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Bonecrusher Pollard, Wrecker of Patriots
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01-22-2013, 04:11 PM | #91 |
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Who doesn't miss tackles or give up touchdowns now. So other than the fact that he doesn't ****ing suck at league-worst levels, he's similar! The ****.
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Here we go. Same shit every time someone gets clowned.
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Look at Berry - that's exactly the kind of smart, athletic, physical safety that could have played alongside Pollard, covered ground and left Pollard in a perfect position to go out there and reek havoc over the middle. It would've been an absolutely ideal duo in our defensive backfield. Instead we've spent 2 seasons with the glass jaw of Kendrick Lewis and his random replacements out there. Pollard's a guy that plays an important role on most good defenses. And he'd have easily been able to play that role here.
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I don't think he would have.
It took a change of scenery for the guy to wake up the **** up and improve. (Plus better coaching/team environment) That's what happened. He was NEVER this good in KC, EVER.
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It's a valuable tool, no question. And as Ozzie Newsome knew when he decided to give Pollard $12 million, it's not dispositive.
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He was never a veteran with 6 years of starting experience, 4 years of good coaching and an organization that believed in him in KC. Funny thing - players tend to get better when you add all those things together. There's no reason he couldn't have been all those things in Kansas City. This again goes back to the fact that ***** was a shitty General Manager that installed a shitty coaching staff and did a shitty job of identifying talent that was worth coaching up (Pollard) and talent that wasn't (Jackson).
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He's still a guy that will lose his responsibilities in coverage and go for a knockout blow instead of the 'sound' tackle quite often. He's the same type of player he's always been. He's just better at it. Age, experience and coaching will do that for you. I said this 3 years ago - your position is an unassailable one. If he had stayed awful, you could say you were right because he was awful. Had he become good, you could say he just needed 'a wakeup call'. In essence, you've just taken the position that no matter what happens, you were right. Bullshit - Bernard Pollard could have been and should have been all those things in Kansas City but Pioli is a goddamn moron and never gave him that chance.
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I wouldn't have given him another chance, either. He's not the same play he was at all. I mean, he went from a guy who was a complete liability to a guy who didn't allow a single TD this year. That's not even close. Pioli ****ed up a lot of things but lots of GMs would have cut Bernard Pollard. He was basically the black Sabby Piscitelli.
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He had started 31 games in his career at that point. And he was getting worse, not better. Safety isn't WR or QB. It's one of the most "Ready-to-play" positions in football for young starters. Come on, man.
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This is what you're using now? He got a 3 million dollar signing bonus, whooptie do. Chump change for a guy who needed to prove a lot.
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In fact, you wanna hear something awesome? Before last week, Pollard had played two completely garbage playoff games. But he makes a couple of nice hits and all his ballwashers from 4 years ago come out of the woodwork to cry. Par for the course.
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Pollard gets a lot of crap in KC, but the guy has turned out to be fantastic value from a second round pick. 7 seasons, most of them starting. Good enough to start on defense for the best defense in the league. This just illustrates how the Chiefs used to be able to evaluate talent, especially on defense. We must get back to that
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Baltimore was 17th in yards and 12th in pts.
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