I'm still confused

[KillaCamNewton]

We have Luke Kuechly, Thomas Davis, and Shaq Thompson; arguably 3 of the best athletes at the linebacker position in the league...so why on earth was Roman Harper of all people matched up with Jimmy Graham of all people for the entire game??? If we had anyone else on Graham, the Seahawks struggle to get to 14 points. At the very least Tre Boston should be in for Harper on long passing downs

[Guild]

I haven't watched the All-22 yet but I'm guessing it's because we were often rushing five, needed a LB on the RB, and don't like to split our LBs out wide where Graham was being placed for most of his catches. 

[GhostP.]

Rivera has a record of waiting until halfway in the season until he corrects safety or cornerback play .. Just look at the pervious years when he waited to finally put in Bene and Tre Boston .. Roman harper was murdered last night and he continued to keep him in .. Because of him and some of the drops by Funchess I ran out of beer well before the end of the game.

[L-TownCat]

We took away their strength (running game) and contained the QB with an extra man.  This forced the safety's to take a beating.

[Ricky Spanish]

Rivera has a record of waiting until halfway in the season until he corrects safety or cornerback play .. Just look at the pervious years when he waited to finally put in Bene and Tre Boston .. Roman harper was murdered last night and he continued to keep him in .. Because of him and some of the drops by Funchess I ran out of beer well before the end of the game.

No he doesn't. 

Both Boston and Bene were injured last year which is why they didn't play at all. Rivera is not stubborn about veterans. This narrative has been proven wrong time and time again. 

Harper is the weak link in the secondary and we knew that going in. Boston is a FS and he got beat out by Coleman who has been playing pretty damn well for us this year. When Marlowe or someone else can step up and take the job from Harper, they will. 

Now I have no idea why they stuck Harper on graham, but it's not because there's an all-pro ready this minute to step in that Rivera is too stubborn to play. It's because he is unfortunately the best option at the position for us.