View topic - Townsend to safety

[thesteelhammer Profile]

CBSSports.com reports the Pittsburgh Steelers could move CB Deshea Townsend to safety this season.

[mckeesrockstheburg Profile]

Team guy. he'll do just fine.

[thesteelhammer Profile]

Team guy. he'll do just fine.

I think so too.
Might extend his career some also.

[steelwest Profile]

I am not sure how this truly helps. He is not a hitter like Clark so he cannot paly that position. We have Troy as our other safety. If we are simply looking at depth behind Troy I guess it makes sense, but how does that beat being the third corner?

[Witchblade Profile]

He gives the ball back to the offense. His ability to play both positions allows us to keep more corners and he can cover the back up role at safety should we need one. The rooks we have at CB are too good to take a chance on them clearing waivers.

Lewis, Burnett, & Ratliff all make this team.

[PSUPERCY Profile]

To me it sounds like the writing is on the wall for Tyrone Carter.

[finesward Profile]

buh bye

[Crucible-steel-kid Profile]

HEY, GUESS WHAT? I learned how to turn off the caps lock... This reminds me of when our recent H.O.F.'r Rod
Woodson said that he didn't wanna play safety, even though he got a lucrative contract. Maybe Townsend learned from his mistakes?

[mckeesrockstheburg Profile]

He's too smart, too experienced to not have around. Carter is history as rookies seem like a good group as mentioned. DeShea's returned picks for 6 a few times over last few years as nickel or even 3rd safety. That's experience. Like having another coach only he's on the field.

[Witchblade Profile]

Carter's not going any where.

[lloydgreene Profile]

I really like the fact that we are discussing this.... seems like good problems to have in the secondary. I would like to see who we have to back up our linebackers and our O-line get some consistency.

I know I am an old school fuddy duddy, but there is something just so SEXY about handing the ball off to our running back and getting 4 or 5 yards when the defense knows its coming. We could not do that at all last year, it seems.