Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Is Peak Sanborn the same as Jim Morrissey?
Chet, even you would average 10 tackles a game behind the late 1980's Bears defensive line, Singletary should send Hampton and McMichael a check every week for making him look so good.
It all really get to guys making business decisions, if you're a 6' 215 pound guy like Roquan whose game is built on speed there is absolutely no way you are going to take on an OG or TE in the hole when your team is 4-9 and going nowhere, why would you risk getting hurt, you have seen the same thing out of Eddie Jackson for the past several seasons. Plus, Roquan was supposedly out partying all the time and had very little interest in the playbook or watching tape, so he wouldn't recognize play keys or realize which gap he had anyway, so he was basically out there freelancing like Hicks, Jackson, Quinn, and Mack, hunting down stats, but taking plays off. The vaunted "Bears Experts", will never even notice this, but you got it out of Olin a few times last year, it happens at every level of football, you can see when players throttle it down and semi quit on a season, not quit on the coach necessarily, but why kill yourself when your team isn't going anywhere?
However, a guy like Sanborn has to prove himself, so he is going all out and playing physical football. The league, well maybe other than Captain Grab Ass Matt Nagy, is ruthless about identifying player weaknesses and exploiting them, you should see Mr. Sanborn being tasked with trying to cover speedy RB's and TE's soon.