Safety Tony Jefferson

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
I disagree. I say our fans dislike our safeties more because they follow the team so they know about the lack of "playmaking" from our starters. But the reality is as pass attempts have increased a lot the amount of interceptions has been steadily declining year after year since the beginning of the super bowl era. Our safeties rarely get beaten deep and are not liabilities when tackling after the catch and in a zone defense that's what is asked of them. Would turnovers be good. Hell yes but most if not all QBs can read a safeties drop into coverage by high school especially when they are running C3, C4 and 2 high shells. Not exactly the most complex trap defenses to confuse a QB.

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by KittleMeThis:
If healthy, he's easily an upgrade over what we have.

i think this is the truth

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
I disagree. I say our fans dislike our safeties more because they follow the team so they know about the lack of "playmaking" from our starters. But the reality is as pass attempts have increased a lot the amount of interceptions has been steadily declining year after year since the beginning of the super bowl era. Our safeties rarely get beaten deep and are not liabilities when tackling after the catch and in a zone defense that's what is asked of them. Would turnovers be good. Hell yes but most if not all QBs can read a safeties drop into coverage by high school especially when they are running C3, C4 and 2 high shells. Not exactly the most complex trap defenses to confuse a QB.

Spot on.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Over who? Tarrt & ward are pretty darn good safeties

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by KittleMeThis:
If healthy, he's easily an upgrade over what we have.

i think this is the truth

Over who? Tarrt & ward are pretty darn good safeties

Originally posted by cciowa:
tarrt is way over rated by the fan base in my opinion. along side of the x center we had and thank god retired

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
I disagree. I say our fans dislike our safeties more because they follow the team so they know about the lack of "playmaking" from our starters. But the reality is as pass attempts have increased a lot the amount of interceptions has been steadily declining year after year since the beginning of the super bowl era. Our safeties rarely get beaten deep and are not liabilities when tackling after the catch and in a zone defense that's what is asked of them. Would turnovers be good. Hell yes but most if not all QBs can read a safeties drop into coverage by high school especially when they are running C3, C4 and 2 high shells. Not exactly the most complex trap defenses to confuse a QB.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
I will say the clips I've seen of him the past couple weeks training look good...the knee isn't a problem at all

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by NYniner85:
I will say the clips I've seen of him the past couple weeks training look good...the knee isn't a problem at all

He's been training for a while too. He was wearing 9er gear a couple weeks ago so the speculation ended up being realized.

God is good let's work 💯 pic.twitter.com/mgpVVGPQzV

— Tony Jefferson II (@_tonyjefferson) June 7, 2021

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by KittleMeThis:
If healthy, he's easily an upgrade over what we have.

i think this is the truth

Over who? Tarrt & ward are pretty darn good safeties

Originally posted by Kolohe:
They're okay, I think Jefferson could easily replace Tartt.

Originally posted by cciowa:
tarrt is way over rated by the fan base in my opinion. along side of the x center we had and thank god retired

Originally posted by Sickaa:

Originally posted by cciowa:

tarrt is way over rated by the fan base in my opinion. along side of the x center we had and thank god retired

Tartt Is actually understated by this fan base, we all saw what happened to the D In 2019 once he went down for afew games due to Injury.