Stephen Jones talks Free Safety
Mike Kurkjian, Gaithersburg, Md.: Will the Cowboys look at Ken Hamlin, Deon Grant, or Mike Doss? The free safety position has been one of if not their biggest defensive problem each of the past four years. Why not go out and get a pretty good one when they are available? Would they prefer a safety in the draft?
Mickey: That's still a possibility. But when asked Monday about going after one of the top free-agent safeties, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said the Cowboys won't be paying a $10 million signing bonus for a free safety. He said the club still is high on the two young guys they have, Patrick Watkins and Abram Elam. He said if they picked up a veteran safety, it might be later in free agency when the prices come down. And as for Hamlin and Doss, aren't those guys a poor man's Roy Williams? They are guys who must play in the box more than centerfield. And I'll say it one more time, the problem at safety might not be the free safety, it just might be the strong safety has to improve his reads when playing in zone coverage.
Mickey: That's still a possibility. But when asked Monday about going after one of the top free-agent safeties, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said the Cowboys won't be paying a $10 million signing bonus for a free safety. He said the club still is high on the two young guys they have, Patrick Watkins and Abram Elam. He said if they picked up a veteran safety, it might be later in free agency when the prices come down. And as for Hamlin and Doss, aren't those guys a poor man's Roy Williams? They are guys who must play in the box more than centerfield. And I'll say it one more time, the problem at safety might not be the free safety, it just might be the strong safety has to improve his reads when playing in zone coverage.
posted by The Gryphon at 9:08 PM
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