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And the injuries continue! Jackson Suspended and now Meriweather out with a sprain.... whoa... this is going to be a shoooot ooouuuutt!

http://t.co/7TFiCAB5

Link?

Not sure how to link it but this is Grant Paulsen's tweet from 11m ago:

Mike Shanahan: Brandon Meriweather suffered a MCL/PCL sprain in Monday's practice. He's out 2 to 4 weeks.

I'm seeing it on Grant Paulsen's twitter feed. Looks like info from Shanny's talk with reporters.

Nuts.

Deadskins wrote:Link?

From Shanahan's press conference... Tweeted by Rich Campbell... no link yet... Meriweather had a brace ... Shanny told press core it was a sprain. Will Post a link when available.

Sob, back to where we were last year.. both starting safeties out.
It's not the end of the world.. we made do with the same dbs last year minus Barnes + Crawford

I'm sure Brees is licking his chops about now. Better crank that pass rush up! Gomes or Doughty?? My guess is Doughty.

the coaches trust Reed b/c he seems to be in the right place. while he's not the most athletic guy on the team, he makes plays.

Reed Doughty on Jimmy Graham. Dear Jesus help

What about Crawford?? Might not be the worst idea.. or moving Hall to the back field and bringing in Crawford at cb..

106.7 said Hall would end up on Jimmy Graham a lot. Of course that means more of Cedric Griffin. Yeah!

Not like this season was gonna be easy as it was, but damn...

gregory smith wrote:I'm sure Brees is licking his chops about now. Better crank that pass rush up! Gomes or Doughty?? My guess is Doughty.

My guess is Gomes mostly, with a dash of Hall at safety, and a sprinkling of Doughty.

Who else is on the roster @ safety?

Is M. Williams healthy or are we going to see Homes and Daughty?

cowboykillerzRED wrote:Who else is on the roster @ safety?

Jordan Bernstein and Medeau Williams.

My response to this is really only appropriate in smack.

Doughty troubles me because of the offense we're playing. His coverage skills are his biggest liability. Well, that and not being athletic enough to make up for his lack of coverage skills. Rumor is that Drew Brees is really good at throwing to receivers.

Well, our front 7 better step up BIG time.

skinsfan#33 wrote:

cowboykillerzRED wrote:Who else is on the roster @ safety?

Jordan Bernstein and Medeau Williams.

Well I think we will see one or both of them.. Bernstein played aight in preseason didn't he? For some reason I think of Medeau as pretty decent as well... Am I off?

If we are hoping for backup safties to save the day we may be dissapointed? Of course I hope they do well but I dont want to see them in one on one situations.
Personally I would have a good dose of nickel packages for this game. This would mean Rak and Kerrigan lining up as DEs. I would have Fletch and Chris wilson as the two middle Lbs. Chris Wilson would be chipping Graham and blitzing most of the time to utilize his rushing skills. Fletcher would mostly be in coverage and blitz the middle from time to time.

So that would be a strategy of using 5 guys rushing the QB most of the time with six in coverage. So Rak and Kerrigan lining up as DEs Cofield, Carriker, Bowen and Jenkins rotating at DT for just this game. With Chris Wilson rushing the QB as the second ILB even though he is an OLB. Thats ok though. Even against the Run I think our front can hold up well in a nickel package for most of the game.

emoses14 wrote:My response to this is really only appropriate in smack.

Doughty troubles me because of the offense we're playing. His coverage skills are his biggest liability. Well, that and not being athletic enough to make up for his lack of coverage skills. Rumor is that Drew Brees is really good at throwing to receivers.

Doughty is a strong safety. His responsibilities are mainly run support. I'm not that concerned about him. Free safety on the other hand...

HEROHAMO wrote:If we are hoping for backup safties to save the day we may be dissapointed? Of course I hope they do well but I dont want to see them in one on one situations.
Personally I would have a good dose of nickel packages for this game. This would mean Rak and Kerrigan lining up as DEs. I would have Fletch and Chris wilson as the two middle Lbs. Chris Wilson would be chipping Graham and blitzing most of the time to utilize his rushing skills. Fletcher would mostly be in coverage and blitz the middle from time to time.

So that would be a strategy of using 5 guys rushing the QB most of the time with six in coverage. So Rak and Kerrigan lining up as DEs Cofield, Carriker, Bowen and Jenkins rotating at DT for just this game. With Chris Wilson rushing the QB as the second ILB even though he is an OLB. Thats ok though. Even against the Run I think our front can hold up well in a nickel package for most of the game.

Perry Riley will be the other ILB on most snaps.

well all I've heard here all summer long is about the improved depth ("hey, we're cutting people that can make other teams now....woohoo")

so, now we'll get a chance to see how true that is....or, was it just the the 2012 summer edition of unearned talk that's so popular in D.C.

the fun begins soon.

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Losing both starting safeties in a week w/o even playing a game really sucks. The third safety is gimpy.

The fact that we still have credible safeties left IS a testament to our depth.