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Gregory was another example of excessive expectations. He will NEVER be a "big hitting safety like Laron Landry. He is more of a technician, who is going to be more effective than spectacular. Sort of the anti-Brandon Merriweather.Love the physicality that the current secondary players bring, and I think that Gregory has been holding his own lately--much to my complaining about him at times earlier in the year.
I'm certainly not writing off Wilson, and I look forward to him being much improved next season.I will admit that while I do think that Wilson can become a safety of the future, I thought that his turnovers were more in the "lucky" Arrington mode of 2011. He has been in the BB doghouse, apparently his tendency to allow someone to get behind him while guarding the 5 yd line in back to back weeks did not go over well.
Chung is the epitome of this defense. Last season when he came back he was literally the best overall DB we had at the end of the season. This season when he comes back what was our best DB last season, is now merely a decent back up. THAT is how far the depth of talent has come over the last season.Chung is who we thought he was...as he has been delegated to a bit/role player. Finally.
I'm beginning to believe you are right. It even makes me more excited to see this secondary with Dowling back. That will give up TWO "big" CBs in the mix (assuming we resign Talib.The movement of DMcC to free safety has propelled the entire secondary to better results, as safety play is so important in this league. The 'step down' from McCourty to Dennard has not been noticeable enough to warrant DMcC moving back to CB. That said, Dennard is a great surprise and has been holding his own, so everything is working cohesively back there at the moment.
this could have been Arrington's best game of the year last night. Kind of shows how the defensive secondary is maturing and the relative role of confidence in how a team plays.Kyle Arrington has looked miles apart from his earlier play, as keeping him in the slot has really played to his benefit.
Amen, that's about all we can say. Almost as amazing as his level of play is his stamina. Truly amazing. However one negative about Wilfolk.....his interceptions are down this year.Wilfolk is just a beast. You're right about that.
I saw only one drop. The rest IMHO, were off target throws. I think Fencer made an interesting observation in his thread that opined that Welker can be a victim of his short arms and has a smaller catch radius that makes an accurate QB a bigger need for him that most. Nothing personal in that, just a physical limitation. Bottom line, he can probably make more money somewhere else, but he isn't going to have the same kind of success he's had here with Brady. (even though I think Brady missed him a few times.Welker had a nice start, but dropped too many balls and couldn't get on the same page.
Word is that both are likely to be fine for Sunday night.Hopefully the injuries to Dennard, Arrington, and Talib are minor as they have obvious huge importance moving forward.
I don't know who's available, but that would be my #1 priority either in the draft or FA.I'd love to finally get that interior presence as a 3rd down rush specialist. It's a shame that both Fanane and Pryor did not work out.
Brady got knocked around waaay too much for my liking tonight, but you have to give credit to the great front line of the Texans too. Hopefully we can learn from that a bit moving forward to the SF game. It also shows how tough Brady is, as he was walking and jogging a bit gingerly and stiff at one point, and can be seen when he gets up from his slide on the scramble in the .gif on page 13 of the post-game thread (although that isn't where it happened and it was prior to that). Despite being slightly dinged up and having the usual December bumps and bruises, he still played through them as he always does. The warrior in him really comes out, and the scramble for the first down only proves that more.
Despite the one sack, that was probably the most Brady has been hit this season. But it was a strange night for the OL. In the first quarter no one got NEAR Brady. Then during that stretch in the 2nd where they couldn't move the ball, he was getting hit nearly every play. Then in the second half, it was more of a mixed bag, where Brady got his a few times, but the OL was mostly back in control. IIRC I heard the official number of hits after passing was 7. So that's 8 including the sack. That's certainly not ideal, and probably one of the reasons Brady told Young and Dilfer, he felt he left too many plays out on the field. Evidently he felt that during that dry spell he either missed open guys, didn't get to the right play or guys missed blocks. All 3 of those things happened.
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