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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Lewis has had some stellar ****ing job security. Four years starting and not even a worry that the dude's job was in jeopardy.
How this guy made it through three different coaching staffs with his job is beyond me.
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He has been fortunate enough to be saddled to purely old school coaches the whole time.
Those types of coaches generally go with the guy that knows what they want him to do. Guys that can interact with the coaches in between plays in practice and talk their way through their responsibilities. Lewis is that guy. Reports were that he was the signal caller for the defense and old school coaches value that kind of thing.
Abdullah was our second best safety, but was coming off a year away from the game and having a backround in the cover 2 4-3 defense from Minnesota...so he had a lot to learn and had to get into football shape. He was on pup when I was at camp.
Demps and Lewis came from similar defenses and most likely picked up their responsibilities a lot faster because their learning curve was probably shorter.
What these types of coaches don't value as much as they should are instincts and playmaking ability because those are things you don't "count on"...those aren't things you coach in practice, so sometimes guys like Lewis will play over guys like Abdullah when the DC is a stubborn old **** like Bob Sutton.