How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

I was thinking about this today, while I think its too much to say that one player can "save" your defense, but if he can be the top20 CB that he has been, here in new england it can have trickle down effects on the secondary.

for one, you no longer are relying on Arrington who has been horrible and Dennard(a rookie) as your #1 and #2 CB's since it appears Mccourty is going to stay at safety....or if chung comes back, you can move McCourty as your #2CB which is definitely a much better tandem than Arrington/Dennard

adding Talent in the secondary is always a good thing. Im hoping that Talib can contribute and help get our defense in line...because we are going to NEED him to be a solid coverage CB

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

If Talib can somewhat hold down his side of the field on his own it means McCourty can cheat more towards Dennard's side so he has safety help over the top...that would obviously mean some sort of improvement.

They key though, they HAVE to play man to man press coverage, Talib & Dennard are made for that.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

will be more talent..but the D will still be gashed by sub par QBs

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

He won't help much at all unless having him gives them confidence to play man-to-man press coverage.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

Hopefully we'll be stronger in the soft area if we don't have to have everybody covering deeper routes. Adding a player from the top pushing everyone down a peg is always the best move ... it has to help.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

Not enough if the DL keeps getting minimal pressure on opposing QB's.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

With the missing of tackles we saw today, patching the secondary might take a back seat to other concerns. I'm hoping it was just a bit of post-bye week hangover. It has been a long time since I've seen us miss tackles like that.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

The middle of the field was wide open, hopefully he can allow SOMEONE to play pass defense in the middle of the field. I don't think Fitzpatrick had an incompletion between the hashes.

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

As long as Matt Patricia is still the DC, Talib is gonna stink. The culture and DNA needs to change as it starts from the top

Re: How much can Aqib Talib help our Secondary?
 

This secondary is so bad that I don't think Deon Sanders at CB would help it that much. From what I can see, the only thing that is going to "help" this defense is Tom Brady finishing drives and scoring TDs in the 4th quarter.

It's pretty sobering when 3rd and 15 is a "favorable down and distance" for your opponent, but that's where we are at with this Pats defense.