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Originally Posted by over the mountain
yeah i know we are int depraved unit and halls way of playing does lead to some ints but i just find it hard to rely on a guy with his mindstate as our no 2 corner. honestly im more upset with him for the personal foul and how he shook his had when springs came over to interfere with that possible interception he had.
that just tells me he is a "me" guy and those guys (see lavar) dont do well with our style of playing accountable defense. sometimes you have to sacrifice your body to eat up a blocker to allow your teammate behind you to get the sack or tackle. sometimes you just have to make the solid tackle and keep them from picking up the first down vs jumping the route and hoping for an int . . .
i dont know but i do know that any opinion about team chemistry and not stat based gets bashed with the usual: "are you in the locker room", "are you greg blache", "lets not become a psychiatrist here" or "he has 2 ints what are you talking about?"
theres more to the patriots then stats, theres a reason moss checked his attitude at the door and revamped his career, theres a reason belicheck doesnt mind bringing on proven but aged vets . . they are focused on winning, not jumping routes to pad their int stats.
as a whole we have a good solid core of players, for that im thankful b/c im able to say things like hall's personal foul was not the redskins way of doing things.
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I think the flubbed INT was much more of a "me" play for Springs than it was D'Angelo Hall. Hall was standing there with his hands out ready for an INT so easy that even Carlos Rogers could hold on to it. He was right in Shawn Springs' line of sight, yet Springs launched himself in front of Hall to try to make an acrobatic catch, which didn't work.
The D had been getting gassed all day. All Hall did was shake his head. He didn't mouth off or stomp his feet. But sure, he was probably frustrated. There was no need for Springs to launch himself into that play. He knocked over Hall and cost
the team an opportunity at a big turnover. I know it's a bang-bang situation, but if anyone is guilty of a "me" play on that one, it's Springs, not Hall.