I like it, not a word you hear used very often.

LMAO

One time I used "hypotenuse" in a thread and Claynus almost shit his pants.

I'm pretty proud of my vocabulary and I've NEVER heard of that one, got me there.

You've heard of a hypotenuse.

Look up a right triangle. It's the diagonal edge of a triangle.

You learned about it in high school.

Just addressing Rivers. You know, the guy who people were starting to talk about as having reached a new level and maybe even an outside shot at MVP. The Chiefs only shut him down and held him to his worst stats of the season.

But he had his way with us so carry on...

They scored 20 points in 20 minutes. He had his way with us.

Exactly how much Football IQ do you think a safety needs? Like Peyton Manning IQ or???

Hell watch the Wizard of Oz.

It was dog$#it...

If you've watched Ed Reed and Polamalu, you'd know what a difference football IQ makes. Those guys are elite so that's not a huge deal if Berry doesn't have that level of IQ. But we are talking about a guy who could become an extremely highly paid safety.

You're overplaying this whole football IQ, freedom to make adjustments bullshit agument,

I'd bet you that if you were to go back and watch every game that Polamulu and Reed played and compare them to games that Berry has played, you'd find that neither of them lined up in the box in 4 gamen stretches as often as Berry has in a single game.

That imits his adjustments far more than Reed and Polamulu.

dog, dollar, pound it?

what dat

Playing in the box actually gives Berry more ability to make adjustments because he can communicate directly with his linebackers. One of the main reasons Buddy Ryan started to line his safeties at that level. Most notably, a signature of Ryan's 46 defense was using the safety in a jayhawk adjustment. In a Ryan defense, the strong safety should have flexibility to read the defense, make a pre-snap adjustment, and have the linebackers adjust to what he's doing. That's how Landry has been used with the Jets. See below.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/fo...icle-1.1946766
"Ryan, who coached Landry for three seasons in Baltimore before bringing him back last year, trusts the veteran to absorb pre-snap offensive looks, make the proper adjustments and convey the changes to teammates. He is Ryan’s Chief Communicator in the secondary with thankless responsibilities that will never make SportsCenter."

So again, if in a Ryan defense, the strong safety is given lots of pre-snap responsibility... you and I both agree that Berry is playing WAY too many snaps as a linebacker and a blitzer. I really wonder if that's because of Sutton's playcall or Berry's pre-snap adjustment. I get that you think he should play single high -- I think he'd excel in that role too. But there's no doubt Berry has the physical ability to play SS. So it's more than fair to ask if he's handling the job mentally as well as we think he is. If he isn't, that's just another reason to consider him for free safety.

Become? The dude is making 20 million in two years here. He already is.

Fair to ask. Maybe he plays less LB if the ILBs are more consistently fulfilling their gap responsibilities. Maybe he blitzes less now that we're getting better pressure from our D-line. Maybe he has less of a need to cover Kendrick Lewis' field.

Or maybe Berry doesn't read offenses as much as we give him credit for. Certainly an interesting question we'll have a better sense for when he comes back.