The Safety group will still require additional depth. You might be okay going into the year with Gipson and Church, but this is not Grant and Darius (not even close). Even if you use last season as a bar, the deviation of play will only be so much better. Church is not the tackler that Cyp was, but slightly better in coverage with more wear and tear.

 

Going off of comments, news reports out of Dallas, it appears Church has some strong leadership ability that Cyp mus have lacked so maybe there is an upgrade in that sense. The Church Signing has more to do with the winning-disciplined-love of football philosophy that Coughlin wants to install more than being a great talent upgrade.

 

However the need is really going to come in 2018 or 2019 because when it comes to on the field play, the position is still going to struggle in some areas. Gipson has not established himself as a lock for starting at FS, nor garner a re-signing. I'd be looking for UFA's and some drafted depth for sure.

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