Taylor is in the Pro Bowl!!!

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

If I hear "Bob Sanders" one more time I am going to throw up. You know what Bob Sanders did? He was the starting safety on the worst run defense in the league. Yeah, he came back and they got hot (the linebacker change that they made helped too). Why did Indy win the big one, because the entire defense played better. Sanders will never have half the talent of Sean Taylor but Bob Sanders does have Dwight Freeney who is one of the best D-ends in football (remember what he did to Samuels)?

I think you just blamed Bob Sanders for the failure of the entire Colts defense, and then gave him no credit for the improvement because his teammates started playing better. That's whack.

You did earn some respect back with the Highway 57 reference, that was great!

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I think you just blamed Bob Sanders for the failure of the entire Colts defense, and then gave him no credit for the improvement because his teammates started playing better. That's whack.

You did earn some respect back with the Highway 57 reference, that was great!

I didn't and wouldn't pin all of the Colts regular season woes on Sanders just like I wouldn't pin the Redskins struggles on Taylor. I also wouldn't give him all of the credit for the Colts getting hot when he came back. All of their defensive players played better. Sanders helped Indy, no doubt, but everyone is acting like put the team on his shoulders like Ray Lewis did. Bob Sanders didn't bring Indy back against the Pats.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

I didn't and wouldn't pin all of the Colts regular season woes on Sanders just like I wouldn't pin the Redskins struggles on Taylor. I also wouldn't give him all of the credit for the Colts getting hot when he came back. All of their defensive players played better. Sanders helped Indy, no doubt, but everyone is acting like put the team on his shoulders like Ray Lewis did. Bob Sanders didn't bring Indy back against the Pats.

I think you are right here. Bob Sanders was not the difference in the Colts run D in the playoffs. Likewise, he wasn't the problem in the regular season. The problem is obviously in their front 7, a front 7 that was adjusted though personel changes and schematically though the course of the season.

Still, Bob Sanders is a pretty good safety in this league, and is certainly more technically sound then Sean Taylor. It's tough to directly compare safeties who play on different teams though, and I'm not going to say one is better than the other.