in their prime who would you rather have on your team: Brian Dawkins or Troy Polamalu
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in their prime who would you rather have on your team: Brian Dawkins or Troy Polamalu 54 votes
Brian Dawkins
18%
10 votes
Troy Polamalu
81%
44 votes
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Troy PolamaluIs this even a topic?
Troy Polamalu is the single-most important piece in a HISTORIC defense. From 2007-10 the Steelers defense has been - without question - the league's best defense finishing first in yards and/or points FIVE times. Over that span they've reached 2 Super Bowls and won one of them. In one of those seasons they did it with a paultry offense where the QB went 18/14(IIRC) and the Halfback averaged a mere 3.9 YPC on some 300+ carries...
Without Polamalu the Steelers defense would've been a good one. With him they have been a HISTORIC one. The Eagles defense was never a historic one despite much talent such as Sheldon Brown, Lito Sheppard, Trent Cole, Bobby Taylor, Troy Vincent, Jeremiah Trotter, Al Harris, Hugh Douglass, Hollis Thomas, Corey Simon, Michael Lewis, Derrick Burgess, Jevon Kearse, Darwin Walker...
Troy impacts the way quarterbacks must approach the play in a way that only Reed can match. Polamalu is the better player on a grand scale, i don't care how great of a leader Dawkins was. He was the inferior player in an impacting the game way. -
Troy PolamaluI'm obviously biased... But that right there just put my mind at ease about my choice
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Troy PolamaluI'm trying to think of what B. Dawk actually did better than Troy.
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Troy Polamalub dawk was nice tho
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You ? and these lopsided polls
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Troy PolamaluUSC USC USC
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Troy.
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Troy Polamaluas a ravens fan, ill choose troy. he stopped too many damn plays against us.
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Troy PolamaluShould had been reed vs troy
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Ed reed
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Troy PolamaluLookdude should stick to IllPix threads lol
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Troy PolamaluDead@ that German suplex
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MikeydaGawd wrote: »Should had been reed vs troy
That thread was made a couple years or so back. -
Brian DawkinsTroy is a free bird in their system but is a liability in coverage. I think BD can play on more teams
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Troy PolamaluTroy is a free bird in their system but is a liability in coverage. I think BD can play on more teams
Top 3 pass defense when he's on the field middle of the pack when he's not. -
Troy Polamaluinfamous114 wrote: »Lookdude should stick to IllPix threads lol
More polls coming just wait on it
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Troy PolamaluTroy.... Troy.P plays big time ball in the playoffs.Our run in '08 and '10 troy was playing lights out.... ask ravens fans dey know .
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Brian DawkinsShizlansky wrote: »
He places himself in good positions to make tackles/sacks. When he has to defend a receiver one on one he is less than average. That"s why he doesn't do it much. Troy needs room to roam he doesn't fit in everyone's scheme -
Troy PolamaluStep ya poll game up y'all.
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Troy PolamaluTroy its not even close
Great Hands(has two of the greatest ints ive ever seen vs seattle and then philly both if the same nature)
Better range
Better athleticism
He was a game breaker
And he could hit with the best of them
Matter offeact him and Reed the best safeties ive ever seen
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Troy PolamaluShizlansky wrote: »
He places himself in good positions to make tackles/sacks. When he has to defend a receiver one on one he is less than average. That"s why he doesn't do it much. Troy needs room to roam he doesn't fit in everyone's scheme
Which safety out there is playing man coverage?
And please don't say E. Thomas -
Troy Polamaluplaymaker88 wrote: »Troy its not even close
Great Hands(has two of the greatest ints ive ever seen vs seattle and then philly both if the same nature)
Better range
Better athleticism
He was a game breaker
And he could hit with the best of them
Matter offeact him and Reed the best safeties ive ever seen
I'd put the pick he made against the chargers in the snow over both. -
Troy PolamaluThat might be actually one of the two im talking bout unless he did that ? 3 times
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Brian DawkinsShizlansky wrote: »Shizlansky wrote: »
He places himself in good positions to make tackles/sacks. When he has to defend a receiver one on one he is less than average. That"s why he doesn't do it much. Troy needs room to roam he doesn't fit in everyone's scheme
Which safety out there is playing man coverage?
And please don't say E. Thomas
The whole thing is that isn't where he is making his money. He is a hybrid. Most of the league can cover better than him but the all can't do what he can. Thats why i will take Dawkins because he can do both
