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Originally Posted by The Franchise
If the argument is that Thornhill misses tackles….then it’s no excuse. He’s more athletic than Sorenson. He’s a better deep safety. And you can’t say that he doesn’t fit the scheme because he excelled his rookie year.
Yeah Thornhill isn’t a LB/S hybrid but who the **** cares. Gay is back now.
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I think the argument
was what I alluded to previously - a safety's job is to be the last line of defense; to make a bad play less bad. If a safety can keep an 8 yard run from turning into a 30 yard run, he's provided value. Think of what a problem Ron Parker was when he was making business decisions on every interior run play.
But here's the problem with that argument
now. Let's assume for the sake of argument he's a better, more willing tackler than Thornhill - the juice is no longer worth the squeeze there. Sorensen is now cheating on routes. He recognizes his skills have diminished so he's taking shortcuts to keep from being exposed. He's biting on double moves, diving on play-fakes and taking himself out of position trying to make up for rapidly declining range.
He's now turning 15 yard pass plays into 60 yard pass plays.
He's unplayable. His strengths, such as they are, are simply outweighed by things he's doing to make up for his weaknesses.
They have to get him off the field.