The Chris Owens Question: Should He Stay Or Should He Go?

I agree there is a difference in nickel and other corner positions. We’ll develop him for another season and pick up another corner. We have more pressing positions to deal with.

One or two horrific losses don’t negate the quality of play we had ALL year long. So we found our weaknesses, adding a couple of quality guys to the roster and asking others to RISE UP or sit down sounds like a macro plan too me. Micro I’m afraid is the tough part. Potential difficulties I see would be keeping our O Line in tact, keeping TG around for one more year and making some tough cuts to make room for new blood. TD and MS will judge them by their total body of work. That being said shouldn’t our Defense be a bit further along? BVG needs to do some soul searching. I believe our offense needs the deep threat and some play calls to complement. Minor adjustments in our offensive philosophy and personel should do fine. Our defense has no identity. I can say there was a major difference when Lofton was injured. Chris Owens…….. Damn I dont know what to say, except the loss wasn’t all his fault. That shite was a group effort.

By this logic we should take a vote on cutting Matt Ryan as he had as much to do as anybody pushing the snowball down the hill; the game was pretty much over when he threw one of the most demoralizing pick 6’s in playoff history. Owens has been very good on special teams and is one of the better tackling DBs they have although he missed a wide open sack as well as having the penalties. That being said it seemed like half the D missed wide open sacks. It was a horrendous showing by the D from BVG on down.

especially in those goal-to-go situations. He clearly just didn’t have the nuanced training on how to be physical w/out being overtly obvious about it. It makes me wonder about Tim Lewis, b/c I don’t remember any of our CBs being physical at the point of attack this year. Grimes and Dunta have natural skills that help them fight once the ball is in the air, but we hardly ever jam a WR off his line. We’ve got to start doing this, esp. against great QBs. This is clearly a schematic problem, and not necessarily a personnel issue.

Owens is young, has shown tremendous potential, and has regressed in a different position. Give the guy time. And let’s hope he, Peria, Moore, Decoud, HD, and our other young players and soon-to-be-rooks really keep progressing hard.

him we need the depth after Williams went down the only 2 guys left were Owens and Franks

You guys played great all year, unfortunately you simply ran into the wrong team at the wrong time. Keep your heads up, I look forward to the banter and the battle for the 1 seed again next year. I hope the trolling from my more immature brethren at CSC wasn’t bad.

~ regards.

Remember, he is a second year player. This was his first playoff game. Williams was the nickleback and a late injury thrust Owens into the nickle position in, again, his first playoff game. I’m sure nerves were flying, and he never really settled down after a few calls went against him and he was burned a few times. We know he has potential, he just had a rough game at the worst time. He will be back, he will be better, and we will be a better team.

He simply looked awful against the Packers.
But not only that, when he started against the Bengals w/ Dunta injured, he was getting LIT UP then too.
If you go back and look at the game film, Palmer literally threw it to Owens side EVERY passing play. Regardless if he was covering TO or Ochocinco, he was getting beat on every play.
The fact that Smitty had BWilliams starting at Nickel and not Owens leads me to believe he just is not an NFL-caliber CB. Sorry guys, but the writing is on the wall.