Objectively, it should be a close call, but I think the nameless one will retain the title in a landslide. I'm not a smart football man at all, but some part of me feels that a historically bad safety can be replaced by the coaches or the scheme can be changed to compensate for the weak link. A kicker is on an island, for better or worse. He can't be replaced in-game and his incompetence or emotional fragility will be exposed and magnified.
Even so, the safety has to merit some consideration for his "body of work" with the hotel fiasco as his magnum opus.
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