Sunday Poll: Starting at Free Safety for Your 2010 Dallas Cowboys...

Of course you always want to try and improve your team, but when your defense is pitching shut-outs, I’m not sure it’s where you want to go with your top draft pick. Playmaking safety sounds wonderful … of course everyone wants to see more production. But I really don’t consider Hamlin a weak link. And we may even have the prospects on the roster in Ball and little Hamlin :)

Now on the other hand, this offensive line not only needs help, but it needs to develop new prospects all the way across the line… that’s not an overnight job. I’m still hoping for 2 of the top three being O-Line.

By the midpoint, maybe a draft pick has supplanted him, we’ll see. But I can’t see Ken getting replaced by Week 1, unless a veteran is added to the roster (like Otogwe).

we could move hamlin to SS, which is his natural position, if sensi leave the boys and then we coul look for a better FS on draft or free agency, he’s not a playmaker but is a field general, something i think everybody loves into the field

And there are so many people on this site who know much more about prospects and free agents and potential draftees than I do. It’s just that I didn’t notice anything even before the broken wrist.

You could tell Darren Woodson was something special from the get go, even if he didn’t start right away. I would love for somebody to be “the 2nd coming of D-Wood”.

would be all about restructuring the O line. I thought it was the offense’s turn after years of using high draft picks on the D. I’m even more perplexed by the folks who keep insisting that the O line only had one bad game. I’m pretty sure those 34 sacks Romo suffered, the highest of his career, didn’t all come in the Vikes game.

But it is the most glaring position that can be improved upon on defense.

Ken Hamlin is an adequate player, but if the Cowboys can upgrade his position with someone who can get more takeaways then the defense could noticeably improve. Not that they aren’t good already, but a playmaker at FS would put them over the top. IMO, and a lot of other people’s opinion too.

but only at the right price. Considering his age and the degree of upgrade over Hamlin (don’t forget Hamlin may not have got many TOs but he was a pretty good cover safety) you don’t want to sell the farm. I actually think this would not be a bad year to give up some of those draft picks – we had a bumper crop of picks last year (albeit few healthy ones) and we have a talented team that few draft picks are going to displace. Now I agree about keeping the first rounder this year, but I would hold on to those 2011 picks at all cost.

It fixed itself once I signed in.

Where it is expected that the player can generate a few turnovers. Hamlin doesn’t suck, but it would be nice to add that dimension to our defense.

I don’t trust him like I do Sensabaugh to be able to cover a WR or a TE one on one. I think the majority of the reason he didn’t give up many deep balls this year was because we game planned against that effectively and put Hamlin in a position to simply double cover team’s deep threats such as Desean Jackson. Plus, Hamlin’s metrics have dropped a good bit from his 2007 year. I think he is a serviceable safety, but I do believe that if this defense wants to get elite, that we have to have a much better ballhawk safety.

Dallas hasn’t signed Atogwe.

Please explain why Hamlin is a POS.

I think his salary is $5.6 million this year with half of that guaranteed. Apparently "much of the money left on his 6 year $39 million contract is not guaranteed" (DMN). It’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Big difference. I’ll bet many who voted saying Hamlin would still be the starter are not that pleased about it, judging by some of the threads lately.

Jerry’s not going to eat every bad contract he gave out in the last few years. Looks as if many hope that by keeping RW, Jerry is free to cut Ken Hamlin.

Man he’s a grown man.

I think he’s a pretty good player, and our D plays well with him, so we aren’t hamstrung if we don’t improve his play. And I doubt an elite safety will fall to Dallas in the 1st, though maybe a good one will in the 2nd.

Safety is the defensive position that could most easily be improved on by choosing a player like Nate Allen, or Morgan Burnett or Earl Thomas, etc. Ken Hamlin hasn’t contributed much (zero INT & zero FF in 2 seasons) to the pass defense, and his best asset was intimidation by jacking WR’s across the middle. Those hits have been few and far between and are illegal now, with the rule changes of the last few years.
If Dallas has the chance to grab a playmaking safety with better coverage skills early in the draft they should be all over it. Not just for this season, but for the future.