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CRA Grand Master

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Just now, Harbingers said:

Ya he secured it and was going for extra yardage. My point is going into that scrum he didn’t get his upper body and head low enough not to leave that huge hole for the peanut punch. But you can damn sure well expect him to be working anti-punch drills for the next few weeks. 

No doubt he could of done better w/ his technique.  He is young.  A learning experience.  

I just think it is one of those plays where it was really just more of a great defensive play than anything.   They happen.  I mean sometimes a DB has legit perfect coverage on a play....and a QB puts a ball somewhere special and the WR does something special.  Stuff happens.  

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5 minutes ago, CRA said:

No doubt he could of done better w/ his technique.  He is young.  A learning experience.  

I just think it is one of those plays where it was really just more of a great defensive play than anything. 

"The other guys get paid to make plays too"

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2 hours ago, ImaginaryKev said:

Also, Shaq (like Thomas Davis) apparently has figured it after a relatively slow start to his career bc he looked like the perfect modern day LB he was drafted to be yesterday. I remember lots of folks were down on TD and considered him average til we changed our Defense and started using him like Derrick Brooks a couple years into his career. 

Sometimes you need a contract year to get a few first round talents to play up to their potential. That's life. 

Yeah that's a piece of lore from TD's career that people tend to forget.  I remember people on this site saying that he sucked and was a bust for several years- hard hitter but a liability in pass defense.  He started to show flashes of what he would become in 08 and was having an All Pro type year in 09, but then the ACL saga started.  The TD as we know him emerged in 2012, which was year 8 of his career.

But yeah long story short Shaq looks like a different player at ILB.

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19 minutes ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

Yeah that's a piece of lore from TD's career that people tend to forget.  I remember people on this site saying that he sucked and was a bust for several years- hard hitter but a liability in pass defense.  He started to show flashes of what he would become in 08 and was having an All Pro type year in 09, but then the ACL saga started.  The TD as we know him emerged in 2012, which was year 8 of his career.

But yeah long story short Shaq looks like a different player at ILB.

Not signing him before the season may look worse as the season progresses.  He has looked solid at times over the past 2 years, but he looked like a Pro-Bowler yesterday

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9 minutes ago, archer4364 said:

How is CMC so low lol. That's how you know PFF is some garbage. Bradberry was good but... C'mon man.

The only other non-QB offensive player who has ever had that kind of impact in a game that CMC did yesterday (for the Panthers) was Steve Smith.

On a field with a lot of offensive stars threats on both sides, CMC was the best overall player out there, and the best RB and WR for either team.

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8 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

Not signing him before the season may look worse as the season progresses.  He has looked solid at times over the past 2 years, but he looked like a Pro-Bowler yesterday

Should have, at the very least, tried to get Bradberry under contract, and if that wouldn't go, Shaq.

We did neither.

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57 minutes ago, archer4364 said:

How is CMC so low lol. That's how you know PFF is some garbage. Bradberry was good but... C'mon man.

Its the plays where he wasn't the one with the ball that brought him down. They rate every player on every single play regardless of it they are the target or not. I guess he wasn't an all world blocker or didn't go hard when the plays weren't designed for him. All I know if when my RB has the ball he is a monster so  don't care. 

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56 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

Should have, at the very least, tried to get Bradberry under contract, and if that wouldn't go, Shaq.

We did neither.

Yeah but not making a guy like Bradberry a priority isn't a bad move considering his great play is more "let's wait and see before we pay em" than Shaq 

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I mean I'm happy they're playing well but that's the NFL, you might lose a guy who balls in contract year, esp when they don't look like sure things til that year, even

Worst case scenario you have Shaq's replacement on the team already (Carter) and you picked a good year to draft CBs

That's life in the NFL

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2 hours ago, CRA said:

probably play less snaps.  I mean, it was the plays he didn't touch the ball that brought him down. 

He made a impact on those too, you know creating a diversion that allows others to work. Again PFF should be looked at as a good forum poster. CMC was the best dam player on the field, fug that rating. 

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6 minutes ago, Basbear said:

He made a impact on those too, you know creating a diversion that allows others to work. Again PFF should be looked at as a good forum poster. CMC was the best dam player on the field, fug that rating. 

This is completely irrational, but i appreciate your support for hometown players

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