hawkfan68":raq96iap said:chris98251":raq96iap said:drrew":raq96iap said:Sherman was elite for a lot longer than Nnamdi was (who I love as he went to my HS), but I think their absolute peaks are similar.
Nnamdi got exposed moving to a different system, we'll see what happens with Sherman.
They use our system.
They don't have Earl Thomas. They can use the system, they don't have the type of players the Seahawks do to execute it. It'll be interesting to see how not having Thomas back there anymore impacts Sherman. If you look it his work objectively, Sherman does get beat quite a bit. He's successful with the "bigger" type of receivers like Bryant, etc but it's the small TY Hilton types that burn him.
I don't think anyone in SF is expecting the same D in SF that was in Seattle during that run.
I don't think anyone in SF is expecting Adrian Colbert (who was a really nice find last year) to be Earl Thomas.
However, not being one of the best players ever at the position doesn't mean they can't be effective with different personnel.
The Jags run the same system and had one of the best Ds in the NFL without Earl Thomas. Now they have 2 great CBs, lightning fast LBs and a great pass rush, but my point is that the system works with different personnel.
I'm not expecting the Seahawks circa 2012 or the Jags circa 2017...but I do think Sherman can be very effective.
All the Niners are really missing on D right now is another LB (although not sure on that one...might see Foster, Smith, Warner or Foster, Smith, Harold...this of course assumes Foster is cleared) and a true Leo (Its hard for me to call it that. I always want to call it an Elephant).