Profile: Gerald Sensabaugh - New Safety Makes Sense

and i think we can safely pencil him in as a starter, whatever that means…

I only expect Tnew, The Hammer and Scandrick (the starter) to be the secondary members on the field every play

I wasn’t really excited about the guy until I realized how long we have gone without adequate.

Isn’t 204 a bit light for an SS? Or are we gunna slide Hamlin over and let the kid play Free?

I haven’t seen Sensabaugh play much. Can someone give me some insight in to his ability to cover?

I’d like to see how he fits with Hamlin. I’m guessing he’ll need to be good at coverage, at least better than RW. I’m not opposed to picking up a under the radar guy to fill a need, I hope he works out.

Give any early 20 something guy a lot of money and NFL lifestyle and you’re lucky if it’s only speeding tickets. He’s guilty of bad judgement and basically acting his age.

I respect Fighters on-field assesment so I think he will be a major upgrade over anything Dallas has had for a long time, a great signing.

For a friggin’ haircut?

Driving around without a license?!?
Are you guys crazy?
“Nah, no character problem. After all, they were legal.” (The 2nd time anyways.)

I guess once they’re Cowboys most of you throw out common sense.

I lost respect for the guy based on this post, although of course I hope he plays well. But many of you are really whitewashing his past.
Not to mention he’s a suspension waiting to happen.

Will you really be surprised if he gets suspended week 8 and our D is thrown for a loss?

Let the Bengals sign guys like this.

I can pretty much guarantee management talked to him about his off-field issues. It just wouldn’t make any sense to cut all the off-field trouble-makers, then sign yet another potential disaster. Sensabaugh had to give some assurances that his troubles are behind him, or he wouldn’t have been signed. If the kid has any brains he’ll realize in today’s NFL second chances are limited compared to what they used to be.

on and off the field, it is hard to tell with him.

on the field, seems he’ll probably be at least decent, and could really excel when playing with a talented secondary and a mean pass rush. we’ve got some good potential talent at S in this draft class, but it is essential to have a veteran lined up to start while we see how the rookies develop, and he could turn out to be an important long-term component of this defense.

off the field, i think you’re assessment is probably pretty accurate. his violations are pretty minor and seem more like an aversion to paperwork than any criminal intent.

Sean Taylor, Darrent Williams and Richard Collier. These guys have all been used for target practice. I’m not saying had they been armed it would’ve turned out any different, and I’m not saying they didn’t put themselves in a bad situation in at least Colliers’ case. But it’s easy to see why an NFL player would consider keeping a firearm close by. And Collier was on the same team as Sensabaugh.

If he plays lights out and keeps his nose clean, then we try to sign him long term.

If he stinks, breaks the law again or wants too much money, we always have Hamlin. He’s a high character kid who should be just as good as Sensabaugh any way.

I see both sides of the argument, on the one hand everybody is dancing and singing Kum ba yah when the Cowboys decides to clean house. Jerry is praised for getting rid of all the locker room cancers that was causing grown men to be distracted from performing on the field be cause teammate A was in the news for some legal situation or Teammate B just called out Teammate C. So we had a mad exodus of players and now all of a sudden while the guards were sleeping, Some body sneaks in this kid who has a rap sheet, all though not as criminally offensive as Pacman’s, but almost just as long an just about everybody is fine with it… What the heck?? How did that happen?? where was Mothers of America when we were signing him… why was nobody looking into his past and digging up his dirt to so we could be up in arms about him joining the team?

I tend not to agree with Realist much (Dr says its bad for my mental health) however it seems like we as Fans tend to overlook issues when it comes to players on our own teams. An in this case this should have been a BIG red flag going up when this guys past was brought into the light. ESPECIALLY with all that has gone on in the off season that was supposed to "" Clean Up The Locker Room "" that everybody was so in favor of.

Now in saying all that here is my real feelings about the whole issue. I don’t have a problem with the signing I think he is a good player that could really help out our secondary. I like all that he brings to the field and I hope that if he can accomplish the same or even a higher level of play with us it will be a TREMENDOUS upgrade to what we had before.

As for his off field issues the speeding ticket thing is clear sign of immaturity on his part… but its not uncommon. Driving around with guns in his car is another sign, not because he has guns but because of the car he is driving around in. It appears that his logic might be I got this car that cost more then the barber shop , and the corner store next to it combined. If I want to roll around in the old hood with it I just might want to carry some protection just in case somebody tries anything. WRONG!

How about buying your 2nd/ 3rd car as your hood car that you can roll around in that is not as flash, still new still looks nice but if someone tries to take it, you don’t have to worry about getting into a gun fight to protect it. Save the Bentley for when your in the big city and your going to a high profile event.

But he is still a kid and when you give kids money sometimes all the want to do is let everybody else know how much they got and if you don’t have people in your corner telling you… " HEY DUMB@#$!! why in the world are you driving a Bentley in the hood?" then you really don’t see anything wrong with it. That may seem like common sense to many of us but when you come from nothing, and you finally have something… lack of true guidance is the down fall of many young Professional Athletes.