Popeyejones":2x8g29dx said:Maybe Slay should keep his mouth shut, but diminishing his ability as a CB is either petty or displays a lack of knowledge about the NFL more generally. After a rough rookie outing he was a monster last year.
The loss of Suh is big of course, but I still think Teryl Ausitn is the major story with Detroit's defense, and he's still there.
That Slay's a little salty about how much love the Seahawks defense gets isn't to be unexpected either. IIRC he's right. Detroit had the best defense in the league until the end of the season, and ended up #2 in yards/game and #2 in ppg.
That doesn't take away anything from the Hawks - their defense was still #1 in both yards and points by a pretty sizeable margin (30 yards/game and 1.7 points a game), but Detrioit had a monster year on defense that basically got ignored because they couldn't run the ball to save their lives and Johnson was banged up all year.
I don't disagree with this, but the first thing Slay needs to do is not worry about us, and worry about stopping AP and the Vikings on the ground.
That team is on an upward trajectory, and I think AP is going to come back with a vengeance and lead the league in yards again, to prove a point.