Who else was cut?

 

Hopefully one of our amazing LBs.

Nate Jones the great one has returned. Soon to come will be the illustrious Renaldo Hill. The ghost of 2008 lives on.

 

Why do we keep recycling our old DB's looking for new results? This makes no sense to me.

 

A fan signing? He has 2 star of david tatoos , just saying ...

Also a Duck , MrC will be happy.

 

I was just thinking to myself that we needed another DE.

 

A tatooed Duck from the Ukraine at that ... ;)

 

And a cowboy castoff no less!

 

Jones was here in 2009 too. He was a better nickel back than Sapp was in 2010. I like this signing.

 

MrC be happy, McC likey Igor.

 

He can blitz if I recall correctly .

 

I guess he's a decent dime back (used to cover Wes Welker well).

 

I remember his draft year , buzz about him being a Russian jew , who was/is unbelievably strong as I recall.

 

You're happy? we're happy then !

 

Well, the spelling with the sky on the end rather than ski would make it more likely Czech or Slovak than Polish. Slovakia borders Ukraine, so why wouldn't you see similar names in both countries?

 

Absolutely. I sure hope we cut a WR to make room for another DE.

 

3-4 RDE or 3-4 LDE?

 

Ukrainian Jew, but what's the difference really? Russian or Ukrainian Jew would be mainly be Ashkenazi Jews.

 

Seriously think we should look at shifting the fronts on defense.

 

Winnipeg has lots of people of that ancestry here.

A lot of Ukranian's , but during his draft , I think the national American media found it a better blurb to say he was a Russian football player.

He's played well in the past , thought he was a good player for SD , haven't paid attention the last couple of years though.

 

He is a better all around player than Sapp. So it was a mystery to me why we made no attempt to resign him, then had to trade for Sapp in training camp. More reliable tackler. We are going to like that. Less likely to see him bounce of a dude like Aaron Hernandez the way Sapp did. That to me, that he didn't wrap up on that play was more pathetic than the 99 yd TD, because that was as much or more R. Jones fault

 

I'm not saying so much as in this week but more so around the bye week. Could this work:

LE- Langford, Olshanksy
NT- Soliai, McDaniel
UT- Starks, Odrick
JACK- Wake, Taylor
SOLB- Dansby
SILB (MLB)- Burnett
WLB- Mitchell

It's the old 4-3 hybrid alignment.

 

I think he was RDE in both places.

 

Mitchell has experience at 4-3 MLB. He did well there in NO when called upon, albeit played sparingly.

 

He is no pass rusher to speak of. More traditional as you describe would suit him best.

 

The LBs could be messed around with switching up what you want them to do. Olshansky is more of a NT at DE which is perfect behind Langford.

 

well, Mike Krzyzewski is of Polish descent. Brandon and Dave Dombrowski are most likely too. I guess neither you or I have spent a lot of time in Ukraine but if we did, I don't think we'd find Olshansky to be an unusual name.

 

Hey, Hill was a smart solid FS for us in 2008. It was a big mistake to let him walk and then throw huge money at Gibril Wilson, who ain't half the player from a cerebral standpoint.

 

I think one of the problems we're seeing on defense is that the left side of the DL is getting washed out. Starks is not a great two-gap DE. Burnett is not someone that should be asked to do what Channing Crowder did last season. These guys are effective when they're in their correct positions.