Porky
Hall of Fame
I think people have caught on to the fact that the “sauce” moniker has garnered him more praise than he probably deserves as “the” premier CB in the league. I been saying it for a while now & have been labeled “Ms. Stingley” by at least 1 person on this site…but Lots of guys could do what Sauce does with the talent he has surrounding him on that defense. That doesn’t make u an elite. What does is getting your hands on the ball and getting your offense extra possessions in addition to what he’s doing. Gotta make qbs pay.. & he just doesn’t do that when he has the opportunities to.
As good as he can be in coverage at times, he just doesn’t make a whole lot of game changing plays & that’s only partially b/c qb’s throw at him less…which is marginally less than most other CB’s at best…but this is the excuse lots of his fanboys use to explain away the lack of impact plays.
His comp is Richard Sherman who like Sauce didn’t have elite speed but used his length effectively to beast at the position. But What made him elite wasn’t PBU’s which he had a lot of too. if you go back and look at his numbers, even when he was at his peak & qbs were aware of how good he was & we’re weary of throwing to his side, when they were, he was making them pay and as a result was pulling down at least 3-4 ints on average a year. Sauce has 2 in nearly 30 games.
There’s a difference between being in position to knock a ball down and being in position to intercept & if you’ve been watching Stingley over this timespan he’s almost always in position to intercept. Dude was legitimately upset last week that he didn’t intercept Levis on that sideline pass he batted down b/c he got both hands on it. His route recognition has picked up..so much so that he’s began baiting QBs..yeah he’ll get beat from time to time, but contrary to the Sauce brigade, every CB does b/c elite pass/ball placement beats elite coverage everyday and twice on Sunday.
that was Mrs. Stingley. Now it’s Ms. Stingley? I thought you were married. Turns out you are a harlot!