Quote:he didnt like the Cyp, Gratz,Ace, i dont remember him liking any of the picks

 

 

Cyprien rookie year he started played in 15 games and started them all. Polamalu in his rookie year player 16 games and started none.

 

In Polamalu's first year as the starter he totaled 96 tackles ,  1 sack , 10 Pds and 5 Ints and one FF on a consistently successfull steelers team who have had a loaded defensive roster for years and at that time had one of the more feared LB groups in front of him full of pass rushers and studs.

 

Cyp totaled 104 tackles , 1 sack , 5 PDs and 1 Int  and 2 FFs on one of the worst rosters assembled in this teams history . Teams were killing us early and then just running the ball taking away from pass play chances for Cyp. Yes part of it was him but he was far from the biggest issue on defense.

 

I get the feeling had Polamalu been sitting behind our D-line and supporting cast in the secondary (Which included multiple rookies btw) his numbers would not have looked nearly as good.

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