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I think as Pats fans we've been taught that high stats are cool but versatility is cooler -- because that's the way the Pats have typically done it. With the Red Sox, for so long I use to go through the columns of stat leaders and felt that surge of pride at having the HR leader, batting average leader, or in the Pedro years, combination strikeouts/ERA leader... and for the longest time they lost anyway. With the Pats it never got like that until the offensive records last year.
I still run into fans of other teams crowing about the departure of Asante Samuel and his 10 interceptions two years ago (forgetting his six last year.)
Well, turnovers are important as hell, as an aggregate, but your first job as a CB is to make sure receivers don't catch the ball (and if they do, they pay for it. A lot. That was the old Ty Law theory.)
Asante is very good. I don't think Hobbs is as good, but coming along. Not the doormat Philip Rivers thought, you can certainly say that
But Asante is not the second coming of Deion Sanders. For the coin he wanted, he was a definite liability.
But maybe Arlen Specter is happy LOL
PFnV
I still run into fans of other teams crowing about the departure of Asante Samuel and his 10 interceptions two years ago (forgetting his six last year.)
Well, turnovers are important as hell, as an aggregate, but your first job as a CB is to make sure receivers don't catch the ball (and if they do, they pay for it. A lot. That was the old Ty Law theory.)
Asante is very good. I don't think Hobbs is as good, but coming along. Not the doormat Philip Rivers thought, you can certainly say that
But Asante is not the second coming of Deion Sanders. For the coin he wanted, he was a definite liability.
But maybe Arlen Specter is happy LOL
PFnV