Rams all-decade team: strong safety
by Ryan Van Bibber on Jan 5, 2010 6:00 PM CST
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PrintWe're moving along now in naming the St. Louis Rams all-decade team. None too soon either with the decade over now just five days.
This evening we're picking the strong safety of the decade, though I think this should be a fairly easy one. More than immortalizing a long-forgotten McDonalds sandwich, Arch Deluxe played a pivotal role on the Rams defense, working in Lovie Smith's cover two. He would switch to LB some and played a mean game on special teams. I think he always got kind of a raw deal in Washington, with his contract making him a natural scapegoat for the always troubled team. Then again, his skills were really declining as his stint with the Bears in 2008 revealed.
Chavous, another corner turned safety, was just too far past his prime by the time the Rams signed him. Not only had he lost a step, it was painful watching him try to make tackles some times. Still, he's a class act, and I can't believe nobody has hired him as a scout yet...or maybe someone has and we just haven't heard.
James Butler was a good acquisition by the new regime at Rams Park. Paired with MLB James Laurinaitis, it gives the Rams a solid middle to their defense.
Alright, vote.
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Loves me some SS
My son played strong safety when he was a kid and in the few years I worked with his teams I got educated about just how important a good strong safety is. I place them as the third most important Defensive posiiton, behind MLB and DT.
I think it’s a very underrated position, not just because my boy played there but because we both found out you can’t be a truly great SS without being a great athlete. Half cornerback, half linebacker, they play against a wide range of the other team’s elite skill players and positions.
They play man to man against WR’s in some packages, they match up vs. the RB in some packages, they cover the TE in some pakages, and of course they’ll play a deep zone over the top in some packages. Can you imagine all that duty? He needs to avoid being exposed on any play of the game: run over by a 230 lb stud RB, burned by a WR who runs a 4.3 40, or beaten by a 6’6" TE.
You’ve heard the names of the recent great ones like Rodney Harrison, Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu but many guys don’t know they have such a wide range of skills.
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I’d say besides corner back It’s the most difficult position to play in football I believe. Especially with all the pass interference calls you have to be an incredible athlete to keep up, jump and muscle them off the ball.
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by keeperskillz24 on Jan 5, 2010 10:54 PM CST up reply actions
Chavous
seemed to me he was fine till his last year with us
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he looked ok in 2006
but as time went on he was having a hard time keeping up with opponents and making tackles
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by Ryan Van Bibber on Jan 6, 2010 9:40 AM CST up reply actions
I wish that were an option.
But, Archuleta was a pretty good SS until he started getting hurt a lot and playing out of position (which probably caused him to get hurt so much more).
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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