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These safeties taking bad angles has nothing to do with the rules brehs......
Why is the play of defensive backs so awful in today's NFL?
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Charlie Broadway
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Oh and as for the topic others have already talked about the rule changes. Only thing I'll add is that cornerback is probably the second most difficult position to play on the field behind quarterback and I'd actually say it's flat out the most difficult to play in terms of purely athleticism. This was true before the rules changed so imagine how much more difficult it is. Nowadays your safeties have to have cb-like coverage skills also with all of the spread offenses. Generally speaking this compromises the tackling ability on your back end as opposed to larger safeties back in the day. DBs' mistakes are also magnified. A qb can throw an incompletion, a rb can pick the wrong hole, a wr can drop a pass, a lber can miss a tackle. When a db falls down or busts coverage it is over.
As far as which angles to take, guys have always taken bad angles. It's part of the game. You know how fast you are and you think you have an accurate gauge on fast the ballcarrier is but you really don't. It happens. Same when it comes to choosing the correct angle on covering a deep ball.
As far as which angles to take, guys have always taken bad angles. It's part of the game. You know how fast you are and you think you have an accurate gauge on fast the ballcarrier is but you really don't. It happens. Same when it comes to choosing the correct angle on covering a deep ball.
db gotta be one of the toughest positions to play in football. The rules do not help them. They can't get physical with receivers or even really breathe on them. I really hate the PI rule. Needs to be changed.
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Many of these DBS aren't smart. Watching Revis sort of spoils a niqqa into seeing how to play the position right. When these dudes have a receiver pressed to them along the sideline, they still face the receiver rather than keeping them on their back and looking back at the qb knowing that the sideline is their friend and that the only way a receiver could come back to the ball is going through you.
Other times, dudes bail out too soon and honestly, many of these guys aren't athletic enough to play the position to go along without thinking out there. To be a db, you have to be qb, knowing the down and distance, where you are on the field and who you're defending.
A lot of dudes go into playing db reacting rather than thinking. Asante Samuels may not be the greatest one on one cover man, but there spare some decisions that he makes on the field that is pure brilliance.
Other times, dudes bail out too soon and honestly, many of these guys aren't athletic enough to play the position to go along without thinking out there. To be a db, you have to be qb, knowing the down and distance, where you are on the field and who you're defending.
A lot of dudes go into playing db reacting rather than thinking. Asante Samuels may not be the greatest one on one cover man, but there spare some decisions that he makes on the field that is pure brilliance.
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