Quote:lol why do you keep bringing up tackles?

 

We know he makes a ton of tackles.  Tackles don't mean anything.

 

Wali Rainer made a ton of tackles as a LB for us one year - it doesn't mean he was good or that he was doing his job very well.

 

He was gone the following year.

 

Cyprien needs to make impact plays and cut down on the missed tackles as well as cut down on the blown coverages.  If he doesn't, then we still haven't upgraded our safety position from the time we had Dawan Landry.

 

 

The whole point of letting Landry go was to upgrade the position.  2 years later, Landry is still better than anything we have at safety, which is sad because he's average at best.

I wasn't making the point he was a good SS. Or that he was good in coverage or that he was even a spectacular tackler. My point was that a particular play was brought up as being his fault, and really it was the Linebacker's fault.  I agree Landry was better. Despite what some folks claim with teen cartoons I have no man crush on Cyprien, but for God's sake criticize him when warranted, not on a running play up the middle where the linebackers were breathed upon and folded.

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