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Originally Posted by scho63
Amazing that there was a near consensus that everyone wanted Dorsey to try and retain Sean Smith because he was a good player that fit in well and now that he is gone, suddenly his skills have diminished between the end of the season and the start of free agency.
Did he trip over a chair or become an alcoholic in the off-season and lose his mojo?  |
He is a good NFL starting CB player.
He's not elite or shut down like this forum makes him sound like nor is he worth 10 million per.
He's a 6'3 mismatch CB that not many teams have the luxury of having every week. Most offenses don't have to game plan against a Sean Smith type every week so when he comes up he's giving a different look at your WRs than most CBs they face in a given season. Does that make him better/good? Maybe. But it certainly makes him a nice luxury to have in your scheme.
The factors that made him good here:
He played RCB, he didn't even have to face good WRs most weeks. He was playing teams #2, #3 best options most of the time. The times teams did dare to put a good talent on his side (Watkins, Gronk, Sanders, etc) he most certainly did struggle.
Raiders are paying him 10 million per to what, line him up as their RCB? I don't even know who their scheme is, but if they plan on playing him at LCB and he's facing Maclin, Thomas, Benjamin 2x a year he might actually struggle.
He benefited here big time playing in a scheme for 3 years where he had over the top help from guys like Ron Parker, Eric Berry, Kurt Coleman, Abdullah, Branch, Demps, etc.
He's not going to have that much talent behind him in Oakland so he's going to have to pick his spots a lot more carefully on when to be aggressive in case he loses.
That doesn't mean he stinks, but if you think you can put him on an island for 60 snaps a game it's going to be a long season.