Bringing in a guy who played well in man coverage makes perfect sense for a Gregg Williams defense. If we are giving up the Chiefs 6th and not our own, then we basically gave up a 7th. I'm fine with it.
11 starts in 2 seasons. Young, experienced, made a few plays. Not bad. Compared to the stiffs we drafted and added before the current regime that never saw the field, I'll take this kind of low risk addition.
Clearly a stronger back up position for us recognizing the massive weakness at CB. It also sends me a signal that they did not expect much better than him being outright released. So right or wrong I am happy someone is taking proactive action. Not going to pass judgement on this guy since I'm not familiar with his body of work and for sure not based on inputs from Metha and Cimini. We can't deny the fact that for a change we are not sitting with our hands around our rear end doing nothing and expecting miracles to occur during the season.
He would be subject to waivers . This is a good deal. A likely late 6th for a former 5th that may have been a victim of scheme change. Almost H. Anderson type of deal.
they say the colts switched to a zone defense and that Hairson is better at man coverage, which is good for us.
the Colts are deep at Corner and Hairston got benched last year halfway through. He was in competition for the very last CB spot on the roster.
fair enough, he woulda been subject to waivers you are right. Don't we still have the 3rd spot in terms of priority though?
When I saw we traded for him, I looked him up. If anything, Poole is more impressive. Could Hairston become a different player here? Sure, but considering we aren't the Yankees who pull good players out of the ether, I'm don't think it will happen.
We do but why risk it. You pick a guy in the 6th you hope can play in the league. We just sent a 6th for a guy that has shown he can play in the league. This is much less of a gamble than actual executing the pick in the upcoming draft.
True, but you also have to factor in two additional years under contract and the small chance of hitting a home run that you get when you keep the pick.
In the 6th you’re happy with a single and since we have 2 of them it’s a little bit of house money we’re spending here. Well not really house money, it’s the left over from the disappointment that ended up being Lee but that’s not on this gm.
I'm not sure why having an extra sixth round pick should make us more risk-averse (which is what this is, since we know Hairston is good enough for the NFL but still a JAG).
Human nature is to play a little looser when you have more chips. But again, this is less of a risk than executing the pick on a guy with no nfl tape. People talk about JAGs like they are a bad thing. JAGs are the meat of nfl rosters. We would be in much better shape if we landed more JAGs in the past few drafts.
we aren't going to find a legit starting CB at this point. tru and roberts are the starters, poole is CB3. the issue is after him it's been trash so bringing in a few guys cheap who can be CB4, CB5, CB6 etc is helpful for depth and certain packages
Exactly. The starters aren't terrible, depth is the problem. Hopefully they stay healthy but you never know.. I like that they are trying to improve depth.
