Just a simple explanation that those who only rely on playoff records and judge a singular position, are LCD thinkers and more often than not, motivated reasoners. True Stephen A Smith type acolytes.
Except kickers! Fuck those guys..... you have to make key kicks, that's the job. Kick well or die!
Definitely very flawed defenses..... Last "great" D we had was in 23' and many of us here were extremely worried about the secondary and whether or not they were really very good. When's the last fucking time we had a good safety? Woodson? Guy should be in the HOF by now. Speaking of the secondary:
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Couple of things and this goes to Eberflus really not scheming to our player's strengths, rather than being a zealot to his "system". It also reviews a point I made last week about injured guys coming back. Diggs, who was benched, had his best game of the season and I don't think it's a surprise it's a month in. While he'll never be a physical corner, I think he'll continue to get better, if he can avoid injury, as the season continues -- his knee gets stronger, dexterity improves and the twitch starts coming back naturally. I expect a couple rougher outings maybe but the back half of the season he could be solid corner again... hopefully. They also got him playing just a touch more man and he got to play a little more press. He made a great play late in sniffing out a WR screen and making a TFL.
On the other end of the spectrum is Bland..... he's just making his way back from re-aggravating an injury AND he's playing out of position. He's never been a great outside CB - field or boundary and instead when he was breaking records, it was out of the slot. Now maybe they're managing his injury a little before putting him back in the slot, but it's weird they've been trying to make him an outside corner for 2 years. Also, for folks wondering why Murray and Sanborn, who are truly awful in complementary aspects of the game, continue to get a lot of reps, look at James and Liufau..... James in coverage was particular bad. I feel like instead of having two bad players on the field, we should have Murray and Sanborn play the same position (Sanborn on early obvious run downs and Murray vs obvious pass downs) and have one collaborative solid player, but I'm probably over simpflying things. Our safeties are still shit but nice to see Thomas play competently off the bench. How sad is it, that our DL is still functionally the strength of the defense. Defensive player acquisition has been fucking terrible the last 5 years. Just fucking awful.