Quote:What I respect about him, and probably what's kept him around, is that he always seems to be working hard.

 

He gets flattened, and he gets back up and gives 110% on the next play.

 

If we were down big and the rest of the team was giving their half effort, he was still giving 110%.  Every play.

 

He's also played hurt, where some folks can't seem to stay on the field.

 

Complain about the pick all you want, I get it.  Regardless, the player still earns my respect.

Agreed 100%.

 

Alualu gets a whole lot of dumb hate around here, simply because of where he was drafted. Was he over drafted? Yes he probably was, but we'll never know what kind of player he actually could have been after that knee injury his rookie year.

 

Like you said, the guy played on a bum knee basically his entire first 2 seasons. I might be wrong, but didn't he get micro fracture surgery after his 2nd season?

 

I know he had some sort of knee surgery (I'm pretty sure it was a microfracture, but I'm too lazy to look it up to make sure), yet hes still never missed a game in his entire NFL career.

 

Add that onto the lack of talent he had around him, before the new front office came aboard and rebuilt. Also add in the position hes played over the past couple of seasons. The Big End which isn't a sexy number popping position regardless.

 

Alualu is a pros pro, to the fullest extent. I guarantee you he's very well respected among a whole lot of people/players in the NFL. He is what at least 80% of the NFL is made up of. The guys who aren't the super stars, they aren't in the lime light and they don't make the record breaking contract $$. Yet they never complain about what their role is. They'll do whatever they're told to do and they'll do it at an absolute 100+%, every single chance they get.

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