Quote:Reggie Nelson's departure was celebrated by the crux of the message board, and we laughed at those silly Bengal for picking him up.


He was Reggie freaking Nelson...

This is close to how I remember it. I, for one, thought he was playing better towards the end here. But he had such a huge knack for taking terrible angles and missing game changing tackles at the end of games that it seemed like a foregone conclusion that he was done here. I remember a game he did for us against the colts in 2010, I believe, when we had like 8 wins and would have the division if we won. Reggie took a bad angle on a long completion, missed a tackle allowing the TD and a loss. We had been on a winning streak before that with many people picking us to win the game. It became very hard to defend him after gamechanging plays like that. I think there was a portion of the board that thought he was getting better, but no one thought he was good enough.

 

Its also true the majority of the board wanted him gone, several of whom are above claiming they didn't (good thing the old boards gone, so no one can check you). No one was thrilled with getting David Cox for him, we all wondered about the pick (which became nothing). And ever since leaving us Nelson suddenly played better, finished tackles, and continued getting TO's (which he did for us as well). His was almost certainly a coaching/scheme issue (and I like JDR, but this one has to be on him/the staff).

 

Either way, when he left it was a foregone conclusion that he wasn't who we needed him to be. He had been here 4 years and just hadn't turned the corner. Even me (who liked him), couldn't say much when we traded him, it was obvious that he had blown one too many coverages/been burned for one too many TD's.

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