BF004 wrote: ↑05 Sep 2020 07:54
It's like some sort of disease has stricken NFL safety's
possibly a contagion spread from unemployed department store workers getting that extra 600 a week to stay home
HHCD : hey man I can bust my butt and play hard for 2.5 mil. Orrrrr, I can lay on the couch for 1.5 and order in popeyes chicken, and wait for some other team to sweeten the pot.
I think Dix can play better then he has, he showed that for us his first couple seasons, but imo he wants to be payed first to do so, to me that is the new standard in the game, instead of first earning the pay, some athletes now expect to be first paid big kajinga for them to play there best.
Dix was good enough to bench Hyde by the 5th game of his rookie season, and was either making the tackles, assisting with one, or right there as the play ended with almost every play, and he did that pretty consistently his first 2 seasons, his 3rd and till cut in his 4th season he looked like a player avoiding injury.
also felt Dix was a product of scheme, Capers or his DB coach seemed to want him not to gamble, not to jump routes, instead to backup the CB's and other defenders, which is actually what a single high safety is suppose to do, and he did that to the tune of 5 picks his second year along with about 85 tackles or so, Dix showed he had the talent at that point.
Yoho, the best safety in league history is/was slower then Dix, so I disagree about this stuff people say that Dix was to slow to play FS, getting to the ball on schedule is mostly about reaction and commiting to that, and his 3rd and 4th seasons he had two edge corners that couldn't cover a bet, so now if your single high, tasked with not letting anything past you, which of those two often toasted CB's should you commit to back up, my point is those things cost time to make that commitment, so it's easy to blame the safety when over looking these reality's, imo Dix forced a trade, didn't get the money he wanted from the skins and because he didn't give it his best effort his skills have eroded, thats my impression anyway.
