Who are the keepers on defense?

[I am Hubby]

When its our time to pick in the 1st round we need to take the best available freak on defense. Any position will due in my opinion. Just upgrade it any where

This is exactly what is needed. An aggressive approach to defense. We need play makers. Players that can make a difference. Ball hawking, big hitting, run stopping, smash you in the mouth, turnover machine difference makers.

Believe it or not people, we are not capable of creating turnovers. We absolutely need some big assed hard nosed athletes that can cause turnovers. Be it a uber quick DE, or a ball hawking CB, or a safety with a nose for the ball. ATHLETES are what we need, and plenty of them.

The only keepers on OUR defense are CJ, Beason, Anderson, Gamble, and maybe Godfrey and Hardy. (Applewhite is close, Edwards may fit also.) Everyone else is depth.

Sorry to be so blunt. But my giddy says we need defensive help, and bad.

So let's do this, and GOOOOOOO CATS!!!!!!!!

Oh, and welcome to the board Rubi.

[nickzz]

studs: jon beason, james anderson, charles johnson, chris gamble

good players: greg hardy, charles godfrey

good enough: sherrod martin

(?): thomas davis (would-be stud)

thats 6-7/11 people on defense we'll be fine with. can anyone say superbowl?

just a note to everyone: not every team has 11 studs on defense. it's a matter of depth for us, not talent. look at the ravens, they have haloti ngata (absolute stud), ray lewis (best mlb of all time, beason is comparable), t-sizzle (james anderson/TD are comparable but we run a 4-3 and they run a 3-4) and ed reed (martin seems like more of a ballhawk but not nearly as good and godfrey is always looking for the big hit)

[Pantherball]

The first guy out of that group that successfully gets artificial ACL's , steel rotator cuffs, and tendons implanted.

[DawgzLife]

I agree with this. Do you think Butler could be a starter?

I do. He has been playing well & with practice reps & game experience, I think he can at a minum being a starting nickle. He does have potential for a quality starter on the outside too, but I will reserve my judgement on that until we see more of him.

[DawgzLife]

Heading into neext season the keepers on defense are:...Brandon Hogan...Those are the only keepers I can think of. Most of them are very solid back ups/special teamers which is very important. But need to solidify a lot of the starting positions on D.

Can somebody tell me why some many feel Hogan is 1 of our best CBs?!

I have the highest hope for the guy, but...he hasn't even been on the feild yet. Let's see him play before labeling him as our answer at CB. This is not only to you Kittenman, but I've seen it so much it's weird. I do not think he will be a dud, but just think we should see the guy play before we throw out so much praise on the guy.