Former Chiefs CB Benny Sapp Apparently Not a Big Herm Fan

You’d said that he’d elevated his level of play. I disagreed.

Regarding the issues of tackles, you said that it doesn’t matter that he only has 46 this year because most of the tackling is done by Minnesota’s front seven. So he isn’t being asked to do it.

You said that he plays a lot of man coverage, so that explains his complete lack of INTs this year. (It doesn’t, really, as you’d figure that he’d still have at least one when ‘his receiver’ was targetted almost 60 times, but whatever.)

My response was that, basically, you said he elevated his play because, well, he’s not being asked to tackle (because the front seven are doing it for him) and he’s not being asked to get INTs (because, apparently, that’s what the other CBs do instead?) and that I’d like to have the sort of job where I get applauded for everyone else doing the bulk of the work.

That’s not willful obtusity. That’s replying, with sarcasm, to what your argument was.

Now, I’ve backed up my side of the argument statistically, showing that not only is Sapp far below the level of play of both Flowers and Carr (the latter of which people around here aren’t seemingly satisfied with). He’s also the worst, as far as defending passes, of the three Corners on Minnesota’s team.

That being the case, if he has elevated his play (ie: your argument), then his play must have been woefully inadequate before and Herm would’ve been absolutely right in telling him that he had no business playing Corner in the NFL.

And, for what it’s worth, Minnesota’s pass defense is ranked below the Chiefs’ pass defense this year and are near the bottom 25% of the NFL. So, even with Sapp’s supposedly ‘elevated’ level of play, they’re still easily the weakest link in that Defense.

My point is that, even if he has managed to raise his level of play, he’s still sub-par and two connecting flights from being a mediocre player.