Chiefs sign Safety Steve Gregory
 

Aaron Wilson ‏@RavensInsider 4m
Former Patriots and Chargers safety Steve Gregory has signed with the Chiefs, according to his agent, David Canter

To the scrap heap

In

I like this. How old is the guy?

This. Changes. Everything!!!

2 recovered fumbles (one leading to a touchdown, during the now infamous Butt-Fumble play)

30

Everybody get in!

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This thread is going to be a must read after games.

LMAO

To the Edmund Fitzgerald!

Or we could have spent 1.4M (back in April) on a proven top 20 guy in Cliemons. Chiefs, GD.

Maybe we should sign Gordan Lightfoot to play safety?

We already got a token Canadian

Why do that when we can put all our eggs in a brokedick basket?

:banghead:

At least he's got a positive attitude...

http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootba...ves_the_b.html

Steve Gregory, still an NFL free agent, believes the 'best years of my career' are coming up

Ex-Syracuse football defensive back Steve Gregory (28) would like to play a few more seasons in the NFL.
By Nate Mink | nmink@syracuse.com

on April 02, 2014 at 3:55 PM


Syracuse, N.Y. — Steve Gregory is back in the area, occasionally working out at a local YMCA in between shuttling back and forth to Boston. His father lives in Baldwinsville, the in-laws live 15 minutes outside Utica, and Gregory and his wife are expecting their first child June 21, daughter Aviana.

Life is good for the ex-Syracuse defensive back. But Gregory is also living in the kind of football limbo he did not see coming last month when he was released by the New England Patriots for salary cap reasons.

A month from the NFL Draft, Gregory is still available on the free agent market and believes his best playing days are ahead of him following a career season with the Patriots.

"A lot of things I hear, there's speculation that I might be too old at 31, which is in my mind, I think it's absolutely crazy," Gregory said by phone Wednesday afternoon.

"I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my career. I'm just as athletic as when I first started out. I know the value I have. The experience I gained over the years makes me that much more of a player. Playing time and experience has really changed my game and evolved it to the point where I feel like I can have some of the best years of my career coming up, so I think those type of values are what teams should be looking at as opposed to just a number in age."

An eight-year NFL veteran, Gregory has not been offered a contract since the Patriots cut him last month. He said his agent, David Canter, "has been in touch with pretty much every team" but many are continuing the evaluation process of going through team needs while figuring in the accounting to stay under the salary cap. Draft day, Gregory said, could be the next period when talks intensify.

"I don't really have the magic crystal ball that says a specific date for when teams are going to start looking for more veterans and more guys who are on the free agent market," Gregory said, "but it can happen at any moment."

Gregory said the Patriots have not approached him about returning to New England under a restructured contract but said "it would definitely be a place I would love to go back to."

"I don't think it's something that they don't want to do," Gregory said. "I loved it in New England. I got really close with the team and the coaches, and I really enjoyed my time out there." Gregory signed a three-year deal with the Pats in 2012 and would have counted $3.68 million against the cap for 2014.

Gregory would like to play a few more seasons in the NFL. Without any contract offers, however, he doesn't have leverage to decide where to play, a bit of an inconvenience with a newborn on the way.

"There's a fine line there as to what kind of contract you will take or you won't take," Gregory said. "Ultimately I want to be playing in the NFL next year. I'm sure I'd be willing to take something that is going to get me on the field."

He spent the past two seasons with the Patriots and is coming off a season in which he racked up a career-best 79 tackles for the AFC runner-up.

Gregory, a Staten Island native, starred at Syracuse from 2002-05, where he switched from the secondary to wide receiver his junior year only to return to the secondary as a senior. He left the school ranked third on SU's career passes defended list with 40, third on the pass break-ups record chart with 34 and tied for second with five blocked field goals.

Gregory spent his first six NFL seasons with the San Diego Chargers. He has appeared in 111 games and recorded 357 tackles, seven interceptions, two forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries — including the touchdown on the infamous "butt-fumble" by former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.

"I feel like I have a lot of value and I'm surprised that I haven't been signed already," Gregory said. "But, you know, teams have their own agenda and ways of doing things. Last time I became a free agent I signed on the second day of free agency. This time around it's more of a waiting game.

"I've always been kind of a believer and I don't really try to dwell on too many things that I can't control. This is just one of those that I really can't control, so for me it's more working out and waiting."

He's really not that bad at this point in the league year. We would have definately done worse. There is some talk the Saints could cut Champ Bailey. Would you guys give him a look at FS?

Longing for the days of Jerome Woods and Reggie Tongue.

STEEEEVE!

The Texans signed Clemons to a contract Friday, the team announced. The deal is worth $2.7 million over two years with $450,000 guaranteed, John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reported.

Eric Berry must be done for the year.......

