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Originally Posted by Dunerdr
Stats don't tell the whole truth. Demps and flowers had significantly different amounts of playing time. Coopers stats look good but he was shit at the end of the year against solid qb play. Flowers was out for most of the dogshit qbs we played. Do tell more....
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You're right. Flowers had 866 defensive snaps to Demps' 637. Flowers had a hell of a lot more opportunities to make plays. Over 200 snaps more. And yet Demps was more productive.
Difference between Cooper and Flowers was that Cooper only struggled against the top QBs, Manning and Rivers; which was to be expected given his limited experience with playing the position. Flowers struggled against everybody despite being hailed as a "top 10 corner" by CP.
When the coaching staff pulled Flowers from #1 CB responsibilities after watching him get absolutely destroyed by Dez Bryant, that should have told you something.
Flowers missed a game against the Giants. They only scored 7 points.
Flowers missed the first game against the Raiders. They only scored 7 points.
Flowers played the 2nd game against the Raiders. They scored 31 points.
Flowers missed exactly 1 game against a bad QB. You really think that was the difference between the huge statistical drop between Flowers and virtually everybody else in the secondary?
