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Was Losing Godfrey The Biggest Step In Turning The Defense Around?

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rainwater Newbie

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Honestly the secondary just hasn't been exposed much because of the improved play of the front 7.  Losing Godfrey certainly hasn't made the defense better.  I think upcoming games against the Patriots and Saints will show if the secondary has really improved.

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Hate to kick a guy when he's down, but it did seem to be addition by subtraction.

 

I pulled for Godfrey for a while, but he was never reliable, and I think one of the poorest tacklers we've ever trotted out at the safety position. I think he very well may have helicoptered around his last running back in a Panthers uniform.

 

We aren't giving up big plays. If plays get to the second level, they end there. With Godfrey back there, many a 10 yard run turned into a 48 yard dash.

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Godfrey was playing ok when he went out.   The play he actually got hurt on prevented the touchdown.  I think the better secondary play coincided with playing different corner backs.   It seems like we play better when anyone not named Josh is in the secondary.

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I have to clarify that the biggest step in turning the defense around was actually keeping Sione Fua's snaps down but Godfrey was consistently the worst safety for years and it seems as if the entire time Hurney shoehorned him to be the de facto no.1 safety on the team because he was too busy putting effort into signing 800 running backs to contracts always hoping that at some point he'd settle in, which he never did and if you choose to completely disregard PFF's bad reviews of his play every single year then you are most likely either a retard or somehow share the same bloodlines as him

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