View topic - James Farrior needs to go

[lmarshalljr04 Profile]

You don't send a turtle to hunt a rabbit..

[Steelhope Profile]

[uknowwho Profile]

I'm shocked that nobody has brought up Rey Maualuga ... I was so excited on draft day when he was still there at 32, staring us in the face when our pick came up after dropping from original projections. You win the Super Bowl, and have the 32nd pick, a guy like this drops for ANY REASON ... it's worth the risk (he supposedly struggled with scheme discipline ... funny, it didn't prevent his success in college ... and that's what professional coaching is for).
We have a 50 year old, slow, befuddled, middle linebacker, and this guy is sitting there ripe for us to pick him ... and we don't!!
Instead, we pick a lineman ... when we run a fuckin' 3-4 defense! Farrior's position is arguably the most important position in our scheme, and we let this guy slip past us (and go the Bungles for Christ's sakes!) and choose a down lineman in the first round for our 3-4 scheme!! I know our line has gotten old, but the job these guys do for us, don't require first round, or 2nd round picks. Their resposibilities in our defense don't require first round talent, you can find these guys in later rounds, and we always have (save for the nose ... which Hood isn't!!).
It just didn't make any sense what so ever, and this season just continues to prove what a disastrous mistake that was. Can you imagine playing the next 5 years with Timmons, Woodley, Harrison and Maualuga as our LB's??!! Talk about an intense, fast, ferocious group ... at the most important positions in our scheme ... I just don't get it ...and I think we'll pay for this huge mistake for years to come because of the vacuum Farrior creates (contract and all!)

[Sun and Steel Profile]

Farrior should be told to wait outside the stadium until every critical 3rd and 4th down play is completed. He has no business being on the field in either 3rd or 4th down situations, he is now a two down linebacker. Four times he has looked like a drunken sailor on critical 3rd or fourth downs that have cost the Steelers a victory. You see, unlike our arrogant ass of an OC, most NFL coaches actually watch film and put their players into position to succeed in situational football scenarios. Cameron Cameron watched Chicago, Cincy 1, and KC and saw that Farrior could not cover the LB out of the backfield on ANY occasion where it mattered and what did he do? He put Ray Rice in motion to detect the coverage and Flacco watched Taunto move with him. So Flacco and Cam say "thanks Dick and Taunto, for making our job soooo easy, we'll throw it to Ray and watch Taunto flail like an epileptic who took in too much of a Pink Floyd concert." And the rest as they say is history.

[Jeemie Profile]

I agree Farrior is useless in pass D unless he's blitzing.

The problem is...there's no replacement for him on the team.

Fox manned up on Rice would have been just as bad a disaster.

None of the backup DBs is any better.

So, for better or worse, we are stuck with Farrior there.

LeBeau simply has to stop letting his defense get schemed into bad matchups. As soon as I saw Farrior follow Rice when he split wide, I knew it was over.

Timmons should have been on Rice, and Farrior on Heap...Heap hadn't done jack-shit all game.

And there should have been pressure up the middle on that play anyway to try and disrupt it- that's how they were messing up Flacco anyway.

The flaw in the "mixer" defense is Farrior- LeBeau has to start giving up a bit of "unpredictability" there in favor of making sure Farrior doesn't get burned again.

At least until Troy comes back- Troy covers up a multitude of sins on this defense.

[Sun and Steel Profile]

Well put Jeemie...be nice if we got Troy back in time for GB and Balt to complete the run of unleashing hell in December.

[ILLSTILL Profile]

Four times he has looked like a drunken sailor on critical 3rd or fourth downs that have cost the Steelers a victory.

Four? FOUR?!?!?!?

HAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHA.

Waaaaaay more than that, bro.