westbankdaze

It is fair game to pick on Harper. Players who move to division rivals always have it out for their old team. Sorry but dropping Harper was what so many folks wanted to happen and others who opposed vehemently will never admit they were wrong. I find it quite poetic justice for the people who wanted Harper out.

Lol at this thread. Made my day.

Jack Vegas

Have never understood the hate for Harper. Picking on Harper for his weaknesses is like picking on Brees for his height. We know his limitations. He's very good at the things he does well. Personally I wish we had kept him because he was very good last year in a smaller role. It's better than watching Bush and Vaccaro continually taking bad angles to the ball and better than Byrd's nonexistent play before he went on IR.

FinSaint

A Finnish pop song from the 60s..?!

FinSaint

I wish there was a way to "unlike" a post... 'cos I would unlike this post so hard it would be begging for me to stop.

jeanpierre

I find they're are three types of opinion of Harper...

1) Good Saints fans that appreciated his effort and were willing to overlooked he often sucked balls when his assignment was anything other than blitzing a quarterback and was overpaid for that one ablity during his tenure...

2) Crimson-bleeding Homers that are incapable of admitting they're wrong about anything due to a dysfunctional personality and insecurity complex probably having something to do with compromised water sources and restricted gene pools...

3) Football fans that recognize Harper has less coordination and rhythm than a really white Canadian and probably wore cement shoes for cleats and couldn't last a day in a Geometry class because of his complete failure to grasp angles...

But we're hey, we're All Saints Fans, no one fan loving his/her team more than the other, just in their own, special way...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

Exxcalibur

A FinSaint?

Salute!

When isn't it the perfect time for a Finnish pop song form the 60s?

Barry from MS

We all knew Harper was not brought in for his coverage & ball skills. It was blatantly obvious with his body of work since being drafted by the Saints in the 2nd Rd in 2006 until he left after 2013. He was brought here in 2006 to because he's pretty darn good in run support.

In the NFC South in 2005, TB had a run-heavy offense. CAR had a run-heavy offense. ATL had a very run-heavy offense.

See the trend? Roman Harper was brought here to help shut that down, not to be a lock-down coverage safety. We knew his limitations in the passing game, but we did have some DC's that tried to fit a round peg in a triangle hole with him. His best years were when DC's played to Harper's strengths by playing him up around the line and blitzing. His worst years were when DC's thought it was simply a brilliant idea to have Harper cover WRs, faster RBs & faster TE's deep...which was simply brilliantly stoopid.

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day" ~ Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
"Honor: if you need it defined, you don't have it" ~ Ron Swanson

spkb25

It really was, lmao

spkb25

One player cannot lose a game, I agree, but I just saw some Panther's fans questions and apparently they're saying the same thing we did. It was something like why do we keep him in there when he won't tackle or can't and gets burtn in coverage. Look that many fans can't be wrong. I like Harper, he gave us his best years and made some really good plays for us. He is a stand up guy, but I was glad to see him in the panties uni instead of ours.

Foot Stomper

For such a nice guy and a pretty dang good talent he catches a lot of flack. Carolina hates him for hitting Steve Smith after the whistle the one time. Now most of you make fun of him. From all indications he was very well liked on this team which seems plausible based on Drew and him chatting after the game. I agree...pick on one of the many jerks in the league.