What hurt us last night, was not having Rocky!

[skinsfan_nn]

What hurt us last night was our DB's / Safety not being able to catch a football thrown right into there hands.

HB Blades didn't kill us! Of course he's not Rocky, but he's the next man up and certainly didn't cost us the game.

Merriman is a used up has been.

Originally Posted by aceinthehouse

He's currently tied for 17th in the League in Tackles with 46(1 sack) and that's after missing last nights game. He was averaging 9.2 tackles a game before last nights game.

Which would have put him at 55 tackles and ranked 7th in the League behind Landry,Mayo,Fletcher,Timmons,Pollard and D.J. Williams.

Instead,we had B.B. Blades in his place. Anybody want to guess,how many tackles he had in last nights game? He had 1 tackle...

Which takes me to my 2nd point.
This is more reason we take a shot @Merriman when he becomes available. We don't have the depth @LB to overcome missed time in games or injuries.

I realize that Merriman is best suited @ going after the QB,but having him on the team,would allow Haslett to shuffle around the LB core without a great loss imo.

I also realize that we were in a lot of Dime/Nickel type coverages with 1 LB,but both Fletcher and Orakpo managed to have a FF in the game and A.Carter recovered 1 as well.

Not to mention,we could have used Merriman on the line standing up,like last night as well in those disguised coverages on manning.. He's 6'4" 265 lbs

I'm betting Merriman could have got 1 tackle...lol
So put me in the camp of hoping we get this guy for very cheap,when he is released and becomes available....

Plus,if he works out well for us this season...that's one less draft pick we need to use on LB's with him relatively young at 26 years old.