I feel like for the most part he’s done his job. Not as flashy as he could be but it’s not like he’s getting touchdowns scored on him every game. I feel like anytime he’s in the area to make a play he makes it. Only real issue could be Tackling.
I feel like for the most part he’s done his job. Not as flashy as he could be but it’s not like he’s getting touchdowns scored on him every game. I feel like anytime he’s in the area to make a play he makes it. Only real issue could be Tackling.
I’ll bite
1-He’s gone terribly soft. I don’t need PFF or All-22 to tell me what my eyes see. He takes bad angles, jogs at times, and in the Saints game last year didn’t even think of trying to dislodge the ball from the TE on the Taysom Hill TD pass. He literally stopped playing before the play was over, and Jordyn Brooks rightly was furious with him on the sidelines over it. I want the Diggs that was a guided missile, a bundle of muscly shoulder that would punish anyone who thought of roaming into his area, or stopped running backs dead in their tracks.
2-He has turned into a show pony. He’s this super-present social media presence and always available for press conferences. The team has even joked that he’s their PR guy. He claps back at anyone suggesting he’s not very good. Last year he shrugged of defensive struggles by saying “we know what we have to fix and they’re easy fixes.” Right after that, they were trucked by the Niners in their playoff game to the tune of 505 YARDS. And most egregiously, he showboated after intercepting the ball IN LIVE PLAY twice last year. Celebrate on your own time, would you please Quandre?
3-His whole year last year was dreadful. He was injured badly the year before, and it seemingly took him a whole season to get his game back. But the Seahawks - having resigned him to top dollar - could not even think of benching him. When he finally had those interceptions down the stretch, Pete Carroll committed a Freudian slip and said “Quandre has come alive” with his play. The implication that he was not playing well at all up to that point.
4-“You don’t know what a safety does on each given play so you can’t judge him” ? Well the Seahawks defense is 20th in points allowed, 23rd in passing yards allowed and 25the in overall yards allowed through 9 games. If anyone has dreams of seriously contending in the playoffs, that is not good enough. The defense as a whole is not even NFL-average. I’m sick of hearing people say Diggs is better than you think, you don’t know X’s and O’s so you can’t understand how good he is. If he’s so good, why is this defense overall so poor? Why do we rarely if ever see game-changing plays from him?
5-Most importantly, the cost. It is completely justifiable to compare the overall stats, Digg’s personal stats and look at his contract and come to the conclusion that they are not getting their money’s worth.
I attended Diggs’ first Seahawks game in SF on MNF (the OT thriller).
He was a revelation. He was hitting everything that moved. He had a pass defensed and an interception with a 44-yard return.
That’s the Diggs I want. And I’d happily defend a healthy contract for that if we could get it even 6-8 games a year, and competent play for the other 9-11. Unfortunately we are not getting it.