Team MDP?

I already voted Tuitt.

 

Gotta be Dupree ,I mean come on

 

I don’t disagree that he’s not playing to expectations, but he has twice the sacks that Tuitt has and twice the tackles. Tuitt just signed big money and is paid similar to the top D-linemen in the league. Pay means performance

 

12-3.
Beat more teams with winning records than any other franchise in our conference.
Battled the nearly-penalty-free Cheats to the final play.

Hard for me to label any player a “disappointment”. Every guy has made a contribution.

 

Other - Alberto Riveron

 

I vote Burns. In this, his second year, he seems to have regressed rather than make strides forward. His inability to understand zone coverage concepts is downright alarming and has been responsible for a big chunks of points the defense has given up this year. For a first round draft choice, I was really hoping for more.

 

Oof, actually a tough decision. I wanted to go with Mitchell, but not sure that age/skill degeneration is a disappointment so much as just "how it goes". So I went with Burns - he's really seemed lost out there at times this season.

 

There's no clear cut winner. IMO Tuitt, Davis, and Burns all deserve to be the most disappointing player. They are all players I expected much more from . All 3 players were given the opportunity to shine and completely whiffed. Bryant won this last season. I expected him to be rusty this season and he was.

Maybe I'm most shocked about Tuitt just because he proved him self before and seemed like he was on the verge of greatness before getting hurt. Did Aaron Smith have the same injury as Tuitt? Was that the same thing that ended his career? I also had hope that Burns would take the next step forward. He seemed like he was close to being a pro bowl caliber corner at the end of last season. Now he's possibly losing his starting job to a 3rd round rookie. Davis is kinda in that same boat. Not sure if he regressed or was just exposed this season but either way he's just flat out BAD. He would not be starting on most teams right now, we just have no options otherwise.

It's amazing to me that we have as many disappointing players as we do this season and we're looking to go 13-3. If you look back at the history of the NFL, not too many teams win it all with as bad a defense as we have right now. You can count on 1 hand how many teams won it all based on a great offense alone. I'm thinking NE and the Rams is about it.

 

I thought MDP was going to be for Most Distracting Player. Ben, Bell, AB, Bryant, Harrison, Gilbert, etc.

 

I didn't go with Bud because he's pretty much been a disappointment since he's been here. I can pretty much guess the reason he was so willing to go after Harrison like he did was because it was pretty widely thought that Harrison should have taken his job. After that little rant about JH I'm thinking Bud better put up or shut up.

Mitchell has been crap for a while now..he's only continuing his slide this season.

Hargrave won the NT job be default last season... he's shown NO improvement this season but I'm not sure that I expected him to blossom into some great player. He is what he was when we drafted him.... here's what they said about him before we actually drafted him... he has not changed at all:
Weaknesses
Squatty with short arms and tiny hands. Very raw as a pass rusher relying on athleticism over moves and counters. Lacks instincts and feel for the position. Doesn’t anticipate down blocks and can be knocked around because of it. Doesn’t play with enough anchor. Lack of length could become a nonstarter if he doesn’t play with great quickness. Feel for the game and technique could take extended time to learn.

These are exactly his issues... he's the opposite of casey hampton. he's not quick enough so he's getting blown up and moved on every run play. Again the problem is we have NO depth behind him so we are stuck with him. He should be used in passing situations only right now.

 

I have to say arrive burns .he still might be a very good corner but to often this year he is out of position and looks lost out there. As bad as the run def has been at times this team has struggled against the pass for many years. Although the numbers might say otherwise how much confidence do you have in them to stop a good qb when it matters most.

 

Hargrave has not been the same player as last year. Add that to Tuitt's health and the D-line has been weaker, even with Heyward back this year.

 

Tuitt

 

None, that is why Tomlin needs to put the ball in Ben's hands on first and second down to move the chains when the game is on the line.

 

I chose other. JH is very disappointing lately.

 

McCullers.

Thought he might be able to kick in with some help rotating on the line, but he's done squat...

 

It only let me vote for one, Bud Dupree you can add Tuitt to my list also, along with Burns and Davis.

 

This team reminds me of the '01 team... except that team's weaknesses were QB and secondary. This current team has issues on all levels of the D, but top 5 offense. The front 7 on the '01 squad was good. I remember the Steelers losing to the Bengals that year, coached by Lebeau. That game pretty much set up a blueprint on how to torch the Steelers D. Patriots followed suit and Raiders did too the following year. Any QB with a quick accurate release pretty much torched the Steelers before Troy and Ike came along.

 

Harrison

 

Now that's funny cause I was thinking other too....Spence........

 

I voted Tuitt but a very close 2nd imo was Hargrave. The way Tuitt got off to a start I was like man our dline is going to be nasty, then the injury. I am not sure if he is playing hurt don't have that info but if he is then I give him a pass. If he isn't he gets my vote here, I thought he was gonna have a monster season the way Heyward is. As for Hargrave I thought he was gonna be the part we were missing since Big Snack and we aren't getting that from him.

 

Davis has pretty good stats, 89 tackles, 14 stfyds and two interceptions so far, and he had 12 tackles and a pick against the ravens in week 14 and the next week against the pats week 15 he had 10 tackles, so he has improved this year and has some playoff games to further boost his stats, you have to put his game in perspective and see the good plays he makes and dont grade him soley on a couple plays he misses, there is more good than bad in his game this year.....

 

Yeah, that's not bad... I called them the Bumble Bs earlier in a thread.

 

MDP is definately Boz . Most Dependable Player