Donte Most Improved Player?

[Mage]

12 minutes ago, SetfreexX said:

Donte' was coming up in run support as a rookie, go back and look, his issue was consistency. 

Yea, Donte's always been extremely willing in run support.  Not sure why there is a narrative that he wasn't.  

Donte's problem was consistency, like you said, and always trying to gamble.  

I think we are going to fight hard to keep him.  Rhule seems to love the guy.

[CRA]

1 minute ago, Mage said:

Yea, Donte's always been extremely willing in run support.  Not sure why there is a narrative that he wasn't.  

Donte's problem was consistency, like you said, and always trying to gamble.  

I think we are going to fight hard to keep him.  Rhule seems to love the guy.

I think his tackling has gotten better.   But yeah, he always flown up quick in run support.   He has never been shy about throwing his body around to make tackles.  

[NorthTryon]

I would say Shaq too for most improved. He went form being almost lost at times to super consistent and sometimes dominant.

Dante was just an arrogant kid who wanted to gamble and consistently ended up out of position. He's come around on that and plays where he put. And wow on the run support as he not only is he tackling, but he's popping pads! Now that he has settled and operating within this system he looks payable especially if this will be the system going forward.

[Car123]

Donte had a good year last year

[L-TownCat]

2 hours ago, gofightwin said:

Say what now?

It’s a bit of a reach but not a huge one.  The difference in Shaq this year from all previous ones is stark.

Edited November 18, 2021 by L-TownCat

[Waldo]

26 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

It’s a bit of a reach but not a huge one.  The difference in Shaq this year from all previous ones is stark.

He is a top 5 non-edge LBer this year vs being pretty average before. 

[portcity]

Donte has grown into his potential which has been great to watch. He's come up clutch and I can't really remember any plays this year watching him where I'm wondering what he was doing or why he gambled wrong. Huge improvement from last year to this year. Don't think we will be able to retain him at the price he will want as a number 1 corner unfortunately. 

Shaqs improvement was just as big but will be overshadowed because he's grown I to his contract. His coverage reminds me of TD. He doesn't have the energy TD had but I see a ton of similarities in their game. 

[Pantherxtreme]

3 hours ago, trueblade said:

I'm just a little hesitant on a player who seems to have really turned it on in a contract year.

The flipside of that argument is that the Cardinals pretty much said the same thing about Haasan Reddick, and we see how that turned out. 

[Donald LaFell]

3 hours ago, SetfreexX said:

Donte' was coming up in run support as a rookie, go back and look, his issue was consistency. 

THIS THIS THIS

so tired of hearing that, he’s flashed since his rookie year especially in run support. Most of his issues were getting beat deep or missing open field tackles sometimes. 

[trueblade]

Just now, Pantherxtreme said:

The flipside of that argument is that the Cardinals pretty much said the same thing about Haasan Reddick, and we see how that turned out. 

[NorthTryon]

37 minutes ago, Pantherxtreme said:

The flipside of that argument is that the Cardinals pretty much said the same thing about Haasan Reddick, and we see how that turned out. 

He has turned out to be a beast!

[BrianS]

3 hours ago, Tbe said:

Donte is the textbook definition of a player that will disappear once he gets a contract.

I can’t think of anyone else is recent memory that has this many red flags.

Really?  I can:

Dude got 11 per season.  He's now been injured all year.  VERY glad we aren't the ones paying for that.

On Donte, I like him as a player, but how do you write a contract for him that incentivizes this level of commitment?  Because before this year, I wasn't at all sold on him.  I hate players that don't do anything until that contract year.

[Tbe]

6 hours ago, BrianS said:

Really?  I can:

Dude got 11 per season.  He's now been injured all year.  VERY glad we aren't the ones paying for that.

On Donte, I like him as a player, but how do you write a contract for him that incentivizes this level of commitment?  Because before this year, I wasn't at all sold on him.  I hate players that don't do anything until that contract year.

Curtis never struck me as a guy that would slack off as soon as he got a contract.

Dante is 100% that guy.

[cardiackat88.]

4 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Curtis never struck me as a guy that would slack off as soon as he got a contract.

Dante is 100% that guy.

Me either, but my gut feeling told me he would constantly be on the bench out of injury.