He's a monster of a player.
There's a lot of justifiable disappointment when it comes to the results we've seen in a few games now by the D. Last week was an embarrassing loss, no doubt.
But when you look at the entire picture, even in a loss like the one against the Raiders, you can see the team is VERY close to being VERY GOOD on both sides of the ball. Some incredible play is unfortunately being obscured by a few bad mistakes - and mistakes that are coming at inopportune times, at various levels, especially on D.
For example, the run defense last week on all but 6 runs, gave up around 3 ypc, but lost the game giving up runs of 25, 30+, 80+, and 3 more around 10 yards or so each on those 6. And the failure on those 6 in each case was obvious an imminently fixable.
And lost in that are performances like Brooks', that are, but for a play or 2 per game, outstanding.
Just so happens those handful of bad plays are happening amidst and simultaneously in some cases with other, small errors and are unfortunately compounded.
The arrow for Brooks and the core of the defense is pointing way up. In years past, we were duct taping a team together around older pieces and misfit new, or borrowed parts. Now, we have something being built from the ground up, with a lot of really solid players who are still missing a few pieces and are early in the process of coming together.