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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
1. Adam Archuletta is not 14 years old any more. He's not going to get faster than he is now. By the time you reach adulthood and your late 20s, you are as fast as you are going to be on a football field. He has as much chance of increasing his IQ by 30% as he does of decreasing his time in the 40-yard dash by 10%. The safety position is not one that demands great speed, but when you ask the safety to do as much man-coverage as this scheme did to Archuletta last year, he damned well better be able to run with the receivers he's asked to cover. And he couldn't; and he won't next year either if they do the same things with him. Gregg Williams (remember, the second "g" stands for genius) better damned well figure out how to use Archuletta differently next year or there will be a $10M signing bonus guy covering punts and kickoffs and not much more.
2. Somoene suggested that Archuletta may have a "chronic back injury". If that's so, then expecting him to get any better is really dumb. Chronic back injuries don't get better in the collision sport that is NFL football.
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#2: Tendonitis is considered a "chronic" injury. However with rest, and aritroscopic surgury, it can be removed. Chronic doesn't mean you can never get rid of it, it means that there will always be a
risk of reaggrivating it.
If he was able to make those open field tackles, he would have never been replaced. Poor cover skills alone are not going to get a safety benched as MOST safeties have weak man coverage skills. I'm saying theres a chance that playing sporadically over the 2nd half of the season will give him an "extended offseason" and assist him in his recovering. If he is still injured next year, hes useless to us and his career is over. But we don't know that right now.