READ OP!!! Redskins Free Agency '12 2.0 (UDFA) (signed: Garcon, Merriweather, Morgan, Griffin, Lee, Williams, Torrence, Jackson, Kehl, Wilson, Rackers, Goff; re-signed: Fletcher, Carriker, Grossman, Golston, Hightower (Lich signs tender)

[MrJL]

As we currently stand, I'd rather Meriweather at free and Gomes at SS. Your gona' be playing one or the other out of their natural position regardless. Might as well be the vet. who's at least played for a duration in that role. But I can see a safety being drafted with a view to starting, so I don't think it will play out like that. Or a few other positions Rich has down already.

Hail.

corners convert to free safety all the time

[RWJ]

I think BM will be cut sometime during the preseason.

[jivelikenice]

Well, who else would do it?

Its good to get a little confirmation though that he was brought in as a safety and not a corner, especially given the injury history. Lets hope he cane make the transition well. That does leave nickel corner as a spot that needs to be addressed and we'll have to find some overall secondary depth in the draft.

[steve09ru]

As we currently stand, I'd rather Meriweather at free and Gomes at SS. Your gona' be playing one or the other out of their natural position regardless. Might as well be the vet. who's at least played for a duration in that role. But I can see a safety being drafted with a view to starting, so I don't think it will play out like that. Or a few other positions Rich has down already.

Hail.

Isn't moving Meriweather to free safety what dropped his productivity and had him play so poorly last year with Chicago? It's harder to transition a SS to play FS over a Corner to FS

I think we'd be better off playing Cedric at FS over Meriweather

[NLC1054]

As we currently stand, I'd rather Meriweather at free and Gomes at SS. Your gona' be playing one or the other out of their natural position regardless. Might as well be the vet. who's at least played for a duration in that role. But I can see a safety being drafted with a view to starting, so I don't think it will play out like that. Or a few other positions Rich has down already.

Hail.

I think we bought in Meriweather to play strong safety, period. He's not suited to play free safety. Gomes kind of played three roles in college; he played some nickel, he played some free, he played some strong. He'd probably be best suited at strong, but he's still more able to adapt. Meriweather's play suffered when he moved to free safety; he's just not suited to be out there in space playing center field. So I think he'll be strong safety, and he'll compete with Gomes to be strong safety.

And they'll move Griffin to free safety, which seemed like it'd be a good fit from the start, and is even better now that he's lost a step.

---------- Post added March-24th-2012 at 12:10 PM ----------

Its good to get a little confirmation though that he was brought in as a safety and not a corner, especially given the injury history. Lets hope he cane make the transition well. That does leave nickel corner as a spot that needs to be addressed and we'll have to find some overall secondary depth in the draft.

We might just like Barnes duke it out with Thompson and see what happens.

Though Thompson does strike me as more of an outside corner and not an inside guy. Still remember that INT he got against the Colts; ran the route for the receiver, played the ball in the air and picked it off perfect. Think there's a reason we kept him around.

I think it'll be important that all these young DBs we bought in will FINALLY have a full offseason to work with. And despite everyone being so worried about it, we've got a lot more flexiability than we did before; Barnes can play free safety, Gomes can be flexible, Griffin can be flexible, Reed can...well...can work special teams...lol...

[MartinC]

As we currently stand, I'd rather Meriweather at free and Gomes at SS. Your gona' be playing one or the other out of their natural position regardless. Might as well be the vet. who's at least played for a duration in that role. But I can see a safety being drafted with a view to starting, so I don't think it will play out like that. Or a few other positions Rich has down already.

Hail.

Meriweather is strictly a SS, if he has to play FS we are in trouble. He does not have the speed to cover sideline to sideline or the discipline to play deep coverage. Remember when Landry played back there and bit on double move after double move - think of that but worse.

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

Meriweather is strictly a SS, if he has to play FS we are in trouble. He does not have the speed to cover sideline to sideline or the discipline to play deep coverage. Remember when Landry played back there and bit on double move after double move - think of that but worse.

With him or Gomes playing free we're gona' be in big trouble back there. Both are archetypal SS. But until something better comes along (and Griffin's a nickel guy at best. Not a starting safety conversion); the choices are limited.

But again, I fully expect it to be a non-issue and for them to draft a FS they think can start from the get-go.

Hail.

[MartinC]

With him or Gomes playing free we're gona' be in big trouble back there. Both are archetypal SS. But until something better comes along (and Griffin's a nickel guy at best. Not a starting safety conversion); the choices are limited.

But again, I fully expect it to be a non-issue and for them to draft a FS they think can start from the get-go.

Hail.

Thing is its hard to project a guy you draft in the 3rd round as a day 1 starter. We need a RT as well and that might be a candidate for that 3rd rounder as well depending who is still available. You have to go BPA reaching to fill a need in the middle rounds is what gets you in trouble but I will be surprised if that 3rd round pick is not either a DB or OL (as much as I would love it to be Ryan Broyles).

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

Still hopeful we wouldn't be so foolish, regardless of need, to overlook a talent like Broyles if he does indeed fall into our laps in the fourth la.

Hail.

[C.Felix]

Still hopeful we wouldn't be so foolish, regardless of need, to overlook a talent like Broyles if he does indeed fall into our laps in the fourth la.

Hail.

Co-sign this fully..Broyles will be a stud.

[Santana_Fan]

I think BM will be cut sometime during the preseason.

Are you referring to his skill level? Lol

[SnyderShrugged]

Are you referring to his skill level? Lol

I had a similar thought! LOL, I cringe thinking of that term used when I was a little kid.

[STBonecrusher21]

Lofton to Saints: per Schefter.

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

Lofton to Saints: per Schefter.

That's gota' smart if your Atlanta.

Hail.

[SKINS'n'Spurs]

That's gota' smart if your Atlanta.

Hail.

Per twitter:
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
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Saints said they have reached agreement on a 5-year deal with former Falcons LB Curtis Lofton.

So now we hope that London isn't a target for the Falcons(edit)?
This has really been a slow trickle of a LB FA run in the last week. I guess all signs are pointing to LF59 sticking with us