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McCourty should be at a point that he should be picking off some of those deep in cuts and all he does is make the tackle after the catch. He sucked at corner and gave up the most yards in the history of the NFL. Average at best as a safety. Like it has been stated in the thread where is the big play? Where is the big hit?
What gets overlooked in the Pats last SB win when they beat the Eagles was Rodney Harrison's three game playoff series. He made key INTs in all three games which helped the Pats to win the SB. McCourty to be paid as a top safety needs to do that for his team.
I'm well known around here as one who's not worried about criticizing Patriots players (many of the homers would phrase that far less politely), so I'm not coming at this from the shill point of view. That being said, let's get real here. The safety position is currently weak across the league. The idea that McCourty is just average is nonsensical. If you want to argue that he's not a top 3/5/7/10 safety, that's one thing. Claiming he's average at best? Please, feel free to slot last year's starting safeties and show us where McCourty falls in the middle/slightly below the middle (32 teams, 2 safeties = 64 safeties, meaning you're rating McCourty someone in the 30-40 range). Make it easy on yourself. Just go division by division. Start with the NFCE, NCFN, and NFCS, and I think you'll start to realize that your position doesn't hold water.