Because he's how old? We are talking about last year anyways, he should've come in on passing downs, as he proved vs KC.
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His last full season with the Steelers he had 5 sacks. Having 2 with NE cannot be extrapolated to a full season. That is not how it works.
2017 he was only 1 year younger than he is now and, presumably, had less wear and tear on his body in 2017.
What's so hard to understand about: while Harrison "may" have been better than durpee, i also "may" be that the difference was so marginal as to be insignificant. It "may" also be that he wasn't, at all.
See, you've never seen me say he wasn't. You get all up in arms because i suggest he might not have been, or only marginally, so.
If just being 1 year older this year has such an effect after having only light work in 2017, why would 2017 been that much better than 2016 after playing in 16 games ans producing 5 sacks? Might it have been? I suppose so. Is there significant evidence to support that? Nope.
I'm not up in arms, I'm not saying he should've been starter, but he should've come in on passing downs, anyone that watched saw Dupree wasn't getting to the QB, hell they switched his position because he wasn't getting I done. I don't care about stats, Harrison was far more disruptive in the little time he played than Dupree was.
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Those 2 sacks did come against Eric Fisher though (KC) right? Deebo is that man's kryptonite. But I agree with yinz, Deebo should've been in on passing downs, Dupree just wasn't getting it done.
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not sure what that has to do w/ anything, but I dont think chick / moats would be signed either. I can understand the team sticking w/ Dupree even though he was not performing, but I do not understand putting in chick / moats and not even dressing Harrison. Its not like they provided great coverage skills...
Moats wasn't signed this year he did radio for SNR.
Harrison set the edge and was a better pass rusher than Dupree, Dupree could definitely cover better. Anyone with eyes and watches football knows who the better pass rusher was.
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Tomlin didnt even give him a fair chance in what everyone knew was his last season. That is ****** in my opinion. Real ******.
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I never disagreed with the assertion that he should come in. Just for the intimidation factor alone.
I'm just suggesting that there may be a reason he didn't.
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If I were to make up a scenario it would be that he told Tomlin something or made it obvious that he didn't like the way Tomlin let players act and Tomlin punished him. Remember his tweet - "What you permit, you promote. What you allow, you encourage. What you condone, you own". What doesn't make sense in this scenario is him hanging out with AB, who I think would be one of the players getting away with ****.
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Bullshit. You didn't read my post and are trying to ask me about something I didn't say. Why is the sky blue? Answering that has as much to do with my post as what you are asking me.
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Whatever floats your boat, skippy.
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Don't blow it off now. Tell me where I said what you say I said. You can't skippy. You didn't read it, you just thought you knew what it said. Obviously you were wrong but that **** still needs to be stirred so stirred it.
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So, you don't think Harrison was better. Glad we agree.
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We agree that you want to start **** about a post that had nothing to do with that. Glad we agree.
Didn't try to extrapolate, simply pointed out facts. Harrison was still good enough to be signed by and play for New England. He wasn't one of these hacks Belichick signs for a few weeks to get insight on the player's former team. Harrison was a contributor in the Patriots' final regular season game, and was utilized throughout the playoffs, including the Super Bowl. It's not like he got picked up by the winless Browns because they had nobody else.
So Harrison may or may not have been better (by your own assertion) than Dupree. Fine, we agree about that. I'm not "up in arms" about it.
You keep on bringing up Harrison not playing in 2018, like it has any relevance to the conversation. There's a lot of reasons the guy might have decided to hang them up, namely his advanced age. There's exactly TWO linebackers in the history of the National Football League who have played at the age of 40...Clay Matthews in 1996 and Junior Seau in 2009. TWO.
What there IS evidence to support is that James remained proficient enough to perform for a better team than the Steelers -- AFTER he was cut by Tomlin LAST season.
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