Free Safety spot still open

[Kdawg954]

Because if you look at the history of ball hawking free safeties - like Ed Reed, Darren Sharper, Ronnie Lott - virtually all were ball hawks in college. It's virtually unheard of for a guy to be stone handed in college, and in the NFL for a few years, then suddenly become a ball hawking free safety later in his NFL career.

If Chris Clemons turns around and becomes a ball hawking free safety, it will be the first time in NFL history.

All I'm saying is, as great as it would be to have a "ball hawk" at FS, I am not willing to give up consistency for it. I think Reshad Jones has to be heads and shoulders better than Clemmons to win the job and honestly I haven't seen enough of either guy in the preseason, hell our secondary has not been tested at all in the preseason.

When it comes to the basics, Clemmons is head and shoulders above Jones . . . Jones brings that "wildcard" ability that I think Mike Nolan wants from his FS. If Jones wins the job, I'm cool with it, but if you are asking me who I "think" should be starting, I think its Clemmons. We don't need any surprises on this defense, we know our weakness last year was in the middle of the field . . . our secondary was very consistent with the occassional lapse . . . I don't wanna have that middle of the field problem fixed and then have a guy back there teams are picking on.

 

[MiamiDolphin618]

I hope one of them separates themselves this week. I hope TB challenges us down the field. KDawg you are right, nobody has even challenged our starters in the secondary to the point where we can even get a good read on them. We know Brady will, so I hope we are ready.

 

[BARF]

or we just play 3dl 3lb 3safties and 2 cbs the whole year, actually we might need that defense we play a lot of teams that have good wr sets

 

[sharp]

"Much More" of a liability? What game footage have you seen to come to that conclusion? I watched every game last year and didn't see anything like that. The fact that the competition is still open is a testament to the fact that they are both regarded as starting caliber.

Well we are getting the opposite responses from the guys who want Jones in there day 1. They say Jones makes those plays and is the best FS. Theres nothing that says that either.

IMO I want both of these guys to play. Clemons at FS and Jones at SS. That won't happen till next season, but Clemons is the starter this season I think. We look back and say man he had some stone hands but he was in great position for those plays. It was freakishly ridiculous how much every single player in our secondary dropped easy picks, I think it was merely flukely. Clemons will catch that Bengals INT 9/10 and will get more this year.