play him once every 4 weeks. just make sure he's in the video room and knows the defense well. make sure there are no mats or anything he can trip on. don't let him carry his own bags either. we don't want his back breaking.
I get where your coming from, but sometimes players just have bad luck. Why not give this guy a chance? Make his contract so that it is loaded with incentives and if he gets injured doesnt cost us much?
We could keep him in a big glass case until we need him in the AFC Championship game and break him out once our defense starts to fold like a cheap suit. If he survives until halftime it'll be worth every penny.
I am not saying Sanders will ever be healthy, but don't mention the Jet safeties as if they aren't injury prone. Leonhard missed the last month of the season and is small. He may not hold up physically long term. Eric Smith is one mistep into a closed door from another (and possible final) concussion. If Sanders passes a physical now, he isn't that much more of a risk than what is on the roster right now.
That's silly. Look at how many times Sanders has been injured compared to the Jets safeties. Sanders, games played: 2004: 6 2005: 14 2006: 4 2007: 15 2008: 6 2009: 2 2010: 1
ok so bythat logic,there is now 3 injury prone safeties on the roster and it is still a position of concern. i'd rather they pass.add him and you still feel like you need another safety
Now making jokes is overreacting? He's doing the same as he's doing every year at this point: fine. Then a few games in, he's done for the year all over again.
Good thing for him did NFL did have 18 week season before hand. His career would have been over after 3 seasons!
It's not just Sanders' constant injuries that would cause concern if I were a GM... it's the nature of those injuries. Two torn biceps, opposite arms, in two seasons? For a guy under 30? And even when he was healthy, he was a bit of a liability in coverage. Great run-stuffer when he'd come up into the box, but I always thought he was a little over-rated, even at his peak. Granted, if the Jets can get him for a minimum or incentive-based contract, it would be worth bringing him into camp. (If there is one.)
Maybe I'm alone on this but Smith scares me (usually twice a game). The fact that he didn't get flagged for that hit on Welker in the divisional game was pure luck. At least half the officiating crews in the league would've called that. I love him on ST but as a starter he's just prone to the boneheaded penalty, usually at the worst possible moment.
