Add new comment

1

Hmm, you really think Kam = Earl? That's an interesting take. Statistically speaking, the Hawks went from a top three pass defense with Earl to like the fourth worst without him last year. We even got blown out by the Packers, marking the first blowout loss in several millennia. There's a general consensus in the Seahawks community that this was almost entirely due to Earl's absence. Kam, meanwhile, has missed one or two games at a time here and there, and the defense always looks like a worse approximation of itself without him, but is still recognizable. It looked dramatically different without Earl.

I see your point about Kam winning games singlehandedly though. The punchout vs Megatron, the ankle tackle on Blount and the endzone coverage on Gronk last year... if anyone hasn't seen it, do yo'selves a favor and google "Kam Chancellor here comes the boom." Best soundtrack on a highlight video ever. And man, Kam has put up a HOF level highlight reel, even though he’ll surely never make it. Still and all, I'm not sure he has the force amplifier thing going for him. Maybe he does by virtue of being the only SS who can really play the "Deathbacker" role in the league, but the way I see it his value comes from exceptional individual plays. Sherm and Earl make the plays too, but they also shut down the left third and deep middle respectively, and I think that field-shrinking is where a good 1/3 of their value lies.

Filtered HTML

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><p><br>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

shout_filter

  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.