toffee":396up4p4 said:
Not sure if Earl will be back, but the team has been trying to trade him for the past few months. One got to believe front office and Pete have someone in mind to step in as our new FS? Earl was the one Pete traded up to draft because Pete saw something in Earl that will make his system shine. Have Pete found someone with similar attributes? Who might that be? We draft Tre Flowers, a safety but is converting him to corner. We sure didn't sign any big buck safety.
Could be we did and he is already here. Earl isn't a interception machine, his qualiies are his Football IQ and ability to process information fast and then react and get there fast. We have guys with his speed, we just don't know about the IQ and reaction time to diagnose plays before reacting. That requires film room time and study habits that Kam, Earl and Sherm all put in huge hours on, that dedication paid off in on field recognision and communication that we all seen as a devestating pass defense.
I remember it being said that those three spent as much time in the film room looking at offenses and individual players for tip offs as Wilson spends.
I think Earl will miss that combined brain thrust, I hope Kam sticks as a Coach or at least on the PUP and a contributor to pass along that work ethic.