The Jets Sign Special Teamer LB Lance Laury

Mike Westhoff's unit had some voids to fill. As a result, the Jets have signed LB Lance Laury (a special teams ace). He recorded 63 special teams tackles in four seasons in Seattle.

Laury is coming off a great season, where he recorded 21 tackles and a forced fumble.

This is what Field Gulls wrote about him in February:

"Seattle has been very patient with Laury, but he never developed as a linebacker and was a marginal special teams player. Laury will probably sign to a team that has less linebacker depth, get cut, bounce around for a while and then retire. All in all, not a bad NFL career."

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Laury? We signed a girl to play special teams? Westhoff must be pissed!

Dumped Edgar Renteria and adopted Buster Posey. Biggest upgrade since George Jefferson moved up to a deluxe apartment on the east side!

by rxmeister on Mar 19, 2010 4:02 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Heard that he had some good effects on special teams, but not much good on D, will get him a chance though, see how he gets on.

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by David_Wyatt on Mar 19, 2010 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

Added in some things.

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by Matt Birch on Mar 19, 2010 5:16 PM EDT reply actions

Cool. Thanks, Matt.

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by dvdvil on Mar 19, 2010 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t think the Laury signing has had the same effect as the LT one ;-)

Only a couple of comments lol

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by David_Wyatt on Mar 19, 2010 9:24 PM EDT reply actions

Something doesn't make sense

Is he a “marginal special teams player” or a “special teams ace”??? I guess it’s all a matter of perspective. A nice replacement for Wallace Wright nonetheless.

by BWJ on Mar 19, 2010 10:02 PM EDT reply actions

Good eyes.

We’ve got a few special teams vacancies, so this move seems solid enough.

by random122 on Mar 19, 2010 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I had heard that he was more the special teams ace than the marginal special teams players. It’s hard to evaluate personally because don’t see too many special team highlight reels lol

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by David_Wyatt on Mar 19, 2010 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, 21 tackles and a fumble strictly on specials teams last year seems pretty good (compared to 7 and 1 from Izzo and 12 and 1 from Murrell).

by random122 on Mar 20, 2010 2:08 AM EDT up reply actions

I guess it's a fine line

between “ace” and “marginal” when you are talking special teamers. They only get a handful of opportunities per game to begin with, so we’re talking about a difference of maybe 5-10 tackles and 1-2 forced turnovers making the distinction.

by BWJ on Mar 20, 2010 8:33 AM EDT reply actions