Eric Berry SS and Eric Weddle FS

But two top 10 safeties would be domination. ;)

Landry is overrated to the extreme, he’s actually pretty bad and he’s a strong safety to boot.(I mixed him up with Laron for a second thought I’d clarify)

Huff is actually a pretty good player, but he takes too many chances and again will be expensive.

Like 1-3 or something horrible?

SEASON TEAM GP TOT SOLO AST SACK FF FR YDS INT YDS AVG LNG TD PD STF STF YDS KB
             2007 SD 15 53 42 11 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 1 2 0
             2008 SD 16 127 105 22 1.0 0 1 0 1 3 3 3 0 5 2 5 0
             2009 SD 13 82 68 14 1.5 0 0 0 2 44 22 31 1 7 5 14 0
             2010 SD 16 96 80 16 0.5 0 0 0 2 64 32 41 1 10 4 12 0
Career 60 358 295 63 4.0 0 1 0 6 111 19 41 2 28 12 33 0

Kendrick Lewis
SEASON TEAM GP TOT SOLO AST SACK FF FR YDS INT YDS AVG LNG TD PD STF STF YDS KB
             2010 KC 12 30 22 8 0.0 1 0 0 3 46 15 23 0 7 0 0 0

For only playing in 12 games Lewis did really well as a rookie. He caused 4 turnovers in 12 games, compared to Weddle’s 7 in 60 games.

Kendrick Lewis has a bright future, but adding another safety would never be a bad thing for depth.

Champ Bailey now, not so much. I can see him as a safety, but I think the safety role and mini-LB mentality is the only strike against an illustrious career. You love him for sticking his nose in there, but you don’t want him to stick his nose in there quite so much. Still, they could invert their coverages and give teams some hard-to-figure pre-snap formations, with his coverage skills.

But yeah. Getting more depth in outstanding coverage DBs would do more to elevate the squad than another safety. One thing that I noticed about the secondary, starting with Flowers and Carr, under Edwards, was everybody tackles. And since Haley arrived, they all are good tacklers. Some of the complaints about Lewis in that area were either from rookie mistakes that cagey player won’t repeat, or attempts by him to write checks that bad ankle of his wasn’t letting him cash, later in the season.

With the work they did to get better pressure from their front 5, smart guys like Travis Daniels are going to be more effective in 2011, also, because they’ll quickly adjust their style to anticipate the timing of the pass. But I don’t think you can ever bring in too many good corners. And if you do, you can always trade to somebody dying for one, and there’s always somebody dyin’ for one.

Not only that, but you can play more aggressively – fewer “business decisions” by pure cover guys – because your supply of solid coverage ‘backs lets you send some somebody ’most as good, and even give your original #1 an extra week off for that shoulder stinger or broken finger/toe. Sure, those little fractures don’t heal in a week or two, but an extra week can make a huge difference in comfort level and speed up the return to 100%.

Could be that KC is looking to run as much or MORE nickel in 2011. Seems like opposing offenses STILL had an edge with the extra wides. KC was closing the gap, and Bailey addresses exactly the position they want in-depth. That’s the one thing he’s virtually guaranteed to provide, while guys like me talk all day about the OTHER things we’re hoping he can do, be it play lighter and give us a surplus on rush OLB or to play at or above 285 at 5-tech.

A surplus in DB talent very well might see them play a lot more nickel ‘n’ dime. They’ve gotten younger, bigger, and faster at LB. And who knows what they might get up to, when Edwards (or Smith or FA?) sits? Gabe Miller, with a running start from ILB can shoot the gap or take on OL/FB like blocking sleds. He’s a dark horse, because of the injury concerns. They might bring him along slow, at first.