Safety Anthony Smith Signed

[Lurker64]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Jesus Christ... No offense, but do you actually read and critically analyze things, or do you just have an agenda?

You have two safety positiions: Free Safety and Strong Safety. We've done very well at FS where Collins has started to become a great player. However, we have a question mark at Strong Safety, as Rouse can't play it (he's a FS, and hence Colllins's backup), while Bigby is coming off an injury and is somewhat unreliable, and Peprah is just no good. So because Rouse, a TT draft pick, is relegated to backing up another TT draft pick, that's some sort of colossal failure? No.

Smith was brought in to compete with Bigby for the starting Strong Safety job. He was also brought in because an important role of the safety in many schemes is to call the defense, while we have no safeties who have actually played in this defense before, while Smith has.

Rouse isn't a failure, he's just a guy who can only play one position and he's backing up a guy who, last time I checked, just made the pro bowl at that position. There's nothing weird or wrong about having a late 3rd round draft pick backing up an all pro (who you also, coincidentally, drafted.) If anything this signing is because ANOTHER Ted Thompson Free Agent Pickup was WASTED... oh wait, Bigby has already made enough plays to justify what they gave up to get him... i.e. nothing. But realistically, it's more because last year we had three safeties get hurt, and the guy who was fourth in line really wasn't any good.

[KYPack]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Ok, let the excuses begin!

Rouse.....really? If anything, I figured Peprah would be gone. Where'd you hear Rouse?

TT will undoubtedly draft a S in the second round, and cut Rouse; and a WR in the 2nd round, and cut Jones; and an OT/G in the 2nd round and cut Spitz...

The plan is coming together beautifully

OK Wist. I'll second guess the hell out of ya if this don't happen!

I like all 3 guys.
Spitz had one suck year last season, but I think he'll come around. Rouse is a slow bugger and he peeks WAY too much, but he's got a lot of ball sense. Experience will help him as will his new DB coach. Darren Perry is one of the best secondary coaches in the league. He'll teach Rouse how to read his keys and keep his peepers out of the backfield.

The guy you might be right about is Jones. He just may have a chronic knee.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Smith is a whole lot better than Peprah, and a fiery player. We definitely improved with this move.

Definitely?

He sounds like kind of a knucklehead.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/441975

I noticed he got a 100K signing bonus. That isn't money for a guy who has starter potential. Maybe he is better than the other backups, but I'll wait and see.

[bobblehead]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Ok, let the excuses begin!

I feel obligated to make this ugly excuse. Not every guy drafted works out. There I said it, you got me. Oh, btw, where did you hear this, cuz on draft day all packer fans were celebrating the rouse pick as I recall (he had a fast 40 time for a 6'4" guy and according to rats that makes a guy a stud.)

If I recall correctly a lot of people were disgusted with the slow James Jones but were very high on the speedy David Clowney as well.

What can I say, I think Jones will have a very good year this season, the problem will be that we got 4 good WR and one that could be the 3 on some teams.

[esoxx]

Rouse is junk.

[wist43]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Ok, let the excuses begin!

Rouse.....really? If anything, I figured Peprah would be gone. Where'd you hear Rouse?

TT will undoubtedly draft a S in the second round, and cut Rouse; and a WR in the 2nd round, and cut Jones; and an OT/G in the 2nd round and cut Spitz...

The plan is coming together beautifully

OK Wist. I'll second guess the hell out of ya if this don't happen!

I like all 3 guys.
Spitz had one suck year last season, but I think he'll come around. Rouse is a slow bugger and he peeks WAY too much, but he's got a lot of ball sense. Experience will help him as will his new DB coach. Darren Perry is one of the best secondary coaches in the league. He'll teach Rouse how to read his keys and keep his peepers out of the backfield.

The guy you might be right about is Jones. He just may have a chronic knee.

Fella's, it's called sarcasm

[texaspackerbacker]

As somebody said, the standard for comparison here is Peprah, and Smith seems to be a significant improvement. I think getting Perry as a coach both helped sign him and has something to do with why wanted him.

Olshansky signed with Dallas? Good. He wouldn't have been a bargain anyway.

[Joemailman]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Ok, let the excuses begin!

Okay, I think I got it. If TT doesn't sign someone, it's proof that he is cheap, or asleep, or a turtle etc. If he does sign someone, it's proof that he wasted a draft pick. There are no limits to the wisdom available here.

[KYPack]

Re: SAFTEY

Fella's, it's called sarcasm

It's hard to tell with you, Brah.

[Joemailman]

This is the boob who shot his mouth off about Brady & company before they played them in '07. He then got torched on multiple big plays.

Yep.

He’s best known for guaranteeing a Steelers win against the then-unbeaten Patriots in Week 14 of that season, however, and playing poorly in a 34-13 Patriots victory.

We'll see what he learned from that fiasco. It was a real un-Steeler thing to do. Bet Tomlin got in his ass after that one.

Darren Perry was his position coach when Smith was a rookie in 2006. I suspect Perry may have had something to do with TT being willing to go after Smith despite a bad 2008. He was good enough to start 4 games as a rookie, and had pretty good numbers. The wheels kind of came off last year, but sometimes a change of scenery can be good for a guy.

[The Shadow]

Re: SAFTEY

This guy was signed because ANOTHER Ted Thompson draft pick was WASTED. It look's like the Rouse "experiment" at saftey is now over. Not surprising as most scouts believed the only way Rouse would be of value is to be converted to LB, but once again, Teddy thought he knew better.

Ok, let the excuses begin!

Maybe time to give the whining a rest?

[SnakeLH2006]

Wow after reading the JS article...Snake is floored we beat KC to the punch as the last NFL team to sign a FA. Let's just hope this guy is not as stupid as Javon Walker. What happened to that Wonderlic phenom?

Either way...Hennesey on Snake for TT's FA bonanza party. I got the Limo rented out with Drew Berrymore for Fritz.

Joe Arrigo has it a good source over on PackerChatters it's 100% confirmed there will be SEVERAL (his quote, not Snake's) drunken celebratory parade floats going on in GB tomorrow for this amazing Reggie White type move. Also, on rapport with Bedard, former Packer great Cletidius Hunt will be at the float signing autographs for the celebration.

We going BIG TIME baby! Let the party start...TT's making BIG MOVES with that gangsta lean yo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gspA_hVis

BTW...Kool Keith is the man (1:20-2:03)..seen that cat in concert many times over the past 10 years...Just amazing...best MC EVER..just saying...Snake is serious here and loves his raps old school. Keith is the man.

Thanks, Snake! Does Drew know any of this yet?

Chloroform should take care of that tiny deatil.

CPK was close, though, as Sebastian Janikowski is on a flight for Sunday morning in GB with some GHB to "seal the deal" for Fritz and Drew.