He can't cover so are you looking at running plays?
Who's spot would he take?
Obvious passing downs. Big Nickel.
Surely not Gregory's who is playing quite well by all accounts,
Not
all accounts. If "he doesn't suck quite as bad as he did last year" is your threshold, then he's cleared it.
ROFL BB...Everyone's a superstar to BB.
Would he come in for a LB or a CB in a big nickel?
A linebacker. Spikes, Hightower, any of the LBs really, since none of them can cover.
Then you're choosing to be willfully blind. So be it.
I wouldn't sub him for H'tower, Spikes or Collins.
I know. No one can shut down receivers quite like those 3. On 3rd and 16 is when Hightower really turns it on.
I like Dennard, Talib, Arrington and Ryan in coverage far more than Reed.
Well, they're all corners, so...and I'd rather have Reed on one leg covering than Arrington covering (To be fair, it should really ready "covering", because he's usually not even near the guy. Which wouldn't be so bad if Gregory weren't busy blowing coverages and leaving his CBs out to dry)
anyone these days, and I'm as big an Arrington apologist as there is.
We already have 1 ceremonial graybeard S on the shelf (Adrian Wilson); we don't need another one.
You have a serious issue developing with the absence of Mayo and Wilfork. The middle is soft as tissue paper, and every team knows it. Patriots have to drop a safety into the box to stop the run, leaving them vulnerable to the pass.
Which, has been made blatantly apparent the last couple of weeks. Thankfully, there's a pass rush to cover some of that these days; but they're giving up 3rd and 8+ again with alarming regularity. I thought those days were behind us.
I'm not (and haven't been) saying bring Ed Reed here to start. He comes in on 2nd and 25, 3rd and 18 so, you know, they don't get torched on it because Gregory decides to cover the wrong guy or whatever.
Would still like to know how he would have went from 28 td's in 2005 to 54 with more snaps.....how many would he have needed like 300?
