2013 Free Agents

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

I hear that we have interest in Louis "injury prone" Delmas of Detroit.

Superbowl!

[JoeRedskin]

Delmas could be a low risk high reward type guy. Not sure what kind of injury he had, just that it was a knee and kept him out of 8 games this year. He was a good/very good safety his first couple years and, if recovered could be a nice pick up.

"If recovered" being key.

[GWinSkins83]

Louis Delmas would be a good signing and draft he's student Jonathan Cyprien. Safety problem solved. Next it might be out there but Titus Young would be a beast in this offense. Him and Pierre would be a dynamic duo.

[Jayroc24]

I personally think we need a scat back, a Darren Sporles type. Morris is a powerful runner. Additionally, I think Fred Davis is luxury we cannot afford with the cap number the way it is, I hope he resigns... Just dont see it.

Safeties, I acutally think we will be okay with what we have. Merriweather and Jackson should come back strong, Corners started to play very well on the back half of the season, now if they can keep it up remains to be seen. Hopefully Minnifield and Crawford will have a good camp, but nothing to bank on just yet. Orakpo and Kerrigan should help with the pass rush, with Jackson being a strong rotational guy.

I might be in the minority, I just do not think we need that much to really turn the corner. RGIII needs to be a better passer and the damn wide receivers are getting open but struggle to catch the ball.

Right tackle is a concern, but the left side and interior looked pretty solid.

As much as we all love Fletcher, he is getting old and losing speed quickly. MLB has to be a area of need.

I think we all agree there is going to be some money that will need to be moved around and/or restructured.

This offseason I would look more toward depth versus the big name signings.....

Thoughts?

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by Jayroc24

I personally think we need a scat back, a Darren Sporles type. Morris is a powerful runner. Additionally, I think Fred Davis is luxury we cannot afford with the cap number the way it is, I hope he resigns... Just dont see it.

Agree with you that a scat back would be nice, but i dont think its a super high priority. if helu comes back, he could fill that role... i dont think Davis will be that expensive to resign. Between the injury and suspension, i dont think he'll be in high demand. 3Mil/year should be enough to keep him.

Safeties, I acutally think we will be okay with what we have. Merriweather and Jackson should come back strong, Corners started to play very well on the back half of the season, now if they can keep it up remains to be seen. Hopefully Minnifield and Crawford will have a good camp, but nothing to bank on just yet. Orakpo and Kerrigan should help with the pass rush, with Jackson being a strong rotational guy.

I agree with you here. It would be nice to upgrade the defensive backfield, but as you mentioned, play improved as the season went on. I think our DBs will be "ok" as long as we have orakpo and carriker back take the pressure off our DBs.

I might be in the minority, I just do not think we need that much to really turn the corner. RGIII needs to be a better passer and the damn wide receivers are getting open but struggle to catch the ball.

I agree with your first sentence, but dont think RGIII needs to be a better passer. He already IS a great passer. I chalk his late season accuracy struggles, to the injury preventing him from planting properly. Receivers do need to do a better job of catching the ball. It seems, as a group, they either all caught everything or they all dropped everything in any given game. not sure what that wasabout.

Right tackle is a concern, but the left side and interior looked pretty solid.

I agree with you. The sad thing is, there are quite a few stud RTs coming available this offseason, but we wont have alot of money to sign them. Maybe one of last years rookies steps up and we can get buy with adding a lower-tier value RT in free agency to compete for a starting spot/add valuable depth.

As much as we all love Fletcher, he is getting old and losing speed quickly. MLB has to be a area of need.

Fletcher IS getting old, but i dont agree that he's losing speed quickly or that MLB is an area of need. He had one horrible game vs the steelers, but, other than that, was exceptional.

He was 8th in the league in combined tackles/assists last year.

He was 7th in interceptions .

He was 1st in interceptions among linebackers.

London Fletcher is one of the leagues elite linebackers. Period.

Obvioulsy, he cant keep playing at this level forever, but he's shown very little signs of slowing down. For the money, we wont find anyone better to QB our defense. We have guys on the roster who we're grooming to step in when he does retire, but we dont need to actively go out looking for someone.

I think we all agree there is going to be some money that will need to be moved around and/or restructured.

This offseason I would look more toward depth versus the big name signings.....

Thoughts?

I agree with your thoughts. If we didnt have the 18MM cap hit, id say we should sign atleast 2 top DBs and a stud RT, but given the hit, i think our top "big signings" should be resigning Fred Davis and the one man gang.

[Chico23231]

JayRoc, Ive been calling for a 3rd down, change of pace back as well. I think there is a need and Helu cant stay healthy. So I strongly agree there.

But safeties and corners you're completely wrong. Merriweather was injuried all year and Jackson is a tweed head. Jackson absolutely should not come back. Merriweather should be back, but you cannot depend on him. We need a new starter at FS and another young draft pick at SS. We need major work at CB too. Hall cap number is way to large, Minnefield is chronically injured and Crawford is still a project.

We can afford Davis and think he is a must sign. We have the leverage there as well. I expect a small deal with decent numbers.

[MTK]

T. Jackson can't have his case heard for reinstatement until 8/31/13 at the earliest. Probably not a good idea to rely on him for anything.

[Monkeydad]

I believe we'll see Hightower back. He should be healthy by now after sitting out a whole year. He'd make an excellent 3rd-down back. He gets yards in big chunks and is also a great pass-blocker.

Hopefully he can stay healthy if only used on occasional 3rd downs along with Helu.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

I believe we'll see Hightower back. He should be healthy by now after sitting out a whole year. He'd make an excellent 3rd-down back. He gets yards in big chunks and is also a great pass-blocker.

Hopefully he can stay healthy if only used on occasional 3rd downs along with Helu.

I wouldn't mind seeing Hightower come back. He's a perfect fit here.

[SmootSmack]

Well Slaton is still out there, and we showed a lot of interest in Justin Forsett and Antone Smith (though he's an RFA) last summer as well

Personally I'm not against taking a look at Reggie Bush either

[Monkeydad]

He's going to want too much money to play second fiddle to Morris.

[Chico23231]

Reggie Bush is gonna be looking to get paid. And I think someone is gonna dish out, think we will get priced out with our cap issues. Is he gonna be 28 when the season starts? Think he'd probably want to go someone with a big role.

[T.O.Killa]

Is it true that Roy Helu is still not running

[SmootSmack]

I don't know that specifically. I know his recovery has been slower than expected

[punch it in]

Can we afford to sign everyone plus beef up the oline, and secondary and keep helu, morris, and hightower? I know it depends alot on the draft but again i just dont see running back as a position where we need to spend money. Mlb, secondary, oline.