Da Fuk
Yall cats kill me with your comparisons. They play 2 different positions and have 2 different roles on there teams. Do yall know the difference between a Hybrid 3-4's free safety and a Zone Blitzing 3-4's Strong Safety. I'll make it easy for you, its kinda obvious. If you watch film, or Ed Reeds highlights, you'll notice 90% of his interceptions were a product of him being in the right place at the right time(yes its an amazing skillset). Why, because he plays a more central defending back free safety role. You rarely see him in the box & he spends majority of his time in defensive pass coverage. Troy on the other-hand is a boxed strong safety who's a freelance zone blitzer. He rarely plays in the middle of the field. I see people are talking about coverage. Troy spends more time man on man than Ed does, you are basing coverage off of Ed's interception highlights which is sad. Troy is one helluva man defender. Where he gets caught up is his freelancing. Think about it as a qb spy position in madden, he has no true role but to stop the play. The job of the opposing team is to figure out where troy is pre snap and to manipulate where he will go or to know where he will end up. Troy guesses wayy more than Ed which puts him in bad situations. Every Troy failure is a highlight for the opposing team.
Ed is honestly the best free safety of all time. I have never seen a player play into the role of his position so well. He symbolizes what a free safety's role is.
Troy is the most talented Strong Safety we have ever had. No strong safety has ever combined his sheer instinct, coverage(ability to cover 2/3's of the field), & run support. When he isn't playing the Steelers defense struggles. What makes the steelers defense go is the fact that they can rush 6 defenders consistently while having troy make up for the lack of pass defenders. Although majority of the dominant safetys have been SS's rather than FS's over time, when all is said and done he should be considered the best at his position of all time.
Yall are witnessing history and dont even know it.
Comparing SS's and FS's is like comparing Punters and Kickers, 2 different jobs but yet they essentially are the same thing. You can compare them, I wont.
Its a shame that Troy has been 
since losing to the Pack's in the Super Bowl in 2011. I honestly thought that he had what it took to be the best safety ever imo. Even as good and potentially as better than Reed & Lott. Even though he played strong safety and Ed played free safety, Ed has had the better career, but if I was a WR, Troy might be the scariest safety ever. Even though he was small, his strength and speed was just 
Definitely a HOF for sure.
