The safeties

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(11-28-2023, 04:42 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I think missing Bell is not primarily from performance, but attitude and mentality. It's not really a tangible measurable thing, but it always felt like Bell brought some toughness and a physical attitude to the secondary. 

I am not under any delusions that he was the most athletic and talented player, but he was solid and seemed to bring the needed intangibles to the defense. He was a Captain, and while there's some bad undeserving Captains around the NFL, having a reliable full-time player who was an experienced starting veteran out there probably would have likely helped this season from a field-general and stability/calming standpoint.

When they say a guy will put his hat in the pile, Mike Hilton and Vonn Bell are my main examples



They don’t care if it’s all lineman in between them and a tackle they’ll HAPPILY risk a painful pancake to get a run stop


Jordan Battle appears to have that mindset as well






The issue with not tackling in camp is guys like Nick Scott can look good and start for 10 games because there is no way to grade tackling in camp.



I saw this in Battle from the jump and was one of the first ppl to say Scott had to be benched