Can we Duplicate 2011 Season

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(09-09-2020, 05:58 PM)J24 Wrote: Hall vs Jackson is a push, Alexander is better than Clements,  I would take Phillips over Jennings, Bates vs Nelson is a draw , and Bell over Crocker. It's not a huge gap but I would take this secondary over that one.

Zimmer is no doubt the goat but last year's unit significantly improved at the end of last season compared to the first part.  Lou proved himself towards the end of last  season.

Jackson and Bates were exceedingly meh last year. Plus both forgot how to tackle.

Give me Hall and Nelson over Jackson and Bates in a heartbeat. Hall was coming off a 4 INT season, which is 2 more INTs than Jackson has had in 4 years in the NFL. He was also a very sure tackler. Nelson is a 2x Pro Bowler who in 2011 had 4 INT, 2 FF, 2.0 sacks, and could absolutely lay down the hammer with hits (and was Ben Roethlisberger's kryptonite).

There's 0 chance that Hall v Jackson and Nelson v Bates are both even comparisons.

Also don't know why you're saying it's Phillips vs Jennings when it'd actually be Phillips vs Adam Jones. Jones ended up a Pro Bowl CB later, so I don't know if that'd be a favorable comparison either.

I would also argue Bell = Crocker. It wasn't until 2012 that Crocker really started going downhill.

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But honestly at the end of the day I wouldn't care which secondary I got so long as it was Zimmer as DC rather than Anarumo.