Kontradiction
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It's a good question you're asking.
I am boggled by what some people claim to know about our defensive secondary. It makes me feel like they must have access to the All-22 tape, because I never feel like I'm in a position to make a determination about anything I rarely see on television.
The only information that helps me form my decision about our defenders are the few plays I get to see them in coverage, and how the coaches regulate their playing time (which often can be a product of things we know very little about, i.e. Merriweather and meetings, etc.).
And I rarely feel like I have enough of it to make an informed statement on how good X or Y is. And I personally don't feel comfortable judging someone's entire body of work based on one or two bad plays that lead to TDs.
I also have to remind myself that the other team gets paid to play, also, and a lot of things can be related to the defensive scheme. Not every completion is automatically an incompletion or interception if our guy has a different, more popular nametag on his back.
It helps to have a DVR where you can watch the games and players, specifically (when you can see them, of course), that you want to see. I find that I do that moreso after a thread on here about the player in question. Also, I get a lot out of watching Mike Mayock break down film on NFL Network. As well as reading the threads on here that break down the game from posters like Patspsycho and, occasionally (since he doesn't grace us with his posts too much anymore), Box.
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