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Laron Landry


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I'll bet that the Bengals sign him. He's Zimmer kind of safety.

Well, if by "Zimmer kind of safety" you mean "like Roy Williams you can count on him to spend half the year hurt on the bench," then yeah, he's a Zimmer kind of safety.

Landry has missed 15 games over the past two years with an ongoing Achilles injury, in addition to struggling with hand and groin problems. P-A-S-S.

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Landry can cover, the question is can he stay healthy.

I am a fan of picking up Landry in FA, every FA is going to have some flaws, Army at this point you are sounding an awful lot like Jerry Seinfeld evaluating women...does Landry have "man hands"?

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Landry can cover, the question is can he stay healthy.

I am a fan of picking up Landry in FA, every FA is going to have some flaws, Army at this point you are sounding an awful lot like Jerry Seinfeld evaluating women...does Landry have "man hands"?

If they view him as a better STRONG SAFETY option than what we have and feel the best way to spend FA agent dollars is on broke players, then cool.

If the thought is, he will take Nelson's spot, then i'm even less enamored.

Being less enamored is pretty d*mn bad at this point.

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I'm with Critic - no way in hell. I wouldn't be surprised if some team found themselves without his services for a 4 game stretch.

*Unusually ripped physique that doesn't match his frame? Check.

*Too heavy for his position? Check.

*Ongoing tendon problems? Check.

Obviously can't prove anything, but I wouldn't take the chance. Even if he is completely clean, overweight + weak connective tissue = bad.

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Don't know anything about this guy really, seems he has experience and potential to play at a high level but has the achiles injury completely healed or taken it's toll??.

If we signed him to a low $ contract or even a "get paid if you played" type of deal would that be more acceptable? Probably not to Landry though.

Seems he'd be an big improvement to the backfield if he is over his injury but guess the medical staff would have a close look at things if he was a serious option to bring into Cincy.

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For comparison against the current roster according to Bengals.com and NFL.com :-

LaRon Landry - 27 yrs old - 6'0" - 220 lbs - 64 games with 5 yrs experience - 383 combined tackles with 4 interceptions and 5.1/2 sacks

Chris Crocker - 31 yrs old - 5'11" - 197 lbs - 126 games with 10 yrs experience - 476 combined tackles with 10 interceptions and 13 sacks

Gibril Wilson - 30 yrs old - 6'0" - 206 lbs - 100 games with 9 yrs experience - 615 combined tackles with 13 interceptions and 8.1/2 sacks

Reggie Nelson - 28 yrs old - 5'11" - 206 lbs - 77 games with 6 yrs experience - 326 combined tackles with 13 interceptions and 3 sacks

Taylor Mays - 24 yrs old - 6'3" - 230 lbs - 26 games with 3 yrs experience - 48 combined tackles with 0 interceptions and 0 sacks

Jeromy Miles - 24 yrs old - 6'2" - 210 lbs - 22 games with 3 yrs experience - 20 combined tackles with 0 interceptions and 0 sacks

Robert Sands - 22 yrs old - 6'4" - 209 lbs - 1 game with 2 yrs experience - 0 combined tackles with 0 interceptions and 0 sacks

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The dropped INT and that pathetic attempt to tackle Foster was the end for me.

And it may prove to have been the end for Crocker as well.

Would love to see Mays or Sands pushing for a starting spot. Wouldn't be too upset to see Landry too if he is over his injuries/surgery.

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For those keeping score on the safety front, it appears that the Titans will tag safety Michael Griffin instead of Cortland Finnegan. So that makes three safeties, Griffin, Branch and Golden, who got tagged.

On the RB front, the Seahawks got a new deal done with Marshawn Lynch, and the Texans got a new deal done with Foster.

Finally, on the WR front, the Bills have done a deal with Johnson so he isn't going anywhere.

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