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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paulska" data-source="post: 611891" data-attributes="member: 557">You make some really good points here. I don't mean to say that we don't have guys that have potential to succeed/excel on the outside- we definitely have guys with tools. Some guys have size/power, some instinct, some speed/fast twitch. I guess what I'm guilty of here is discomfort at the absence of someone that we know can perform with certainty at the position.As I mentioned before, one reason we have done well in the win column with a healthy ARod is that our QB play is generally so much better than our opponents that it translates to winning football. It's not an absolute rule, but when your QB can outplay the opposing QB by a fair to wide margin, it's a good predictor that you're going to win. The backside of this limited equation is that in addition to ARod's great play, our defense does enough to cause opposing QBs to play below how they might play otherwise. Over ARod's tenure, we've had pretty stable and effective play at CB. We don't send many CB's to the probowl/All Pro ranks, but we do better than most.The constant variable, apart from ARod being consistently otherworldly, is effective CB play. We still have that with Shields. I guess I have some concern over our stable of unknown variables and their ability to deliver similar effectiveness/consistency as we had with Tramon until he fell off last year.That said, perhaps it's opportune that Hayward only has one year left and that there are two highly drafted guys with skill sets similar to his own who are going to be expected to make a real push to win that spot outright. If he wants to get paid next season at starter money, he's going to have to deliver starter play after being injured in year two and having limited playing time in year 3.If there's one thing I would love to see from the Seahawks way of doing things with personnel is to create tough competition within the roster. It hardens the guys who start for them, and they have good depth to go behind them. Maybe what looks like a mess of question marks is the genesis of some excellence- from this hash of players comes forth a player driven to dominate and motivated to not lose his job. I can think of worse scenarios to end up with (see: any team who pays a mediocre FA CB to be the unquestioned starter with no one of substance behind them. Feels like Jacksonville, Minny and Detroit have done this for YEARS).</blockquote>

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