Your Thoughts On The Safeties

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(03-07-2017, 12:45 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: IMO the safeties are just fine. They started out rough (as did the D as a whole), but looked solid as they season progressed. Could we do better? Sure, but I think they're both above average. People are just salty that Reggie is gone and they're being tougher on Iloka/Williams than they should be because of it.

The safeties stopped being liabilities as the season went on, after it was too late, that is, but they didn't make plays, they didn't change games.  Great Safeties elevate entire defenses.  That's why the best ones go in the top ten.  They matter.   I see ours as average, at best.   Look at great defenses over the years.  See what the Safeties look like.

Maybe the position isn't at the top of the needs list, but if you can get the best one in the draft, you have to take him.  But that's the same for any position.

As far as I'm concerned, the Bengals will be a long shot to make the playoffs, depending on what FA's we lose, so you're not saving the season with the draft.  That is just hoping for a miracle.

So, get great players in this rebuild.  Not really fair to the core players to have to go through this but this is where we are.  I'm looking at you, PA.

There's only one way to blow the number 9, and that is by not getting a great player.  I don't care what position he plays.  He just has to have a profound impact.  Safety is a position that can do that.  The Bengals won't take one first.  They have too much invested in the incumbents.  Finance will always win out around here.  But I can't see being married to those two.  All they'll ever be is okay.