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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Sounds like the job Arrington did against Hilton when we played the Colts. Is Arrington a #1 or #2 corner? Point I am trying to make is he is an unknown and while there's a good chance he turns into a #1 or #2 corner there's always a good chance he is nothing more then an Arrington if even that. You may have confidence he can cover Brandon Marshall next season, I dont. I haven't seen enough to say that.No that's not IT.
He made four great plays in the second half of the SuperBowl when he replaced Arrington. He had Kearse one-on-one on most of those plays.
PLAY 1: a perfect reaching pass breakup on Kearse
PLAY 2: a heady play to trip Kearse and prevent a long gain
PLAY 3: a perfect laid out pass breakup on the bomb to Kearse down the sideline (Kearse caught the rebound when the safety was late and didn't jumped over instead of playing the ball).
PLAY 4: Game winning interception
In addition to these, NFL FILMS caught him battling Kearse to a standoff in press coverage at the line.
Preceding that, he made enough plays in training camp to make the 53 man roster the deepest secondary in the NFL as an UDRFA. Throughout the season, he made enough plays to consistently make the active game day roster in front of last years starter at CB, Dennard.
The interception to win the SuperBowl was, indeed, a great play, but to suggest that is the some total of his effective play is very wide of the mark.
If he continues on hs current trajectory through the off season and training camp, I think that he will likely nail down a starting CB slot.
I come here to get enlightened by Jo Schmo."That's it"? Way to identify yourself as someone who doesn't have any knowledge of the situation.
My take is that Butler should be converted to safety.
Sounds like the job Arrington did against Hilton when we played the Colts. Is Arrington a #1 or #2 corner? Point I am trying to make is he is an unknown and while there's a good chance he turns into a #1 or #2 corner there's always a good chance he is nothing more then an Arrington if even that. You may have confidence he can cover Brandon Marshall next season, I dont. I haven't seen enough to say that.
there's always a good chance he is nothing more then an Arrington.
Still doesn't address the loss of Revis, Browner. Look I hope he is the next Ty Law. All I am saying is he is an unknown that's it. Obviously a lot of you are encouraged by his play and won't accept the possibility he may not work out. I hope Butler is a star at CB. I am not there yet. I thought Ras I Dowling looked good at the end of his first year, thought he would be one of our top CB based on what I saw. I thought McCourty was the next star at corner for us, he was converted to safety. I will not yet make that assumption yet on Butler past history of this team at that position has taught me that.You mean Butler could become an excellent slot CB and Special Team ace. If so, sign me up!
Still doesn't address the loss of Revis, Browner.
Prior to Talib and Revis , the Patriots gave up a lot of passing yardage. The other teams seemed to gainThat's an incredibly pessimistic view of our defense, Jim. There are a lot of teams that would love to have the 8 guys we currently have on our secondary's roster....and that's just in March.
Besides passing yardage has noting to do with how your defense s doing. You just have to go back to the 2011 D. That was a historically bad defense if you determine it by yardage alone. A secondary so thin Edelman had to play a key role, McCourty was having his worst year as a pro, and Chung was the best player in your secondary. It's no coincidence that it ranked 16th in scoring D, and ended up being the 3rd best D in the playoffs. Our front 7 and back 4 are infinitely better now. There is no need to be so pessimistic
From your display, you could apparently take a stroll and be enlightened by a sidewalk. Excuse me if I don't take educating you on football as a complement.I come here to get enlightened by Jo Schmo.
I must be missing the smiley face! From the four plays he made in the SuperBowl, Butler appears to have a knack for breaking up passes in man coverage. Why would you move him to safety?
Amazon has the Blu-Ray for under $20 bucks. It has NFL FILMS slo-mo of three of Butler's plays (they don't have the trip that he got away with - the fourth outstanding play). Convert him to safety? Why?
I was going to post the same thing. Many people thought Brady was a fluke at first too.
Good players have a funny way of making their own "luck".
I used to call those fans Bledsholes.
PLAY 2: a heady play to trip Kearse and prevent a long gain