Ravens cut Eric Weddle

[Pi = 3.1SHutYoMouth!]

Rivera loves him. Hurney loves getting budget veteran Safeties. Weddle will be a hall of famer one day. Would be great locker room guy as well. We need some great veterans to replace what we lost this year.

[t96]

1 minute ago, KillerKat said:

yes

It's not really as clear cut as FS vs. SS. In many systems they are somewhat interchangeable, and all safeties have responsibilities in both pass coverage and run support, to varying degrees. Weddle's skill set in coverage is declining due to his age, and he should probably be more of a box safety going forward.

[t96]

11 minutes ago, NcPsa10 said:

The free agent market for safeties is flooded with talent

Landon Collins

Earl Thomas

Lamarcus Joyner

Tyrann Mathieu

Adrian Amos

Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix

Eric Weddle

Clayton Geathers  

Glover Quin

Tre Boston

Kenny Vaccaro

George Iloka

Jimmie Ward

Adrian Phillips

Jumped the gun on signing Reid, especially if we see a lot of these guys get less than him which is very possible. Should've let him test the market and kept tabs on him and others and used all possible information before making a decision. Instead Hurney Hurney'd.

[LinvilleGorge]

12 minutes ago, NcPsa10 said:

The free agent market for safeties is flooded with talent

Landon Collins

Earl Thomas

Lamarcus Joyner

Tyrann Mathieu

Adrian Amos

Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix

Eric Weddle

Clayton Geathers  

Glover Quin

Tre Boston

Kenny Vaccaro

George Iloka

Jimmie Ward

Adrian Phillips

Exactly. We should have an excellent opportunity to add a FS (maybe as a stopgap and nothing more) in FA to pair with Reid.

I'm still of the opinion that we overpaid Reid, but we'll see. Maybe this year's S FA market will rebound.

[NcPsa10]

Hmmm -Hearing that the Ravens are making a strong push to sing Tyrann Mathieu now , 

[ncfan]

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Exactly. He's still a quality player. Maybe he's washed up now and the Ravens know it, but he's likely a better option at FS than anyone else we could reasonably land this off-season. FS should still be high on our draft needs in case the right situation presented itself.

He started his career under Ron Rivera as DC of the chargers.

With this Youth movement I dont see it.  But FS is still one of those big holes that needs to be filled.  And if we spend all of our top draft picks on DL and OL.  He may be a guy who can come in cheap and be a stop gap for a year or 2 when Gaulden is ready or we bring someone else in

[Trill OG]

4 minutes ago, Pi = 3.1SHutYoMouth! said:

Rivera loves him. Hurney loves getting budget veteran Safeties. Weddle will be a hall of famer one day. Would be great locker room guy as well. We need some great veterans to replace what we lost this year.

We just cut a old FS. Why on earth would we bring in another aging stop gap FS?

People making these threads for aging vets when we have made it clear we are trying to go younger. Weedle is not what we need at this time.

[ncfan]

Just now, NcPsa10 said:

Hmmm -Hearing that the Ravens are making a strong push to sing Tyrann Mathieu now , 

Havnt heard anything but id really expect them to go after Landon Collins HARD.

 

1. This news broke just several hours after the news of the Giants not tagging Collins

2. Ravens GM loves..............LOVES Bama prospects for some reason

[Rubi]

16 minutes ago, NcPsa10 said:

The free agent market for safeties is flooded with talent

Landon Collins

Earl Thomas

Lamarcus Joyner

Tyrann Mathieu

Adrian Amos

Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix

Eric Weddle

Clayton Geathers  

Glover Quin

Tre Boston

Kenny Vaccaro

George Iloka

Jimmie Ward

Adrian Phillips

Eric Reid still better than all on this list except Earl Thomas IMO

[ncfan]

1 minute ago, Trill OG said:

We just cut a old FS. Why on earth would we bring in another aging stop gap FS?

People making these threads for aging vets when we have made it clear we are trying to go younger. Weedle is not what we need at this time.

Because our old FS lost a step and was a liability.

Weddle still was producing playing at a solid level.

[Pi = 3.1SHutYoMouth!]

2 minutes ago, Trill OG said:

We just cut a old FS. Why on earth would we bring in another aging stop gap FS?

People making these threads for aging vets when we have made it clear we are trying to go younger. Weedle is not what we need at this time.

True. But Gaulden is not the answer. Weddle is still productive. Hurney is not going to draft a safety early. We could finally have a tandem of safeties that could be as formidable as Deon Grant / Mike Minter.

[LinvilleGorge]

6 minutes ago, ncfan said:

He started his career under Ron Rivera as DC of the chargers.

With this Youth movement I dont see it.  But FS is still one of those big holes that needs to be filled.  And if we spend all of our top draft picks on DL and OL.  He may be a guy who can come in cheap and be a stop gap for a year or 2 when Gaulden is ready or we bring someone else in

We may be on a youth movement, but it would fit our mold of addressing safety. I'd rather break that mold and try to get some continuity there but unless Gaulden improves leaps and bounds or we land a top safety in the draft, I could see Weddle being a solid stopgap for us.

[RenoCarolina]

32 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Just posted this

Interestingly, by posting this fact, on his identically timed thread, you bumped it ahead of yours and yours is now doomed to oblivion. 

 

[Trill OG]

4 minutes ago, Pi = 3.1SHutYoMouth! said:

True. But Gaulden is not the answer. Weddle is still productive. Hurney is not going to draft a safety early. We could finally have a tandem of safeties that could be as formidable as Deon Grant / Mike Minter.

Weedle is going to be 35 this year. No thanks, you don't get better with age.