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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4648675, member: 27"]
Interesting.

I thought Garrett, when he was playing, was our best defender.  By a large margin.  Thought he was having an All American type season.  Really good pass defender and fantastic with run support.  He was making a crazy number of tackles per game for a CB.  
Jones would be my number 2.  Warrior.  I think I would put Wax number 3.  Those guys made a lot of big plays.

Thought Carter and Barron improved a lot over the course of the year.  Thought they were very close and not too far below Jones and Wax.

I would put Duce just below these guys.  He had a leg problem, was it a bad hamstring?  Not sure.  But he never had great speed and the leg problem made things worse.  He was a step behind a lot on pass coverage and got beat quite a bit.  Was very good with run support, as always.  It seemed like he had to come out of games a lot.  Would get into a big collision and have to sit out a series.  Did not play up to his potential dealing with injuries.

Simmons is another guy who got better but when the other team made a big completion at a key moment, it seemed like Simmons was beat a lot.   I would rate him lower than PFF.

I think Darton and Okechukwu should be on this list.  Those guys had good years.  Our defense asks them to tie up OL and the metrics PFF is using might be overstating tackles and overrating LBs some.

That said, I generally watch the games live.  Period.  Don't spend time reviewing the film.  It is very possible I am missing a lot.
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