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Thread: Ray Rice has been quiet
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Re: Ray Rice has been quiet
The problem is when players become great, fans expect greatness every time they step onto the field, and they become heavily scrutinized if they don't have an amazing game or fuck something up. The same people are the ones bashing Suggs, but forget what Suggs had to come back from to even play this year.
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02-15-2013, 08:41 AM #74Veteran Poster
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Re: Ray Rice has been quiet
I disagree with this statement. Usually great players get the benefit of the doubt with fans. Rice has never been criticize for having a bad game until these playoffs when he strung together 3 not so great performances. When he had a bad game prior it was always Cam did not use him enough or the oline played poorly. When great QBs have bad game. It was oline did not protect, receivers dropped balls or it was poorly called game. Once you hit elite status your play is typically overrated even as it declines. It is only when it becomes obviously bad do people start to call it out. Case and Point is Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. Their play over the last three years would have been heavily criticized if they were anyone else. I did not see people bashing Suggs. People pointed out that he was not back to 100% and that he was heavy. No one bashed him. People recognized the defense got better with him but he was clearly still not all the way back from his injury. I don't thin anyone expected him to be. It was amazing that he made it back at all.
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Re: Ray Rice has been quiet
The last three years overall Reed and Lewis have been really solid (discounting this year). I think its the other way around, when an aging player that has had a great career starts to decline slightly, people take it way out of proportion and make them out to be really bad players. Ray Lewis was probably below average this year, Reed was above average, but the two years before this one, they were both probably pro bowl level players going by film.
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02-15-2013, 10:48 AM #76
Re: Ray Rice has been quiet
Especially this past season, he wouldn't always follow Leach. Also he doesn't bounce runs to the outside as much anymore. I understand sometimes its better to take a dive up the middle for a 1 or 2 yard gain, but sometimes he has space to the outside and the speed to get there, yet he doesn't.
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Re: Ray Rice has been quiet
Marcus Lattimore in the 5th/6th round? Would anyone be happy/pissed off with that?
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