This offseason couldn't get anymore solid..

Would rather have signed Kerry Rhodes.

CAN DERON CHERRY COME OUT OF RETIREMENT?

Wait, are people legitimately flipping ass because of Sanders Commings being injured?

That dude was dead on arrival. Nothing has really changed in our safeties. We're still going to be hurting depth-wise, just like we were before the draft.

How long has it been since he's played?

He still plays......



































...WITH DICKS HA!

Is he related to Jack Shit?

LMAO

The Clarks have that money between the cushions of their imported Italian sofa.

TO THE **** IT.

AS11 hits that one receiver who out jumped that one safety for 6. /Chiefs camp report

He's not great or starter material or anything, but I'm surprised he was still still available today.

Yes. They're cousins.

No, I cant speak for anyone else but Im irked by losing Commings because the Chiefs did NOTHING to improve the position this off season, when EVERYONE knew it was a position of weakness, and Commings was going to be counted on even though he missed all of last season which was stupid in of itself...:shake:

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Yep. He was just sitting around WAITING to be signed.

Gregory is a willing, but not strong, tackler, who doesn't have the kind of range to get to the sidelines in time. He's a smart guy who can run the defensive backfield, too.


:thumb:

Thank god!

Cool. Sounds like the ideal kind of player to get burned by Manning's quick hitches

Ugh... I know. I'm just...

:shake:

Is he the one who pick off Matt Cassel with that easy pick 6?

I was being a bit of a smartass by describing him in a way similar to Lewis, but Gregory would probably be ok if he was being used in tandem with Berry and the front 7 was able to get fairly consistent pressure. He'd still be a weakness, but he wouldn't be an absolute disaster if Sutton used him properly (unless he's really in a steep decline).

You'll have to be more specific....

LMAOLMAO

Now that was funny

Decent vet depth.

Dude can cover on the butt fumble play.

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this is sad, they had every chance in the offseason to sign any of those safeties and they sat on their hands banking on broke dick sanders commings and now they have to hit the panic button and scrape the bottom of the barrel for help.

in a passing league. good QBs are going to have a field day on the back end of our defense all year long, again. It's like they learned NOTHING from last year.

Which one?

Safeties that look like kickers are where it's at.

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lol

What are you laughing at short bus. :cuss:

Succop ain't getting cut. He's moving to safety.

Now wait....... he had 79 tackles last season ! Did I read that right ? Was that for the Patriots ???

He was cut for salary cap reasons ???

So he's better than Berry anyway ?????

Or Commings

Now that's a waste of salary cap space. Who on earth is running that franchise? Don't they know they have the great, multiple Pro Bowler & future Hall of Famer in Can'tdrick Lewis on the roster?

If you're a fan of profootballfocus....

Not bad for a back up.

most of us knew that safety was a problem and that keeping Abdullah was not enough.

Nothing against Steve Gregory but Dorsey simply didn't do enough.


Unless UDFA Daniel Sorensen is a stud

Not bad at all. Wonder why they are presuming Gaines is a safety.

Abdullah listed him as being in the safety competition. So I guess they're going to have him play both safety and corner.

Didn't hear that. Thanks. He may see more time than anticipated the way things are going in TC.

That's a dumb move by the Chiefs, IMO. I don't like that.

Dorsey didn't do enough anywhere.

I also haven't heard ANY reports whatsoever of Gaines being lined up as a safety in training camp practice

This...The joke of an off season will rear its ugly head in more places as the season continues.

Chiefs went into this off-season needing defensive back and wide receiver help.

Their answers? Weston Dressler and Phillip Gaines while subtracting Flowers.

Makes no sense.

The Chiefs are doing everything they can to win a Super Bowl this year!

They also completely ignored WR in a draft chock full of incredible talent at the position.

They DO, however, get a participation trophy for Emmanuel Sanders

Haven't you seen the practice reports? We have at least 5 All-Pros in the making at WR on our team.

If almost anyone else posted this, I'd think sarcasm and not give it a 2nd thought.

But you posted this, so I have no idea if this is sarcasm.

:thumb:

Take a wild guess. I've said, time and time again, that our WR core was absolute crap even with Bowe on the team. My opinion on that hasn't changed just because they've been able to make plays on a possibly even worse secondary.

I would pay to see that

Dorsey will poach another corner after cuts like he did with cooper :shrug:

He's pretty good on Meet The Press. Can't hurt to give him a look.

At #24 in the waiver claim order, there will be no poaching.

At #1 last year, the Chiefs had the pick of the litter.

David Gregory?

And no, David Gregory ****ing sucks ass. Tim Russert would probably want his show killed with fire if he could see what it's turned into

:banghead:

Let's bring him in for a look then.

Dorsey is incompetent

Either that or he knows something that we don't.