Corn Elder

[therealmjl]

I know we are completely devoid of any real top end talent in the secondary but curious to know why Corn Elder continues to make this team?

I thought it was a Ron thing but low and behold he is still around.

[Jeremy Igo]

He is a decent backup nickel. Fans rag on him for his performance on the outside, but he should have never been there to begin with.

[LinvilleGorge]

If we go into the season with this secondary in our division, teams are going to be putting up video game scores on us. Which is okay by me to be honest. I was never under the delusion that we have anything other than draft position to play for this season.

[cmichd]

1 hour ago, bull123 said:

Yes....but our run defense is going to be horrid as well...our LB could be worst in the league

I believe it will be a complete team effort on how bad our defense will be.  We will have some bright spots but our CB's will get killed by the top rated QB's.  Against the lower rank teams we might hold our own and even have bright spots that will raise hopes, but we will make mistakes that will cost us games.

[Moo Daeng]

They will be better than last year. Yall just like to parrot yourselves in every post you make.

[Panthera onca]

Corn will likely get shucked when we sign a street free agent nickel.

[cmichd]

20 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

They will be better than last year. Yall just like to parrot yourselves in every post you make.

The only difference is the age factor and dollar they make.  Young players make mistakes and I am sorry I just don't have a level of confidence that Shaq will be the leader that Luke was.  We will see what happens but I don't worry about the offense.  Can the defense keep us in games is my questionable concern.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

31 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

They will be better than last year. Yall just like to parrot yourselves in every post you make.

We were middle of the pack or better in virtually every passing defense category last year. I honestly don't see this secondary doing better than that, especially since we lost by far our best DB from last season.

[1of10Charnatives]

54 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We were middle of the pack or better in virtually every passing defense category last year. I honestly don't see this secondary doing better than that, especially since we lost by far our best DB from last season.

To be fair I think a strong argument can be made that a lot of teams don't throw the ball a ton when it's easy to hand off to your rb for 8 yards a pop.  Being awful against the run tends to make your secondary look better on paper than perhaps it really is.

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

To be fair I think a strong argument can be made that a lot of teams don't throw the ball a ton when it's easy to hand off to your rb for 8 yards a pop.  Being awful against the run tends to make your secondary look better on paper than perhaps it really is.

We were above middle of the pack in average net yards per attempt. We were among the league leaders in INTs. 

The run D was absolutely abysmal, but for the most part the secondary wasn't.

We were tied for 20th in the league in terms of pass attempts against us. I was honestly surprised we weren't a lot lower considering you could just line up and run it down our throats at will... and mike and sam for that matter 

[therealmjl]

1 hour ago, Moo Daeng said:

They will be better than last year. Yall just like to parrot yourselves in every post you make.

In what way could they possibly be better? Even tho we sucked last year- we have 0 talent in the secondary and lost luke and our LB corps is awful. DL is wash at best...we lost proven guys like Addison, McCoy, Poe.

[run-run-pass-punt]

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If we go into the season with this secondary in our division, teams are going to be putting up video game scores on us. Which is okay by me to be honest. I was never under the delusion that we have anything other than draft position to play for this season.

Man, I really wish the NFL would adopt promotion/relegation tiered league format so that all the fans who want to "play for draft position" can just watch the team get demoted. Here's your reward for sucking. ;)

[WarPanthers89]

I wish we would have signed Bradberry this offseason. The contract that he signed with the Giants was not that bad. We would be in much better shape right now in the secondary 

[Moo Daeng]

There needs to be Losers and Suckers forum for those who cant post without some sort of whining preface about expecting to lose and how bad we will be. By now we fuging get it. 

If its Tourettes then I apologize but move on if not.