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sandtrapjack · 05-02-2009, 10:26 AM

Williams was a good SS at the time he was drafted, because he fit the mold at that time. The division and the league was pretty much smash mouth, run the ball down the defenses throats. In fact if you look at the stats of his first few years in the league, you will see that if you combine the total receiving yards of all the TE's in the NFC East, then compare it to 2007-2008. Jason Witten and Chris Cooley each individually attained more recieving yards in one season than all the TE's in the NFC East COMBINED in Roys rookie and sophomore season.

So the East was primarily a running division, and a big gap type safety was perfect at that time. Not any more though. New rules came along that encouraged the vertical passing game, and RW's "Achilles heel" was revealed.

And yeah he can stop the run, but he was successful when he played safety close to the line. In other words, he had 3 other TRUE linebackers taking on O-linemen and shedding blocks for him to give him a tackling lane.

But this thread talks about making him a LB, and Roy is too small to handle O-linemen on his own, he cant shed those blocks on his own like what is expected of a true LB. It wold look like LaRon Landry and Brandon Jacobs in week 1 of last season.

Face it. Williams is a "gap safety" and the days of the gap safety are gone.

That's why I always referred to him as a "one trick pony".

05-02-2009, 10:26 AM	#9
sandtrapjack The Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,994	Re: Roy Williams? Williams was a good SS at the time he was drafted, because he fit the mold at that time. The division and the league was pretty much smash mouth, run the ball down the defenses throats. In fact if you look at the stats of his first few years in the league, you will see that if you combine the total receiving yards of all the TE's in the NFC East, then compare it to 2007-2008. Jason Witten and Chris Cooley each individually attained more recieving yards in one season than all the TE's in the NFC East COMBINED in Roys rookie and sophomore season. So the East was primarily a running division, and a big gap type safety was perfect at that time. Not any more though. New rules came along that encouraged the vertical passing game, and RW's "Achilles heel" was revealed. And yeah he can stop the run, but he was successful when he played safety close to the line. In other words, he had 3 other TRUE linebackers taking on O-linemen and shedding blocks for him to give him a tackling lane. But this thread talks about making him a LB, and Roy is too small to handle O-linemen on his own, he cant shed those blocks on his own like what is expected of a true LB. It wold look like LaRon Landry and Brandon Jacobs in week 1 of last season. Face it. Williams is a "gap safety" and the days of the gap safety are gone. That's why I always referred to him as a "one trick pony".