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He'll be on the sideline as soon as Willis & Bowman come back.
No they are not, unless you were joking.
But.......ninerfanatic says he is roster fodder........
He may have a point. I survived off of Barrett Ruud for years and when the Bucs finally seperated themselves from him he proved to be mediocre to say the least.
IDP is an inexact science man. I don't pretend to be able to identify talent on the defensive side of the ball. I do know though that bad/mediocre players have produced consistent results in the past. Mostly IDP is about opportunity and PT something Borland is getting both of right now. I'm not sure if he is good or bad but I wouldn't be so dismissive of others assesments based purely on tackle #'s. Maybe teams are running his way for a reason.
Or maybe people should watch him play before making an assessment then.Btw, Borland just "roster foddered" his way to recovering a fumble in Saints territory during OT.
Read an interesting analogy on Miles Burris. It's the "don't have to be faster than the bear" syndrome. He's bad enough they run at him alot, thus he gets tons of chances. All he has to be is not so bad that they bench him for someone else. There's probably a lot of this at play here. Not that it matters right now to his owners, we'll ride this out and love it the entire time, but knowing it's coming helps prepare.
I was just coming here to post a link to the Baldinger breakdown, lol.
I think you are the one not watchingthe games--or maybe you don't understand defensive schemes, which is ok too. Simply put, the scheme has funneled tackles to Borland. He's made some nice reads, but he's also made his share of 6 yard tackles. While he might be great for fantasy, he's making nobody forget his predecessors. Let's be fair, he has come a long way since miner fanatic made the fodder comment.
Yeah, that must be it, I don't understand schemes.In last week's game, there was a play where Brees was going to check down to a RB in the flat. Borland read it perfectly and shut it down. Coaches notice little things like that, even if nobody else does.
just traded for him earlier this week (2 2nd round Picks) in my 16 team dynasty league and he is paying immediate dividends
What if you have Kuechly, Mosley, Borland, Sio Moore, and Brandon Marshall? Good thing we start 4.
Hmmm. This is interesting. It would suggest that if Bowman comes back, Wilhoite might play more than Borland? That seems crazy with the way he has played, but certain coaches do tend to favor veterans at the end of the season b/c they don't make "rookie" mistakes. I dunno, was he injured for a brief time to explain why he didn't play 100% of the snaps?
I haven't really seen anything, but just off what I've read I don't think they've asked borland to cover much.
borland played 58/70, so he missed 12 snaps, and I'd guess those were probably dime snaps where they preferred wilhoite as a coverage guy, but I'm just pulling that out of my ###.
