Comments on: The Poz Couldn’t Replace Barrett Ruud

By: espo

espo — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:16:01 +0000

Bucs fans want Ruud to play in a way that his coaches do not? Are you saying his coaches are okay with him missing tackles? that’s my only concern, and I am a Bucs fan. I don’t want him to be Ray Ray or Jack Lambert or Hardy for that matter. I want him to lower his level of suck and get a guy down the 1st time. We keep hearing all these people give their take on Ruud but I’m yet to hear any opposing running backs. They’re probably too busy giggling like school girls at the prospect of an easy 100 yards.

By: Hire Greg Olson!

Hire Greg Olson! — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:58:48 +0000

Bobby Bowden was relevant 5 years ago? Try 12…

By: RastaMon

RastaMon — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:52:23 +0000

Rudd as a LB played behind a DLine that in the past 2 NFL drafts have drafted …High…fast and furious for…. 2 DE and 2 DT’s….
to be fair…..Rudd had alot of offense in his face…..with an improved DL….Rudd will have a much smaller field to play….I still think he has much greater potential lining up behind a much more dynamic front 4

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:23:33 +0000

CharlieB:

Fans here find every excuse to ditch Ruud. The truth is, many football minds think Ruud is a very good linebacker in our system. There is no FA or rookie that can exceed that right now. The last time Ruud had a semi solid d line he looked like a probowler too.

Ding… ding… ding… ding!

Kirwan specifically mentioned that Ruud would improve with the Giants because of their defensive tackles.

By: Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:19:34 +0000

Rudd does well on the not missed tackles list because Barrett is a PRO at throwing himself in front of those big running backs.

Barrett Rudd – the human doorstop!

Hey does anyone else besides me miss SABBY and the goat photo’s?

By: Chris FWC :)

Chris FWC :) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:40:48 +0000

@ Joe, LOL Remember when LaVar Arrington pancaked the punter and wouldn’t get off of him? Against Purdue? Great college player not so good NFLer.

We should sign Ruud to a one year deal.

Everyone wants a RAY RAY but sometimes a RUUD is all you can get.

By: CharlieB

CharlieB — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:46:17 +0000

Barrett Ruud does well on the few missed tackles list. The stated problem with Ruud is not that he’s a poor tackler, it is that he is soft against the run and tackles 5 yards downfield. According to the article Joe linked above, Poz has the exact same problem.
Fans here find every excuse to ditch Ruud. The truth is, many football minds think Ruud is a very good linebacker in our system. There is no FA or rookie that can exceed that right now. The last time Ruud had a semi solid d line he looked like a probowler too.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:54:58 +0000

Per FootballOutsiders, Poz had three broken tackles against him and 114 tackles.

I find Paul Posluszny’s appearance on this list to be interesting, especially in conjunction with the poor run Stop Rate we reported last week. Posluszny was making his tackles farther away from the line of scrimmage than is usual for a linebacker, but at least he wasn’t missing them. This is the second straight year that Posluszny had only three broken tackles. Most of these linebackers who were low in broken tackles last year were also low in broken tackles the year before. Takeo Spikes and Jerod Mayo had only four apiece in 2009, Clay Matthews had three, and Keith Brooking had two.

From the limited amount of times Joe has watched the Bills — why the hell would Joe want to watch the Bills? — Poz plays well off the line of scrimmage.

By: Big Marlon B

Big Marlon B — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:48:05 +0000

Thanks Joe i guess i stand corrected, i thought he missed a bit more than that. in that case, give it a shot! lol

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:43:47 +0000

m.wesley:

Wow. Poz doesn’t miss many, does he?

Not a surprise. Don’t ever remember him missing a tackle at Penn State. Poz was the best linebacker they had since LaVar Arrington.

By: Theodore

Theodore — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:37:17 +0000

When a team finishes with an awful record with a soon to be expensive free agent, the saying goes “We don’t need you to be awful.” By every measure, the Bucs defense has been awful with Ruud as a starter. I simply don’t buy this notion that the defense would be worse without him.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:36:38 +0000

Big Marlon B:

Joe was under the impression Poz was injury-prone as well. But that’s not the case. Yeah, he missed his rookie season with a broken arm. But in the past three years he missed six games, that’s two a year. That’s not so bad.