I'm not going to "Walk away" because shitty tacklers who show zero signs of improving in that regard deserve to be cut.

This isn't Joe Horn part two. Bernard Pollard was crap here. You do not DAMN NEAR LEAD THE LEAGUE IN MISSED TACKLES and escape judgment, sorry. Facts are facts.

He was fairly shitty in Houston too so it's not like this happened overnight.

The Chiefs dumped him because Scott Pioli is a goddamn moron. Care to argue that point?

The Texans didn't dump him, they just didn't offer him the 4/$12 million that the Ravens did. How's that dumping him? He was their starter all year.

Again, your logic is garbage. Teams make decisions not to re-sign players all the time. For instance, is Brandon Carr shitty because the Chiefs didn't re-sign him? No, they just didn't want to pay premium money to keep him.

A $12 million contract for a SS is a pretty sizeable contract - the Texans didn't want to pay it so the Ravens did. And they immediately made him their starter.

Yeah - he sucked so badly that a team that is clearly better run than all but about 5 in the NFL gave him $12 million to be their starter.

This is as bad an argument as I've ever seen from you and I've seen you create some amazingly shitty arguments.

DJ is going menstrual again. Care to touch the 80/83 thing or you just gonna write paragraphs of excuses?

Ah, good ol' revisionist history.

Pollard showed plenty of signs of improvement. He was getting better in his angles and actually getting more responsible in coverage, though clearly still very raw.

And then Pioli cut him for Mike Brown. And no, he wasn't shitty in Houston. You and Billay are just flat making this up. He was a Pro-Bowl alternate his first year and in his 2nd year he earned a contract that put his salary well above the halfway point for strong-safeties in this league.

Again - you children are simply incapable of differentiating between a decent player and a great one. Pollard NEVER sucked. Never. Not for a single year he has ever started in this league. Mike ****ing Brown sucked. THAT is suck. Being so lousy that nobody ever allows you to play for them ever again.

Bernard Pollard has been signed and made a starter for 2 teams that are vastly superior to the organization that cut him loose. He most assuredly did not 'suck'.

Improving, but still darn near the worst safety in the league in every measurable way.

Hilarious.

That is the DEFINITION OF SUCK, friend. Why ignore facts?

His last season there he gave up SIX touchdowns. 65th rated safety. Texans fans HATED him.

Your bias far outweighs any facts I bring unfortunately.

Signed by 2 very well run organizations and paid millions of dollars while guys like Mike Brown and Jarrad Page were dumped from football without as much as a hearty '**** you'.

You guys are right, he clearly wasn't one of the 53 best players on our roster. We definitely should've kept Mike Brown over him.

Keep dodging the 80/83 ranking this isnt about a discussion as much as it is about you blowing yourself.

The interesting thing is you want to shit on Mike Brown, who wasn't very good for sure, but he sure missed fewer tackles than Pollard, and gave up fewer TDs.

Bias. Bias. Bias. Ignoring the facts.

I saw pollard miss a tackle on leftwich this year ROFL ROFL ROFL

Who thinks the hit on Ridley was a good tackle?

My bias? That's rich.

You've been after the guy his entire career. And the only reason you defended cutting him was because you had doe eyes for Scott Pioli.

You're right - Ozzie Newsome doesn't know shit about football. He should've listened to PFF instead of bringing in a guy that unquestionably added to his football team.

PFF will continue to blister Pollard for not being good in coverage and continue to fail to show the impact he has on guys that come across the middle against the Ravens. Listen to guys in the league talk about playing against him - they hate it. Why? Because he's the same guy he's always been. He's a damn assassin that brings anger and intensity to a defense in a game that is fueled by anger and intensity.

He's exactly the kind of player this defense is missing and we had him on our roster.

But you and Billay are right, Pioli was completely correct in keeping guys like Tim Castille, Sean Ryan, Derek Mays and Demarrio Williams instead of him. Men that left the organization and had stellar careers like Mike Brown and Mike Richardson.

Because that's the argument you're making. That the Chiefs were smart to cut Bernard Pollard in favor of Mike Brown.

Defend that one for me, bucko. Go ahead and show me how cutting Bernard Pollard for Mike Brown was a smart decision to make in either the short or long terms.

It wasn't. It never was and never has been. It was a shortsighted decision made by an idiot general manager and defended by ditto-heads who still can't bring themselves to admit the obvious.

Keep parroting a stat that Clay fed you without knowing what it actually is or any context for it.

PFF's rankings are always subject to review. But again, clearly Ozzie Newsome is a moron for signing a guy that was worse than 20 safeties that came off the bench for teams that year, right?

You're so unwilling to critically examine anything that you're taking that statistic at face value. Really. There were honestly 20 safeties that didn't start that were 'better' than Bernard Pollard that season? Sure - whatever you say Billay.

It wasn't - but that's exactly the thing with Pollard.

Pollard just changes things on the field and they are things that aren't reflected in PFF rankings (and involve an aggression that can get him into trouble at times as well).

He's not really any different a player than he was here, which is why Clay's argument, that he got better after we cut him, is largely crap. He's a very very similar player.

He's a very good component part. He's a guy that can go out there in a playoff game and have guys short-arming passes over the middle. He's a guy that can get people nervous about trying to lay out for a pass or even accelerate up the field.

But hey, he missed tackles here and there so he's worthless...or something.

I never claimed Newsome was a moron. Ive seen other guys excel in the same role as Pollard and go on to suck with other teams. Dwan Laundry, Leonard, Zwibitkowski, and the dude with the Japanese name all looked good in that role and were average at best with other teams.

No, I defended cutting him because I had hated him his entire career for being a shitty player who had gotten so bad by the end of his time in KC he was darn near the worst safety in football. That is a fact.

He's had a couple of good years with the Ravens. That doesn't invalidate what he was before at all.