You never now with Schwartz. I love that he is so dissimilar from Marinelli. He’s not going to stand for missed tackles and blown coverages. I do expect changes but your guesses (and I don’t think they’re half bad) are as good as mine.

As a big proponent on trading simms, I don’t think that’s an option right now due to injuries and talant issues.

Cunningham needs that extra LB to be able to put Peterson at DE.

maybe Dizon. He seems more suited for that position.

If I was the opposing offense, and I knew they moved a linebacker out of position into the secondary, I’d be testing coverage matchups against that guy all game long—and probably see positive results!

Thought that was good.

How about trade Sims to GB for Kampman straight up? Kampman is lost as an OLB in a 3-4, Sims would fit the bill. I know teams usually don’t trade within their own division
Getting a stud pass-rusher that must be accounted for may help the secondary coverage.

I don’t see any spectacular moves in the future.

……probably with good reason. Henry seems to help us more at CB than S. Moving Henry to S would give us 2 solid safeties and 2 questionable CB’s.

It’s strange….at the beginning if the year, we wondered if Henry was fast enough to play CB still, and pinned our hopes on fast cover guys like Philip Buchanon. That seems to be the template for this type of defense…..blitz LB’s, and have CB’s who have the speed to at least reasonably cover on an island. The reality of it has worked out differently. Not enough QB pressure, not enough blitzing (for whatever reason)…….so we’ve needed our CB’s to be smarter, like Henry. That might also be part (but not all) of the reason why Buchanon has not played well.

But Schwartz say all options are on the table. Hmmm. In order to move Henry to Safety and let him ball-hawk, we’ll need 2 reasonably aware CB’s. Aside from the Mike Wallace TD play vs. the Steelers, Will James has not played too badly so far. So we need one more CB…..preferably a vet with some smarts. We just picked up a 7-year vet, 30-year old DeMarcus Faggins. Another former Titan. He’s 5-10, 178. Not tall, not big. Fast? Smart? If he can match what Will James has done so far, that might be enough to allow Schwartz to move Henry to Safety. Maybe not this week, but Faggins might get some playing time at CB right away, so Schwartz and Cunningham can evaluate if he can start there.

I don’t think they signed him back, however. Never heard of a couple of the new guys they just signed to the practice squad. Not sure who was dropped to make room.

Is Ernie Sims going to change to Safety? (crazy out of the box speculation)

So I’ve seen a fair amount of people on the POD suggest that you guys should trade Sims and for the life of me I can’t figure out why! From the games I’ve personally watched Sims I’ve have always been wishing that we had took him over Hawk in the draft. The guy has great speed. He can hit…hard. He can cover. He really seems to me like he can do it all. With that being said, I haven’t watched him much this year. Has his play been below expectations this year? I know Levy has looked good (former Badger :). I loved the guy there and love him now), but to me Sims is a very good Lb, on the verge of becoming an elite one.

So I ask you, why does it seem so many people want to trade Ernie Sims?