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Gil Brandt's Top FA's over age 30- includes Rolle

FranknWeezer : 3/5/2015 7:45 pm

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4) Antrel Rolle, S
Age: 32. Birthday: Dec. 16, 1982. NFL seasons: 10.

Though Rolle seemed to fall off a bit in his fifth season with the Giants, he did rack up 87 tackles, which is pretty good, along with nine pass breakups. I think he's the type who just really loves football and will want to play as long as he can. The former eighth overall pick will never be the fastest in the world, but his high levels of intelligence and competitive fire make up for that. He's very, very smart; in fact, Rolle is kind of like Charles Woodson, in the way that he'll help get his teammates lined up right and guide them on what they're supposed to do in pass defense. He'd be a great addition on a team with a young secondary.

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I could listen to Brandt talk about the old Cowboys

arniefez : 3/5/2015 8:03 pm : link

and football in the 60's & 70's for hours. But anything current he's a total waste of time. Rolle was the leader of secondary that lined up wrong more than any team in the NFL the last two years.

Two years

Semipro Lineman : 3/5/2015 8:42 pm : link

ago the Giants were the 10 best team against the pass. Last year they were 18th. Pretty amazing for a group of guys who rarely lined up correctly in that time period

The biggest screw up in

RetroJint : 3/5/2015 8:58 pm : link

coverage that I saw this year were two instances when McLain blitzed when he had the short middle zone. . McLain called the signals. Before you shit your drawers and say something about Fewell, consider what I just wrote.

As far as Brandt , old, tired Cowboy warhorse-go home. The analytics people have retired his usefulness. John Schneider isn't paying attention to Gil Brandt but he is PFF. Where did they rank Rolle? He's lost range. He was never a quick-diagnose guy to begin with. He was effective because of his physical attributes and great, competitive nature. He had a very good run with the Giants. Although he initially teamed with Where Did He Go Webster in complaining about the allegedly complicated nature of Fewell's schemes, at the end he defended PF. The Redskins might be the next stop. That would make for interesting theatre .

The Giants were 10th best against the pass?

arniefez : 3/5/2015 9:43 pm : link

at what? Having the other team stop throwing in the middle of the 3rd qtr because they were ahead by 20 points? If you've got stats handy where did the Giants rank in allowing passes over 20 yards the last two years?

Rolle playing with a rangy center fielder like McCourty

chris r : 3/5/2015 9:44 pm : link

might still have a few good years left. Get Rolle closer to the LOS and he's still a good player.

I'd take the opinion of Gil Brandt over PFF.

Reese's Pieces : 3/5/2015 11:48 pm : link

Brandt actually got it done in the real NFL world building Cowboy teams that won.

PFF so far has proven that it's great at marketing itself as expert in evaluating and comparing players. There's a big market for that between regular NFL and Fantasy NFL.

They haven't proven that their evaluations are correct. There are a lot of contributions a player can make to a team that don't show up in stats. And accurate stats are hard to come by. If an end gets past Beatty for a sack, is that all on Beatty or did a back fail to give him the double team or chip that he was expecting?

RE: Rolle playing with a rangy center fielder like McCourty

BlueLou : 3/6/2015 12:30 am : link

In comment 12165993 chris r said:

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might still have a few good years left. Get Rolle closer to the LOS and he's still a good player.

Fair point radar, but I doubt Rolle sees himself in the salary slot of that type of player - IMO close or at vet minimum. Everyone with eyes saw Rolle's dropoff last year. I doubt the Giants even view him as more than a 3rd safety going into 2015...