RAIDERNATION said:
He wants to play in Washington because they will give him a long-term deal and it's close to his home in Virginia. Uh huh. Do you really think those are the only reasons?
Denver would reportedly be willing to take care of him after this season with a long-term deal
if he plays well. And there's your problem. He knows that no QBs will throw at Bailey, so Bly is going to see more balls than Paris Hilton's chin. His poor-technique and tendency to gamble on the island will be exposed on a weekly basis, and everyone will know he's a fraud.
Bly doesn't want you to know that <GASP> he's not as good as most people think he is.
What better way to run from a challenge than play for a bad Redskins team, out of the spotlight.
Are you kidding? With as many balls as Bly will be seeing opposite Bailey, it's not out of the question for him to put up a 10-INT season... and if you intercept the ball 10 times, it doesn't matter HOW bad you look on the other passes, you're making some SERIOUS money in free agency. It's what I call the "Dwight Freeney" effect- if you make a dozen really great plays, nobody seems to care about how you looked on the hundreds of other plays.Besides, it's one thing to think that Bly will be exposed, and quite another to think that Bly will be exposed by the likes of Vincent Jackson, Sammie Parker, and Ronald Curry (the three guys who figure to be the #2 WRs for the AFC West teams this year, unless there's a free agency move I've missed).
Some game charters broke down the film of all of the games for the past couple of seasons, and they found that no team in the entire NFL matched up their #1 CB against the other team's #1 WR than Detroit did with Dre' Bly. NOBODY- not the Broncos, not the Ravens, not the Bucs, not anybody. No elite CB in the entire NFL saw more action one-on-one against the best WRs the league had to offer than Dre' Bly... and he acquitted himself very well (well enough to make the pro bowl twice). And now you're postulating that he doesn't want to come to Denver because he's afraid he'll get exposed by players half as talented as the Donald Drivers, Joe Horns, Randy Mosses (in his Minnesota days), Javon Walkers, Joey Galloways, and Steve Smiths that he's been covering (and not getting exposed by) for the past 4 years? Even if his skillset has declined in the last 2 years since he made the Pro Bowl, do you think they've declined from "able to cover Randy Moss in his prime 1-on-1 without getting embarassed" all the way down to "gets burned by Sammie Parker"?
Something's a little bit wonky with your theory.
jurb26 said:
Not sure i really get it. If Bly goes to Wash, he will then be the CB1 and have to face teams best WR. All of these holes in his game would be more easily pointed out by a WR1, no?
Bailey plays on a side of the field. DEN doesn't lineup to matchup. Whichever team plays denver will have their #1 lined up against Bly.
Correction... *LAST YEAR* Denver lined Bailey up on one side of the field (Defensive Left). The year before, they moved him around and primarily matched him up 1-on-1 against the opposing #1. Both are entirely irrelevant, since the Coordinator for both of those seasons was Larry Coyer, and the coordinator this year will be Jim Bates.
Bly was a cancer in Detroit from day 1.
The talent starved Lions were going to release him for nothing!! To get Tatum Bell and a starting tackle for Bly was highway robbery.
The Denver Broncos were going to release George Foster for nothing, and were going to let Tatum Bell play this season as the #2 RB before letting him walk away for nothing, too. Basically, the deal was a "trash-for-treasure" trade for both sides- they both gave up something they wouldn't have kept anyway in exchange for something else shiny and new to get excited about. It just so happened that the "shiny and new" thing that Detroit got was a part-time RB with a case of the fumbles and a mediocre RT, and the "shiny and new" thing that Denver got was a pro-bowler at the most expensive position in the entire league.
Nice analogy.
