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<blockquote data-quote="texaspackerbacker" data-source="post: 491103" data-attributes="member: 25"><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"Of course the performance based value number is subjective and no stat or method of evaluating stats is perfect but there’s a reason Joe Whitt said the following</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">:</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 60px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> There will be no guarantees at cornerback for the Packers in 2013. On Tuesday, cornerbacks coach <strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Joe Whitt Jr.</span></strong>made that much clear. When players report back to Green Bay, four cornerbacks may engage in an open competition. Whitt praised the improvement of third-year corner <strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Sam Shields </span></strong>and indicated that Shields, <strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Tramon Williams</span></strong><strong>, </strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Casey Hayward </span></strong>and <strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Davon House</span></strong> will all have an opportunity to start next season. “It’s going to be interesting to see who are going to be the guys who run out there on Day One,” Whitt said, “because right now I couldn’t tell you who’s going to do what because the way that Sam and Casey have played. And with Tramon and House there, there’s four guys that are vying for two spots. Maybe three with nickel. It will be interesting to see who gets it.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/187050591.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/187050591.html</span></u></a></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">If Tramon had played this season as he did during the 2010 season Whitt wouldn’t be saying there’ll be an open competition for the all three CB spots. I’m glad it’s happening and if Williams goes down a peg or two that’ll be good news for us because I still expect him to be good. In fact I hope his shoulder is even better this coming season than it was this year and he’ll be able to be more physical at the LOS and tackle better. Speaking of tackling, check the link for what Whitt says about Sam Shields. HardRightEdge may be right, he may require a first round tender."</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px">I guess I'm just in an agreeable mood tonight. Yeah, it's perfectly fine to have open competition at CB. However, I think that says more about the quality of Shields, House, and Hayward than about Williams fading. I stand by what I said that he had the toughest assignments of the four. We are fortunate to have all of them - as somebody once said, you can never have too many good CBs. That's especially true for the Packers with their shaky front seven (other than Matthews) and questionable Safety situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texaspackerbacker, post: 491103, member: 25"] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=2][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]"Of course the performance based value number is subjective and no stat or method of evaluating stats is perfect but there’s a reason Joe Whitt said the following[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]:[/FONT][/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=3][FONT=Georgia] There will be no guarantees at cornerback for the Packers in 2013. On Tuesday, cornerbacks coach [B][FONT=Georgia]Joe Whitt Jr.[/FONT][/B]made that much clear. When players report back to Green Bay, four cornerbacks may engage in an open competition. Whitt praised the improvement of third-year corner [B][FONT=Georgia]Sam Shields [/FONT][/B]and indicated that Shields, [B][FONT=Georgia]Tramon Williams[/FONT][/B][B], [/B][B][FONT=Georgia]Casey Hayward [/FONT][/B]and [B][FONT=Georgia]Davon House[/FONT][/B] will all have an opportunity to start next season. “It’s going to be interesting to see who are going to be the guys who run out there on Day One,” Whitt said, “because right now I couldn’t tell you who’s going to do what because the way that Sam and Casey have played. And with Tramon and House there, there’s four guys that are vying for two spots. Maybe three with nickel. It will be interesting to see who gets it.”[/FONT][/INDENT] [SIZE=3][FONT=arial][URL='http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/187050591.html'][U][COLOR=#800080]http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/187050591.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [INDENT=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]If Tramon had played this season as he did during the 2010 season Whitt wouldn’t be saying there’ll be an open competition for the all three CB spots. I’m glad it’s happening and if Williams goes down a peg or two that’ll be good news for us because I still expect him to be good. In fact I hope his shoulder is even better this coming season than it was this year and he’ll be able to be more physical at the LOS and tackle better. Speaking of tackling, check the link for what Whitt says about Sam Shields. HardRightEdge may be right, he may require a first round tender."[/COLOR][/FONT][/INDENT] [INDENT=2] [/INDENT] [INDENT=2] [/INDENT] [INDENT=2]I guess I'm just in an agreeable mood tonight. Yeah, it's perfectly fine to have open competition at CB. However, I think that says more about the quality of Shields, House, and Hayward than about Williams fading. I stand by what I said that he had the toughest assignments of the four. We are fortunate to have all of them - as somebody once said, you can never have too many good CBs. That's especially true for the Packers with their shaky front seven (other than Matthews) and questionable Safety situation.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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