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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Watch again. He actually made a play on the ball a couple of times, although he did get burnt a couple of times and missed at least one tackle badly. Same stuff you saw week in and week out from Nelson, minus the actually making a play on the ball.
I honestly think some of you don't watch the game. Nelson is at best a 3rd corner on a plus defense. personally, I think he's an okay 4th corner. That's not worth $12 million a year. Smith is young, and the second fastest player on the team. It's absolutely reasonable to think he will get better, and you can't coach speed.
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Season ticket holder - saw more of 'the game' than you did, of that I am relatively certain. I just bothered actually paying attention to what the players were doing on a weekly basis.
Yes, Nelson got 'burnt a couple of times and missed tackles week in, week out'...that's why he made quarterbacks throwing in his direction the rough equivalent of Blake Bortles over the course of 16 games.
I HATED Nelson for years. I'd have very possibly cut him prior to this season after a miserable 2017. This isn't me seeing what I want to see because I never liked the guy from the moment we picked him and there are a couple of people I've argued loudly with about him in the past. I distinctly remember dismissing Jaelen Strong as a prospect because I saw tape of Nelson, who I called a firmly average college CB, holding him in check. I was unimpressed enough by Nelson that when he held Strong to a draw, I was convinced I didn't want Strong either.
But I actually paid attention to what the guy was doing out there this season instead of seeing what I wanted to see and saying absolutely ludicrious things like "Tremon Smith can be as good on Day 1 as Steven Nelson..."
That's just absurd and completely unsupportable by any objective measure.