second reciever with fair consistency and he plays the run very, very well. We just need to pair him with a CB who can shutdown a team's #1.

I think we have plenty of capable DBs as is, but what we lack is QUALITY corner depth. I think Springs is still good enough to be the #1 corner, but we have to decide whether or not he can be trusted to stay healty. If he can't it's going to be costly to bring in another shutdown corner like a Nate Clements, and we may have to spend our first round pick there.

If we have to, I suggest a defense that plays with 3 CBs and 1 safety. Since our CBs are so good at tackling, we could keep a third corner up on the tight end to take that option away. I think ST is good enough to play sideline to sideline if we need to go man.

I really don't want to have to invest that much money or a high pick in a CB if we think we can get away with Springs for one more season (i.e. his injures arent chronic). I know its risky to rely on his health one more year when we got burned bad this year, but risks have to be taken if we want to turn this around in one season.