Harper is one of the players that will improve with the 3-4, not so sure about that. I definitely think he's past his prime, but in terms of traditional strong safety play, he isn't terrible. I look for him being used less in zone plays and more on man-to-man against half-backs and on the blitz. My only problem with Harper is his contract.

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Jenkins still has a chance to turn ut around it get better

Not at free safety. The guy is one of the worst in zone coverage. When you have two safeties that can't read plays and adequately play their deep zones, you will get abused like last year. I am not surprised by Harper's lack of coverage capabilities. He's too slow to cover a WR in man-to-man and has bricks for hands when it comes to making plays on the ball. The most surprising thing about the pair of them is Jenkins - he hasn't done well since his rookie year when he was at corner. He's had 2 years to learn how to play zone and just can't. He's pretty terrible at tackling. I can't really defend the guy, whereas Harper you know what you're getting. A good tackler and blitzer with limited coverage capabilities.

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Posted by F machine

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Posted on 4/29/13 at 10:47 am to bountyhunter

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Harper is one of the players that will improve with the 3-4, not so sure about that. I definitely think he's past his prime, but in terms of traditional strong safety play, he isn't terrible. I look for him being used less in zone plays and more on man-to-man against half-backs and on the blitz. My only problem with Harper is his contract.

Harper has his strong points, but I'm not sure if he will fit. If they do use him as a traditional strong safety with run stopping or blitzing, etc, he may be ok. But is that what they want, or will they want two safeties than can cover back there? On the man-to-man half back, I could see him doing ok against some of the bigger guys we play (maybe Steven Jackson or someone like that), but I think he will get abused by a quicker back. Hopefully they don't put him in that situation though.

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Posted by bonethug0108

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Posted on 4/29/13 at 12:15 pm to bountyhunter

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quote: Harper's best days are way behind him.

Harper is one of the players that will improve with the 3-4, not so sure about that. I definitely think he's past his prime, but in terms of traditional strong safety play, he isn't terrible. I look for him being used less in zone plays and more on man-to-man against half-backs and on the blitz. My only problem with Harper is his contract.

quote: Jenkins still has a chance to turn ut around it get better

Not at free safety. The guy is one of the worst in zone coverage. When you have two safeties that can't read plays and adequately play their deep zones, you will get abused like last year. I am not surprised by Harper's lack of coverage capabilities. He's too slow to cover a WR in man-to-man and has bricks for hands when it comes to making plays on the ball. The most surprising thing about the pair of them is Jenkins - he hasn't done well since his rookie year when he was at corner. He's had 2 years to learn how to play zone and just can't. He's pretty terrible at tackling. I can't really defend the guy, whereas Harper you know what you're getting. A good tackler and blitzer with limited coverage capabilities.

Seems like a very good assessment.

I think having Vaccaro able to play both spots let's us take Harper out on passing downs where he isn't blitzing. Harper problem solved.

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