Gifs of Roman Harper Missing Tackles vs the Saints Last Night
 

Roman Harper was obviously a valued and beloved member of the Saints’ locker room, and that’s great, and despite all the images of Roman Harper falling down somebody will probably make a successful case for him to become part of the Saints Hall of Fame one day.

I appreciate you, Roman Harper, but I’m glad the following images are of you missing tackles against the Saints and not for them.

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The Graham play was just embarrassing.
After the whiff he does kind of a half-turn swat motion, like he is knocking away mosquitoes.

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I love how we abused the entire Carolina defense last night, but the focus is on 1 guy who played better than most Saints fans thought he would.

He was supposed to be constantly exposed in coverage, but really wasn't at all.

The Harper hate sounds petty and ignorant to me.

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Apparently Harper was a stand up guy, so I can't get any SchadenFreude about an article dedicated to calling him out. But that is the league and the media for you...

Nice moves by our boys though in those plays. Good stuff.

Shame they didint make one on the whole Panther team, or maybe just Cam.

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Harper was the one dude that actually helped the young guys in the Saints secondary & with Jimmy Graham. Harper was and still is a true professional. Harper came in as a rookie in 2006 and started right away, and was also a starter for our 2009 Super Bowl-winning team.

The whole Carolina defense missed tackles and blew coverages all night. No need to single out Harper for his miscues last night. He moved on, we moved on...really no need to celebrate his mistakes.

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Amen Barry.

Speaking of moving on, San Fran is up next ...

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Lol @ this thread. I don't hate Harper but I do find it a little funny. He does play for a division rival now after all. At the end of the day dude isn't going to cry because he whiffed on some tackles. It happens.

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Clearly we need this, right here, right now!

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That's seriously a lot of missed tackles!

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Seen Kenny Vaccaro play this year?

Look up Missed Tackles and its got Vaccaro's picture next to it.

Sorry, Kenny is just a younger version of Harper, but doesn't tackle as well.

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Can we just leave Harper alone please? From virtually all accounts he is a good man. His head is screwed on straight. Even with all the armchair qbs ranting the man stayed classy.

Enough already. Why not pick on some jerk...maybe somebody who can't get over being "disrespected"?

Pick another target. Jeesh.

:brood:

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If it was malcolm jenkins that had a bad game against us, I'd have no problem laughing at him

But Harper was and still is a stand up guy and a huge part of our history, he's never wronged or said anything bad about us

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I blame Reggie Bush and all the Billy Joe's!

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I think the reason it seems I defend Harper more than most ex-Saints is because he was way too often blamed for losses when any fan with an IQ over 12 could see the loss wasn't even close to his fault.

He became the scapegoat for the dumb masses. It wasn't uncommon to hear him blamed for plays when he wasn't even on the goddam field.

It just goes to show that we have just as many dumbass fans as every other team does, and its why I just roll my eyes when someone says our fans are better than other teams fans. We're just get louder and drunker than most.

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Definitely, every player has bad games from time to time but the minute harper allowed a first down he's had fans screaming for him to be cut.

He's made so many more great plays for us than bad ones and a guy in his situation could have said "you know what, screw the saints" and gone out to the media and blurted out trash.

But Roman Harper is not that guy, which is why he deserves respect.

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That is the hardest I've laughed in quite a while. Thanks!

I love the "Battle of New Orleans" reference. LOL!!!

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I am glad he didn't play against us like Fujita did when he left the Saints!

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All of those gifs and they didn't have the one with him knocking out his own player?

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You Harper defenders have to be kidding me. That guy lost us SO MANY games. He cant cover biscuits with gravy. Look at any Carolina game and watch the way he gets abused. The Jimmy Graham catch to put the game away, who was supposed to help that corner for the deep release you guessed it HARPER, he was EPIC in GW's system and thats because Gregg made him a hybrid linebacker. His productivity after that was trash. We've had great safeties (Sharper, Knight) and Harper is not considered one of them.

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Wow...the "one-guy-can-lose-a-game-all-by-himself" logic.

22 players, a head coach, a defensive coordinator, a spec teams coordinator, an offensive coordinator, a kicker...but one player all by himself can lose us "so many games'. I'll give you that he may have blown a coverage or missed a tackle that led to losing a game, but a team wins & a team loses collectively.

But if you say so, man.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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A FinSaint?

Salute!

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

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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.

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It really was, lmao

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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.

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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.

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That many fans can be wrong. I'm not complaining by any stretch, but putting that all on Harper is ridiculous. You could single out the other missed tackles, a blown coverage, and CAR folks not getting off of blocks all over the place.

If they wanted to win that game, their scapegoat should be their offense. Zero points off of 2 consecutive turnovers to start a game is Gawd-awful & terrible.

Score 10 points in a game with the Saints, you are gonna lose. You complete 10 passes, turn it over twice, and have 231 yards of offense, more than likely you are gonna lose to anybody in the NFL.

Misplaced anger by Pantie fans. But they can blame Harper all they want...they really should keep Scam running that offense.

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I find it hard to believe that fans from two different teams are all biased against Harper, do you know how silly that sounds, not to mention improbable?

They didn't put the loss on Harper, what do you mean? I said they just questioned the point of keeping him or starting him due to the missed tackles and getting burnt.

The fans didn't blame him for the loss, they were speaking about him missing tackles and getting burnt (not just that game too).

I don't know why you keep saying about why they loss, they did not blame him for the loss.

When I said you can't blame one player for a loss that was a reply to you having made that comment previously. What the fans said about Harper, and that comment, were not related.

Holy ****, they didn't blame him for losing, they were merely pointing out frustration with his game this season.

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spkb...you're right. I misread it. My bad. Thought they placed the loss on Harper, so I misread that.

In fairness to Harper, I see plenty of Strong Safeties week-to-week miss tackles and get blown up in coverage just like the original link posted on here.

Harper ain't the best, but he ain't the worst, either.

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No, absolutely not. I agree, man he made a lot of really good plays for us. He is not a bad guy by any means, and I have nothing against him. I have seen KV missing a lot of tackles this season. Harp's a professional and I remember a lot of blitzes where he sacked the QB or came up and stuffed the run.

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It's really tough to find a strong safety that has great coverage skills plus are a great run support asset. Usually we see Strong Safeties good at run support but weak in pass coverage and vice versa. The great strong safeties can do both, and do them very well.

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I can tell you pretty simply why he's being singled out. Because unlike any other Carolina defender on that roster, Harper is a former Saint, and he's a guy a lot of "wise" people tried to act like we would miss. That somehow he would haunt us. And that idea was shown to be foolish. It's nothing personal against Harper, but he plays for the other side now and I have no sympathy for that reason. He's not that good of a player. He's a role player who people keep trying to make a starter.

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Panthers fans and Who Dats both agree that man is terrible in coverage....Sometimes it hard to believe how many fans here thought he was worth keeping....we all have opinions but can someone PLEASE throw 3 consecutive seasons of positive stats in here because I really don't see where he was good besides Gregg's first year as DC

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my money was well spent i see

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Honestly, at least from a tackles standpoint he was consistent 07-12. And he had the 7.5 sacks in 2011.

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One of the hardest things to do is tackle a guy running straight at you in the open field. If that guy happens to be a good enough athlete to make it to the NFL he's not supposed to get tackled in that situation. Granted some guys are better at it than others but most are going to whiff as often as not.