To be fair to Trufant, wasn't his injury just this year?
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2018 Secondary
- Thread starter JoeyFlex5
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You're right. He played all of his prior 57 games before the injury, starting from the beginning of his rookie season. Too early for the injury-prone label.
And even if he isn't a top 5 player, he's definitely a top 20 in my opinion, easy, with great consistency in his game.
He, along with Eifert, were my two players to get in the 2013 draft. I was really upset when both got drafted ahead of the Ravens.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-camp-storylines-that-could-shape-2017-season
The part on Humphrey is the most wrong article I have ever read.
The part on Humphrey is the most wrong article I have ever read.
Wow, that was really a bad article, but Chris Simms isn't known for being accurate in anything
Never heard of him before...
I haven't paid attention to Chris Simms as a writer, but he lost a great deal of credibility in my eyes when he was announcing one of our games, and he stated that Steve Smith Sr. will not be inducted into the Hall of Fame prior to asking if he's ever had a season where he was considered a Top 5 wide receiver in any given season. Not 2005, apparently, when he was the last WR to earn the Triple Crown in over the last 20 years. I sent him a rare tweet the moment I heard the comment with that nugget.
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Did he respond
He was tight in coverage all day
Intelligently enough, he did not. I didn't expect a response since my activity on Twitter is bone dry, but I was hoping he'd at least read it on his feed. There just wasn't a potential retort in play. What's baffling is, Simms saw by far his most career game starts in that very same season with 10. He played in literally the same division as Smith while with the Buccaneers himself. He was sitting on the opposite sideline as he watched Smith put up over 100 yards on his own DBs in each of his two starts against Carolina. Then he watches Smith finish with the TC, and goes on to imply in the future that he wasn't a Top 5 WR in any season. Nevermind the fact that your job as an announcer is to do your research. It's only one mistake, so I don't mean to continue harping on it, but golly, was it absolutely avoidable.
Baffling, but I can completely understand how bad he is at the craft. All you need to do is check his bloodlines. His dad is a bad announcer as well.
Looking good, tight coverage all day and particularly promising was his 1 on 1 agaibnst Perriman where he was a step behind but still managed to turn his head. Didn't play the ball per se, but at least avoided any chance of DPI. Shows good progress.
BTW videos work fine on my phone.
I really like Chris Simms because he seems like a genuine dude and he's not an ass hat about the Ravens, but when I heard that, I had the exact same thought- what about 2005? I even had to take to Google just to make sure I wasn't imagining it.
In that same game, wasn't he talking about how Smith used to terrorize the Bucs? I seem to remember that.
Ah, good to hear. I'm familiar with him as a player but not as a person/analyst. Perhaps it was just that gaff then. Though it doesn't help that he called us being at full strength defensively against New England and Pittsburgh. Exactly lol I did the very same myself. Happens to me a lot when I hear something that's very much off.
I'm almost certain he did as well. Good call.