Jazzhawk
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Oh yah!!!!!
Shutdown Corner defined??
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Oh yah!!!!!
OkieHawk
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I'm so glad we have the team we do right now. LoB/defense is top notch, and our offensive isn't too shabby either. Great time to be a Seahawks fan.
RolandDeschain
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I bet Sherman's pissed about it, too. Can't get interceptions if the ball is never thrown your way.
This happened to Revis before he got hurt. He literally erased a team's top WR target and QBs wouldn't even throw at him.
Sherman has arrived. Now, I would find it funny if the players did a vote on the top 100 players and Sherm isn't in the top 10. QBs won't even throw at him...how can they not vote him elite ?
Sherman has arrived. Now, I would find it funny if the players did a vote on the top 100 players and Sherm isn't in the top 10. QBs won't even throw at him...how can they not vote him elite ?
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I noticed this during the game. It seemed like Matty Ice wouldn't even look Sherman's way.
Seahwkgal
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LOL. This is why I never draft those kinds of players in Fantasy IDP leagues. They get avoided. Good for team, bad for points.
My sister drafted Revis one year and it was the same thing.
My sister drafted Revis one year and it was the same thing.
RolandDeschain
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Hawks46":17u8t1br said:
Eh, not really. Revis was targeted 85 times in 2011, and allowed 35 catches, 1 TD, and a 53-yard reception. In 2010, he was targeted 57 times, allowed 22 catches, 3 TDs, and a 35-yard reception. 2009, he was targeted 111 times, allowed 41 catches, 2 TDs, and a 53-yard reception.
He's a fantastic corner, don't get me wrong; but there isn't really any such thing as a corner who is never thrown at with any sort of consistency. In fact, going back as far as Pro Football Focus has stats for, (2008) Darrelle Revis does not have a single game where he wasn't targeted at least once. (The only exception being games he was out for.) Sherman's already got him beaten in that category. I don't know if any other sites track this that go back further than 2008, but he was drafted in 2007, so it's only one missing year.
Nnamdi Asomugah has 8 games where he started and was not targeted even once since 2008. However, they all came when he was in Oakland, 2010 or earlier. This is a little misleading because Oakland's defense largely sucked overall when he was there, and it was an easy/obvious choice to just throw anywhere but Nnamdi's direction, whereas Revis played his Jets career with a good overall defense, making it more likely that offenses would try to spread the ball around a bit; but with a Pro Bowl corner on the other side and Sherman being an All Pro, teams pretty much have to try throwing at Sherman at least a bit, because you're not gaining much by throwing to the other side. The fact that Atlanta didn't target him once is very impressive. It would be quite a bit less impressive if we had a crappy defense, but we don't.
Blitzer88
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Thats pretty cool. Keep shutting them down Sherm!
HawkFan72
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If a guy shuts down his entire half of the field, then yes...I guess that is the definition of a shutdown corner.
