Starting Free Safety already on the roster

Oh no were, DOOOOOMED!! <—Sarcasm

Seriously though, I think the Starting job will come down to Whitehead or Prosinski. From the reviews it sounds like Estrada has been making plays but its hard to say a UDFA would win that job outright. As far as Carey goes, I’m not counting on him to make it thru training camp.

Did everyone just go dumb? All along the Front office has been viewing Landry as our FS…

Most camp reports say either Chris Prosinski or Matt Estrada is always near the ball or making plays. I don’t know if they are getting more reps than Don Carey and Terrel Whitehead or just making more plays. Don and Terrel have the lockout on their side. If the rookies learn the defense fast, they will shoot past at least Don Carey who MJD said corners don’t like to hit(speaking about Don Carey during a interview on nfl.com) . You cant be bad in coverage and tackling. At least Chris and Matt will come up and hit.

Gene has said he wants Landry at SS and having Greene as his backup makes SS a position of somewhat strength which sounds weird to say. Anyways, after watching highlights of Estrada, I really liked him. He reminded me a lot of Prosinski. In the end though, I see Prosinski winning the job. He has decent coverage, but the thing that i think will get him the job is his playmaking ability. The guy is a straight up athlete who has a crazy vert and broad jump. He is also a fairly hard hitter so he can make plays in the air. I also think some people don’t know or just forgot that the guy apparently had a chance to go to Harvard, but chose to play football at Wyoming. He is very intelligent obviously and has a ridiculous desire to play the game(I mean hell, the guy passed up Harvard). I think he will have growing pains since he is obviously a rookie, but his athletic ability and smarts give him a better chance than Carey had last year. Another thing is that whoever starts will automatically look better since we have better LBs and a NFL caliber S next to him. Our pass rush will continue to improve and our run defense will be better forcing teams into obvious passing downs. There will be a better pass rush with Coleman and Landry in the game as well on passing downs which will have a big impact on some 3rd downs. Also, Mel Tucker is calling plays instead of Del Rio. I dont really know what effect this will have, but I would imagine he would be better since his entire focus will be on play calling. My whole point is that whoever starts will be in a great position to succeed when being compared to our FSs last year.

will help tremendously. Sort of like what Sammy Knight did for Nelson.

you both guys are essentially the same type of player. The hard-hitting come up in the box type safety. Neither really excels in coverage albeit Landry is much more refined than Greene. We need a rangier play-making type safety to be paired with Landry.

I have to admit, when I first heard that comment by Gene, I instantly figured “Mathis” was the guy he had in mind. I had figured the Jags were either planning to add a really good CB via FA, such as a Jonathan Joseph, or via trade; Asante Samuel, and then Mathis would be moved to the FS spot, while the new CB + Cox would be the CB tandem.

Now that Joseph is in Houston & Samuel seems an unlikely target for the Jags, I guess they seem to think Prosinski can do it.

I know Landry has played the FS position before as well.