Friday Free Agency Thread #4--Are Things Winding Down? Are We Going to Sign Dawkins?

Although he has a solid career, I feel he has never lived up to his potential. For what he is though, and to this Broncos team he just needs to produce like he did in NE.

D Jack is gone right?

Most are reporting that Dawkins is signed

http://blogs.nbcsports.com/home/archives/2009/02/dawkins-finally-a-done-deal-in.html

Some the the FA seem injury prone. We had that on offense (RB) and defense (Boss B.). Do you think the injury prone guys will hold up? Hopefully there isn’t too much roster space taken up by guys who only play 3-4 games per season.

Gnarly brought it up in the other thread, should the Broncos take a chance on Olshansky? he had an off year this last year, but before that was a solid 3-4 DE. Something the Broncos desperately need.

He seems very streaky, so maybe an incentive laden contract will keep his motor going. thoughts?

I have not heard any reports of any team, including the Broncos, looking at Olshansky yet.

with all the crazy fuss going on.

I’m hoping for the line-work/backer work MHR posts have been ironing out over the recent weeks. Although, if McD and the Broncos are taking care of the type of needs they have been THUS far in the free agency period, I’d say it’s probably to solidify some of the less glaring problems (I say “less-glaring” because there are some issues, but a lot of these deals have been more o-focused, while the safeties are surely important on the Denver team, but switching to the 3-4 may also require some new faces up in the front seven) before putting a pretty darn fair amount of stock in who they get in the draft.

and Denver wasn’t included among about six teams. That sounds like Denver is passing on him. It looks like starting NT and DE and ILB are all still right at the top of our draft list, just like they were a few days ago. That means we needs to score starters in the first three rounds…. as far as I can see, and maybe score a late round star…

are throwing offers at Kurt Warner, and that they look like good offers…..

Niners in the SB next year? :)

just had a soundbite from buckhalter

“i just wanna do everything i can for the denver fans”

i’m paraphrasing here, but booyah!

I posted this in the fanblast on Lonnie Paxton, but since many of us were much perturbed by the signing of a new LS, I thought it was worth mentioning here as well. Check out this rather cool little anecdote from Schef about our new LS:

An eight-year veteran in New England, Paxton will best be remembered for the snow angels he made after Adam Vinatieri kicked a 23-yard field goal that beat the Raiders and propelled them into the 2001 AFC Championship Game.

Guy makes snow angels after eliminating the Raiders?? Where has he BEEN all our lives!!! ; )

SWG made an interesting point in that Lonnie is actually a C where Mike Leach is a TE who plays LS. Made me wonder if maybe McD’s issue with Leach was not so much his snapping as his blocking? Jason Elam being a pro could have anticipated issues like that and overcome them, but not sure a guy like Prater could have. Anyone see recent tape on Leach?

Yeah, he is wearing John Lynch’s number, I hope that is not sacrilegious.

Nuggets DOMINATE Lakers 90-79. Boooyaaaaah!!!!!

I know it seems like we might sign ilb davis, and some project d will to play inside as well, however i feel like with the upgrade of dawkins makes the signing of lewis even more valuable. if dj plays his natural weak side, and davis takes on ilb we could still use lewis. It seems like with lewis and dawkins we would have a very tough and nasty defense, with the caveat being the eventual d linemen signings/drafts. we could possibly have one of the strongest linebacking crews in the league with b. baily/doom or moss, davis, lewis, and dj on the weak side. obviously this leaves woodyard though i see him as a future free safety under the tutelage of dawkins. however if macxanders are planning on signing rey m, then obviously we probably wont go after lewis, however the idea of dawkins, champ, lewis and dj all on the same defense is very interesting. As of right now we only need to have a mediocre defense to make it into the playoffs, but with lewis, dawkins and an average nt we could very well be a superbowl contender. At the end of the day lewis wants to be on a team that has a shot, and right now i feel we have just a good of a shot if not better than the jets or the cowboys.

assuming we’re about halfway through, how do you grade for Team McX’s FA acumen thus far?

