2010 NFL Off-Season Rumors and Reports (Week 3)

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Originally Posted by The Goat

Seriously? Do you watch Landry on the field? Against Atlanta Landry avoided contact almost the entire game. Very early he waited for a player to run out of bounce instead of creating contact (I think it was Turner). L8r he dove to the turf in terror when Turner ran up the gut and Landry had an open field shot. Personally I think that play is the most memorable of Landry's career rather than his getting trucked by Jacobs. He avoided Turner basically the entire game though, as he does whenever he faces a dangerous player.

I mean this stuff is on tape...

And it's another reason why the moving him to SS argument is nonsense. First of all he played a centerfield safety for LSU. He roamed deep in the backfield and picked off a hell of the lot of passes, until his senior year when offensive coordinators just stopped calling any deep passes against LSU's defense. He was a deep FS almost his entire college career. When we drafted him it was to compliment Sean in that we could have two guys roaming back there, not to keep a guy in the box. If Landry is put at SS I PROMISE our defense regresses because it only means more missed tackles and more penalties. As FS Landry rarely sees the RB get that far up-field (because we've got excellent tacklers mostly at LB and SS) but almost every time that happens Landry gives up a TD.

I have watched LL just as much as you have. When he played against Dallas and New Orleans he was destroying everything that moved.

The whole team was terrible against Atlanta. I remember some bad angles against Turner, I do not remember him being afraid to take on any runningback.

Why would he be afraid of Turner but be frothing at the mouth to take on Jacobs? It doesn't add up.