Fixing the Secondary

As we all well know, the secondary is in need of some help this offseason. So here's where you post your plan for fixing the secondary.


Safety:

Cut/Let Walk: Reed Doughty, Trenton Robinson

Sign in FA: Chris Clemons-1 year, Kendrick Lewis-3 years

Resign: Brandon Meriweather-1 year, Jose Gumbs-1 year

Draft: No one. Unless, of course, Deone Bucannon falls to the 4th. LOL.

UDFAs: Johnathan Dowling, Daniel Sorensen. Obviously, any projected UDFA can easily be drafted, but assuming these two aren't, I'd love to bring them in to compete for depth.


Cornerback

Cut/Let Walk: Josh Wilson, E.J. Biggers

Sign in FA: Alterraun Verner-5 years, Chris Owens-1 year

Resign: DeAngelo Hall-2 years

Draft: Ricardo Allen

UDFAs: Phillip Gaines, Dexter McDougle

I can agree with all of this except we absolutely need to cut Meriweather and I'd rather keep Doughty.

Cut/Let Walk: Reed Doughty,



Hell no. He's the one bright spot in the group. I'd much rather have him than BM.

I can agree with all of this except we absolutely need to cut Meriweather and I'd rather keep Doughty.

Well, I'm sure many fans agree that Meriweather needs to go. But my thinking is that he can stay on a 1 year deal and compete with Clemons for the starting SS spot. He played well near the end of last year, and he's our hardest hitter. And if you release Meriweather and Clemons gets hurt, then you have Thomas, who is practically a rookie, starting. I want depth in the secondary, particulary safety, this next year.

Doughty is a solid backup and a very good special teams player. Unless his play starts to decline or we can find someone to fit both roles, I'm okay keeping him.

I think the team needs to part ways with Merriweather, but as long as we have a solid replacement.

At Corner:
re-sign DeAngelo Hall and E.J. Biggers
Sign Tracy Porter or Sam Shields
Draft Shaquille Richardson

At Safety:
FS Jairus Byrd and SS Chris Clemmons
sign Taylor Mays
resign Reed Doughty

Resign hall to a 1 or 2 year deal. Sign Sam shields to a josh Wilson-like deal. Let biggers, wilson walk. Plan on Crawford, Minnefield, and Amerson back.

At SS, let Rambo, Thomas and sign a vet ss to a 1 year deal to fight it out for the position. Sign a vet to a mult-year deal at Free Safety.

Is there a good pass rusher in the draft? A good pass rush can make a bad secondary look good.

Louis Delmas was just cut by the Lions for salary cap reasons. I am not sure what type of $$ he'll be looking for but I would put him up there right after Byrd as far as top free agent safeties go. I think the Redskins should looking into using some of the money they'd use to sign Meriweather and put it towards signing Delmas instead.

Cut Doughty? No! he is one of the very few players that earned his paycheck last year. The veteran minimum for a guy who is consistent and respected by his teammates is worth it.

To fix the secondary, you need to fix the Dline.