Pasquarelli with some praise for our CB situation

But I don't know that we've improved our ability to cover the #1s.

True, that will obviously depend greatly on Springs... and Taylor to a degree.

What we need is Taylor and Landry to step up and cover the damn TE! It always seems like on crutial down and distance plays we have been getting beat across the middle by the TE (Witten, Shockey, etc).

I feel that our cornerbacks and secondary period is maybe one or two in the league, as far as depth wise. Now if all those former starters could translate that to success on the football field. (Springs, Smoot, and Butler return to their 2004 form. Carlos proves why he was the 9th overall pick.) And Sean Taylor and Laron Landry mess together as well as we think they will, I see no reason why we cant lead the league in interception in 2007.

And Landry will be able to guard Brian Westbrook 1 on 1 which has been a serious problem over the past couple of years.

My wish would be that our DL was as deep as our CB situation. While Butler was signed at a bargain price, he's obviously no the same player he was when we origionally sought to aquire him. It's going to be interesting to see which of these guys actually make the final 53.

Too much emphasis is placed on what is called a "shut down corner", not many who can actually claim that title in the league. The way teams play defense now with all the many combinations of coverage's "shut down" is in many ways an overstated phrase.

Mike Rumph and Kenny Wright were once starters too..

Too much emphasis is placed on what is called a "shut down corner", not many who can actually claim that title in the league. The way teams play defense now with all the many combinations of coverage's "shut down" is in many ways an overstated phrase.

Great point. With the Cover 2 / Tampa 2 scheme GW uses, I don't think having a "shut-down" corner is as critical as having two safeties who can split the field and cover ground deep (which we now appear to have) and having veteran corners who can play solid zones, not make mistakes, and tackle, so the safeties don't need to play as much run support.

Great point. With the Cover 2 / Tampa 2 scheme GW uses, I don't think having a "shut-down" corner is as critical as having two safeties who can split the field and cover ground deep (which we now appear to have) and having veteran corners who can play solid zones, not make mistakes, and tackle, so the safeties don't need to play as much run support.I thought we were getting away from that cover two stuff.

You can distribute responsiblity to the strength of the players, but ultimately if there is a weakness in one of the CBs, a good QB will take advantage of his matchups. A great unit must have some semblance of balance.

I'm more worried about our safeties than CBs anyway. Landry will get burned a lot if forced to play as a rookie, and Taylor gets burned a lot as is. That and our DL is a recipe for disaster against good passing attacks.

I hope we do a lot more man coverage this year.

I think that we are better off this year in that if Spings gets hurt, Smoot can play the #1 corner position if he gets a little help from the safety. Rogers is good against the #2. With Taylor slimming down, Fletcher's coverage skills, and other depth in the secondary, we should be set there. I can't see any good reason to let Springs go until next year.

we still have the same old pathetic pass rush. no corner in the universe can cover all day long. Mr Williams had better come up with those blitz packages he used a couple of seasons ago