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Don't know if anyone has posted this but I found these comments by Bill
on Artrell very encouraging. If he stays healthy and Hobbs keeps improving
this Defense is going to be awesome in the playoffs. I just feel it.
"I think the big thing that Artrell has given us is he’s really given us more team speed on the field and he’s done a good job of tackling. I thought that the play he made on short yardage there was a really good play in the Tampa game on third-and-one. Again, Artrell is really a corner playing safety. He doesn’t have a lot of background at safety in his NFL career, a little bit in college. So you really have a corner playing safety. For a guy to make a play like that in short yardage, you don't see that a lot. I thought he did a good job there and he's made some good open field tackles where it looks like the guy has some space out there in the open field and he's able to close in and pretty much get him down pretty quickly after he caught the ball. We've had a lot of plays this year where that wasn't the case, where it looks like it's going to be a five yard gain and it ends up being 25, tackling and poor angles and poor leverage on the ball and things like that that showed up as a major issue.
But, he’s fast and he has good range for the safety position and he's done a good job as a contact player both in hitting and tackling and forcing the run when he's been asked to do that"
on Artrell very encouraging. If he stays healthy and Hobbs keeps improving
this Defense is going to be awesome in the playoffs. I just feel it.
"I think the big thing that Artrell has given us is he’s really given us more team speed on the field and he’s done a good job of tackling. I thought that the play he made on short yardage there was a really good play in the Tampa game on third-and-one. Again, Artrell is really a corner playing safety. He doesn’t have a lot of background at safety in his NFL career, a little bit in college. So you really have a corner playing safety. For a guy to make a play like that in short yardage, you don't see that a lot. I thought he did a good job there and he's made some good open field tackles where it looks like the guy has some space out there in the open field and he's able to close in and pretty much get him down pretty quickly after he caught the ball. We've had a lot of plays this year where that wasn't the case, where it looks like it's going to be a five yard gain and it ends up being 25, tackling and poor angles and poor leverage on the ball and things like that that showed up as a major issue.
But, he’s fast and he has good range for the safety position and he's done a good job as a contact player both in hitting and tackling and forcing the run when he's been asked to do that"