Tre White now a Raven

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On 11/9/2024 at 9:26 AM, tsylvester said:

He does look heavier no doubt. I guess we will never know if he heavier or has just lost s few steps.

The benching of both Jackson and Williams is telling. One or both are not playing the coverages right or are just at the end of their careers. It's one thing to be too deep and get best underneath.

Quite another when they so often get best deep. When they take wrong angles to make a tackle and the receivers run free for long touchdowns.

We fans are not used to seeing this defense be bad, not since 1996, and most fans are too young to remember.

We do remember the terrible safety play after Ed Reed, Rod Woodson retired, Eric Weddle moved on.

Williams was playing great before he got hurt last year. Now,he flashes, but by & large he is trying to hard to read a qb, and gets stalled allowing receivers to get behind him, late to give the help.

So if it isn't just the coaching, as Humph says, is Stone, who often left his responsibilities and made plays, and Queen, who didn't get better until Smith got here, the key issues?

Neither is playing up to the level of last year, this year on their new teams.

But is seems these players, Williams, Jackson, Stephens to some extent, have lost their speed and are trying to overcompensate by reading too long?

The team clearly though cb, Stephens, needed to be replaced by trying to make the trade.

But they also see that safety is the biggest problem, sadly, there is not much that they can do there, save for putting rookies in there.

Maybe White will get his shot after this fake bye week, replace Stephens, see if that helps.

Stone has played well the 2nd half.

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7 hours ago, papasmurfbell said:

Stone has played well the 2nd half.

Yes, I am sure they team wanted to keep him, but his price was too high, and they thought a healthy Williams would live up to his contract. They were wrong, clearly.

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I get the money.  I’m just saying he did well last night.

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As did Queen, wish that they could have kept one of them. On a positive note, Owe seems to be rounding into form as is Robinson who is destroying pockets.

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They didn’t run right at queen.