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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I don't understand the intent behind this negativity myself. There always will be starting players who struggle at one time or another on any team. Why focus on picking someone you can harp on?
For those who don't want to take the trouble, the quote is:I am surprised no one said Marcus Pollard although he is not really a starter - yet.
Remember this little ditty by Pollard? - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5DC1639F934A25752C0A9629C8B63
Think Rodney will have a little something for Marcus during practice, delivered with a smile?Pollard said that if the Colts kept playing as well as they had in their first two playoff games -- they haven't had to punt in either of them -- then ''they might as well just hand us the rings.''
Patriots safety Rodney Harrison was irked by the remark this week
Who was your least favorite starting patriot in the 07-08 season?
My least favorite pat is Benjamin Watson. He was our starting TE last year and though he has the perfect body to be a great tight end he continues to SUCK! Plus with injury issues and his unreliable hands it makes him 10 times worse. Who is ur least fav?
I don't think you are watching him very fairly. First off he wasn't ten yards from Buress on the last play. Also usually when a guy lets up a TD it is because the guy got past him, I would be concerned if he was letting up TDs and he was a yard away from the guy.
Maybe You should pay a bit more attention to the fact that football is a team game. Teams were throwing away from Samuel last season and throwing toward Hobbs. What do you expect of Hobbs? What cornerback doesn't get beaten sometimes if teams are running formations and schemes to throw his way? And I guess all those times he got beat really hurt the Pats, considering all the games the games they lost last season.
And if you are going to rag on Hobbs, which seems to be a cult around here, for the last G-men touchdown, then at least realize that Hobbs said he was playing Burress so he did not beat Hobbs over the middle. Where was the safety help on that play? Oh, yeah, that's right, they were blitzing because Dean Pees called a middle blitz. I guess that was Hobbs' fault, too.
As for having the ball thrown right to him, at least he caught those interceptions. More than you can say for Asante, who dropped a duck tossed up by Eli that would have won the game.
You guys are defending Hobbs by saying that he NEEDS safety help over the top everytime he gets burned. Good cornerbacks don't always require help over the top. Good cornerbacks can make up in coverage if the safety has another assignment on the play. If a CB needs safety help over the top on every single play in a game, he simply isn't that good.
You know what that means? That means I have a real future in the NFL. I could let a guy beat me by 20 yards, does that mean I should be paid twice as much as Ellis?
Ellis is in the bottom 5 of NFL starting corners. I can't think of a CB that is worse than he is, but I am sure that there might be one or two out there.
Who was your least favorite starting patriot in the 07-08 season?
My least favorite pat is Benjamin Watson. He was our starting TE last year and though he has the perfect body to be a great tight end he continues to SUCK! Plus with injury issues and his unreliable hands it makes him 10 times worse. Who is ur least fav?
I don't get it.
Sounds like a thread that some Pats fan would start on a Colts board to piss some people off and start an argument.
Anyway, Whatever - Flame on about our guys if you feel so inclined, I don't.