I agree Hobbs is more than adequate. Hobbs and Samuel are a very good cornerback duo. Samuel is the better of the two IMO, much smoother.
I like Hobbs.
I'm reacting to the people who think Hobbs and Gay are better than half the tandems in the NFL.
They're not and our depth consists of mostly safeties, James, who has stunk from all reports and Richardson, who looks good to me, but is still a low round rookie.
I'm not putting Hobbs down, quite the opposite. Because of injuries and holdouts he's been thrust from a nickel backup projection, (Behind Starks, Poole, Samuel, Gay and Chad Scott. Despite all but one of these going down, Hobbs didn't start until mid season).
The patriots "planned" sign Milloy to play with Rodney. When he left and Antwan Harris sucked they switched their top drafted CB to safety.
They "planned" to sign Law and he would have been smart to take it. Instead of Law and Asante, you had Asante and anybody.
Did they "plan" on handing the job to Gay? Not by spending a 3rd on starks and awaiting Poole's rehab and signing Scott.
They're lucky that Hobbs has a lot of competitiveness and that Gayis finally healthy (crosses fingers).
To say this is a plan is kind of silly, no?
I can only assume by the signing of James, that there's not much out there.
Hopefully we don't reach the point where we're looking at Earthwind's and our hybrids Wilson and Meriweather, can get us over whatever humps we encounter.
Our first round pick is a safety. We're safety rich including starters and depth. As a matter of fact, the safety we picked in round one is working out at cornerback, a position he didn't play very much in college, (outside of nickel which Sanders has played for the Pats.
I wonder why the drafted a safety and immediately start working him out at cornerback? Maybe we're lacking.