Personally, I’m feeling good about pretty much all of them. B+ and confident in our new leaders.

while i agree that he is a better linebacker than the 4 you mentioned, if we were to pick up a stud middle linebacker like lewis or rey m, woodyard would be competing with dj for the will linebacker spot and for my money im taking dj in that battle. however if we dont sign lewis or malouluga then i would agree that he should be our starting weak side linebacker, yet i would still love him to become a nasty free safety in the mold of john lynch and brian dawkins to complement our run defense.

Brian Patrick Dawkins (born October 13, 1973 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American football safety for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.

… it must be so.

haha yea i saw that, hopefully its not dawkins’ agent updating to get a better deal, for the love of god let me be wrong

  So far he is using the broncos as leverage the broncos are being played

If David Anderson is signed, just how much would he be a part of the offense with Marshall, Royal and Stokley in the fold? I’d love Anderson to go Wes Welker on the NFL….as a Rammie myself, I saw Anderson seriously take over games

That some kind of deal was reached with B Dawkins But no one knows the specifics
 it will all probably be announced tommrow
                                  you can all sleep good now Its really true

Now there stands there is a good chance that they might feel comfortable mabey
 trading to get our 12th pick like some of you guys were saying earlier this week.

He is 6’ 330 and could be possible DT depth.

As for DT itself, do we even have one? We should probably get on that.

I would like to get that guy we were talking about with the fifth round tender on him. Yeah. I think he’s from Baltimore or something. I can’t for the life of me remember his name, though.

 Buckhalter will do now that he is in the famous denver running system
  He never really panned out here so they are anxious to see what happens for him next
 year

i’ve read he isn’t really a good fit with the zone-blocking system. as far as dt/nt is concerned, what gives? THE most important position for us in the 3-4 or 4-3, and we again don’t have a single player worth a damn at the position, sans perhaps thomas as a 4-3 dt. big trouble, folks

we are going to need about 5-6 more d-linemen next season to hold the fort, or we have zero chance at success against our schedule. i would trade all of these signings for 2 starters on the d-line. a bunch of rookies aren’t going to cut it, if we even draft a bunch. am i missing something here?

dawkins is awesome. whadda ya know, an in-the-box safety/blitzer/tackler is a need, now. lynch-haters, eat crow.

http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_11804556

For those that didn’t get it (all of you I’m sure) link

But seriously you are getting a great special teams player who can contribute on defense (played both DT spots and LE for Indy) and fill in at fullback if needed.

Here is the hit Reid is famous for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJmsCsb9hUA

  Are really taking this dawkins and buckhalter loss really really hard
  some are questioneing there fanhood / loyality now over this !

reid doesn’t look big enough for even the 4-3. fb depth and a st player are worthy needs, though, but dt looks like a stretch. not what i was looking for, exactly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srUo2MDngJE&feature=related

 Manny sports writers after the season was over had doubt wether or not the defense
 would be any good this season ?
  Now with these signings and a draft still to come they have to take these upgrades
  more seriously now

hey guys, new here but been reading the comments all day! damn, we need dawkins to toughen up our secondary. just waiten for schefter to report it. just sign him already!(assuming they havent already)

If Vic Lombardi of CBS4 is a reliable source…

Free agent CB Andre Goodman has visits scheduled with the Broncos Saturday and the Browns on Sunday.
Former Belichick assistants doing battle over the same player. Goodman, who will turn 31 last year, is coming off his best year as a starter. He won’t come at the same price as the younger corners like Dominique Foxworth that have already signed.

Just heard from Schefter on NFL network that Detroit and Tampa both contacted Denver in hopes of working out a deal, trading Cassel for Cutler. Schefter said that Denver claimed that they didn’t make the calls, the other teams did.
Is Cutler being considered for a trade? Or would Mcdaniels really have gone that far to recreate his little home away from home Patriots team here in Denver? If that’s the case I would be extremely pissed.