Sean Jones in Philly Green?

lambdo

The Eagles And S Sean Jones Have Agreed To Terms On A One-Year Contract....It's on philadelphiaeagles.com

onefellswoop7

Wow. I'm shocked. A one year deal? I know he isn't a stud safety but this is shocking. Makes me wonder if he was even wanted back here? or if this was one of his only options to start? I dunno...

hammertime

wonder who we will get in the draft

onefellswoop7

Any idea what other FA SS are available? Or...are we forced to look in the draft? (or Cribbs which has been tossed around)

Thaak

looks like the Eagles are going to have him replacing Dawkins at Free Safety.

I'm not sure Jones is going to be good at Free Safety, he seems more like a banger to me.

Although with his bum knee, and penchant for interceptions, he might actually excel at Free Safety.

NewEraDawg

Former Cleveland Browns safety Sean Jones signs with Philadelphia Eagles

by Mary Kay Cabot / Plain Dealer Reporter

Friday March 06, 2009, 4:25 PM

CLEVELAND -- Former Browns safety Sean Jones signed a one-year deal with the Eagles on Friday, the Associated Press reported.

Jones, who played five seasons with the Browns, might replace departed veteran Brian Dawkins at free safety.

Jones, who missed four games after undergoing arthrscopic knee surgery after the opener, finished with 81 tackles and four interceptions in 2008. He came on strong toward the end, making all four of his interceptions in the final six games.

Since 2006, Jones ranks third among safeties behind Baltimore's Ed Reed and St. Louis' Oshiomogho Atogwe with 14 interceptions.

Jones, who wanted to finish his career in Cleveland, was upset last season that the Browns made no attempt to re-sign him and that they continually referred to his knee injury even after he felt he was completely healthy.

In anticipation of losing Jones, the Browns re-signed safety Mike Adams Thursday to a three-year deal worth $4.1 million.

? mz.

Shit more by our new front office. I strongly feel we should have resigned him.

There better be something majorly wrong with him for us to pass like this...

NewEraDawg

Man there is a thing called the draft . And also teams are not done making changes . Jones was wanting big bucks , and also wanted out .

Vegasdogg

mz. said:
Shit more by our new front office. I strongly feel we should have resigned him.
There better be something majorly wrong with him for us to pass like this...

He signed a one year deal. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his health/ability going into 2009. Not sure many teams felt as strongly as you. We need a safety now, but not an overpaid, underperforming guy like Sean.

? mz.

I'm just looking at the trash we have, safety-wise. Guess I'm the only one bothered by this...

DTBH

I'm bothered by it. But I think it tells us 1. His injury problems are too much and/or 2. this administration plans on completely rebuilding everything and we better get used to it.

Sturim

well, Im not exactly an Adams fan. Im getting the feeling this season is going to make last season not look so bad. I felt that Jones was one FA we would sign and bring back, but I guess I was wrong on that. At least after last season I think I have my expectations for this franchise in check and really don't get too bent out of shape over the moves made in cleveland anymore.

Gips

I was hoping jones would come back but to take a 1 year deal he obviously really wanted out i think this was a bad mistake by mankok letting jones go now we have even more concerns in our already suspect secondary..

JewDago

mz. said:
I'm just looking at the trash we have, safety-wise. Guess I'm the only one bothered by this...

definitely not the only one. this doesn't bode well for our season. i expected it to be ugly, but it'll be terrible if we walk into the year with pool and adams as our starters. we either need adams as depth and insurance or we need someone comparable behind him if mankok thinks he's matured into an every-down guy, especially considering pool's concussion history.

Vegasdogg

mz. said:
I'm just looking at the trash we have, safety-wise. Guess I'm the only one bothered by this...

No, but it all depends on the pass rush. I am not going to overpay and lock my team into Sean Jones if he is not worth it. He got a 1 year deal from Philly, who needs to replace Dawkins. Doesn't that tell you anything?

? mz.

@vegasdogg said:
He got a 1 year deal from Philly, who needs to replace Dawkins. Doesn't that tell you anything?

Yes, it does.

It tells me, unlike us, Philly is willing to take a 1-year gamble on a good (when healthy) safety who will be, at worst, a stopgap until they draft someone better than we'll draft to replace him b/c they are way smarter than we are.

We know what we get with Jones. When healthy, he's a good safety, and it isn't like we have any viable solutions at that position to let him walk. We blew it, big time, with this one IMO. End of story.

? AdaM

mz. said:
Yes, it does.
It tells me, unlike us, Philly is willing to take a 1-year gamble on a good (when healthy) safety who will be, at worst, a stopgap until they draft someone better than we'll draft to replace him b/c they are way smarter than we are.

We know what we get with Jones. When healthy, he's a good safety, and it isn't like we have any viable solutions at that position to let him walk. We blew it, big time, with this one IMO. End of story.

It tells me we're strongly considering drafting a safety.

? mz.

AdaM said:
It tells me we're strongly considering drafting a safety.

After Mays withdrew his name, I crossed safety off the board.

JewDago

mz. said:
After Mays withdrew his name, I crossed safety off the board.

especially because it's such a strong position in next year's draft.

? AdaM

mz. said:
After Mays withdrew his name, I crossed safety off the board.

We're going to have a great shot at him next year by the look of things....