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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Old news. When your front 7 grades out the worst in the NFL your safeties are gonna struggle. So if you're gonna bash Harper and Jenkins, you have to bash Lofton, Vilma, Greer, Robinson, White, Wilson, Smith, Ellis, and Hawthorne ...
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04-04-2013, 05:04 PM | #11 |
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Re: Worst ever for Jenkins and Harper
Old news. When your front 7 grades out the worst in the NFL your safeties are gonna struggle.
So if you're gonna bash Harper and Jenkins, you have to bash Lofton, Vilma, Greer, Robinson, White, Wilson, Smith, Ellis, and Hawthorne too Pretty much every player that got significant PT last year was turribul, just turribul. Here are all the PFF grades recapped (its a PPV site so no linky and only a recap) PFF rank by position of our defenders. Defensive Ends out of 109 Jordan 66 Smith 108 Galette 19 Wilson 33 DT out of 148 Bunkley 29 Ellis 118 Akiem Hicks 29 Johnson 42 Outside Linebackers Out of 109 Vilma 100 Hawthorne 102 Casillas 59 Wilson 81 Herring 87 Shanle 95 Inside linebackers out of 112 Lofton 104 Wilson (1 snap) 43 CB's out of 217 Greer 113 Robinson 193 Mack 72 White 203 Patrick 205 Murphy 70 Safeties out of 168 Harper 167 Jenkins 168 Bush 22 Abdul- Quddus 57 |
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Re: Worst ever for Jenkins and Harper
Oh I'm still p****d at Loomis for keeping Smith around, I don't care how cheap this year
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Re: Worst ever for Jenkins and Harper
I wonder if PFF has ever graded out two starters at any one position, from the same team, as the worst in the NFL before Jenkins and Harper.
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Originally Posted by Utah_Saint
I doubt it. There never been a defense this bad from front to back in recent years.
And in order for a unit to be that awful, the rest of the defense has to pitch in. When I see so many players grading near dead last who were good players in previous years it just confirms to me that it was 90% Spags and his square peg round hole schemes. |
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The first person remembered is the last one that failed.
Safety's are the last ones to miss a tackle, but no where near the first. |
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I'm not really out to insult anyone, but I'm really curious as to the criterion used in this "grading" process. As OAK has already pointed out, there are some glaring deficiencies in this rating system.
It's easy to find sports hacks out there that write something a posters agree with. It's easy to accept something as fact if that opinion is the same as the poster's. As I look at the credentials of the authors of the referenced articles, I see very little in the way of actual upper level coaching and playing experience. "Fan" seems to be at the top of the resumes and as such, that makes OAK and me equal to the authors of the referenced articles in our level of expertise. So again I ask, how do Jenkins and Harper grade out with the real experts -our current coaches? |
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Originally Posted by Seer1
Apparently better than our CB's.
And as others have pointed out, in a zone heavy scheme how does a grader know who's fault a completion is when its between the LB and Safety or the CB and Safety? Does Bush get credit for a pick that was a horrible throw when he was 10 yards away from the intended WR? Or does that count against him as it should? |
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Re: Worst ever for Jenkins and Harper
Our defense will go way up this season. I predict we will finish somewhere in the 13th to 19th range, which isn't bad considering if we had that type of defense last year, we could have easily gone 10-6 or even 11-5 or better. The main difference could be that players simply love working with Rob Ryan and they obviously didn't enjoy working for Steve Spagnuolo. Keenan Lewis will immediately make the secondary better but we still need more help in the secondary.
Personally I hope Charles Casserly is correct when he says that Nnamdi Asomugha "can't run anymore." I hope that's right. I wish we could grab Antoine Winfield but only for the right price and if he still has some gas left in the tank after playing in the league for what seems like a thousand years. |
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Re: Worst ever for Jenkins and Harper
HARPER WILL NOT START!! Roman Harper's days as a starter are over, he if still on the team will be a situational blitzer at best that's his only attribute that isn't flawed and it wasn't there last yr even when Spgs blitzed him!
NOW FOR JENKINS, He had to cover two spots making up for Harper's lack of mobility or because Patrick Robinson blows an assignment! There was chaos in that secondary all Spotlighted by the SAFETY ROMAN HARPER! |
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