re: Most disappointing players this year

The players that made the most noise are the biggest culprits. I didn't expect PRob to be a shutdown corner, so he's not part of my list. What is on my list is what we all were fed/heard/saw from last year going into this year.

offense:
pass protection - after all the GREAT talk ending last year on an extremely high note with pass protection in the playoffs and the last 3 or so games of the regular season. I didn't think this line would become the Jags. This is an interior line issue, the tackles are doing well enough.

Colston - he had a great game. He looked like the Colston of old, but one great game doesn't erase the bad games where you were quiet. The Quiet Storm was too quiet for 4/6 games this season after reports of him finally being healthy, looking slender and quicker, he's just not doing what I expected him to do. Yes, he's still on pace for 960 yards, but we need him to be better if everyone else around him is going to play mediocre. If we have any hope of turning it around, he has to play at the same level all year that he displayed vs. Atlanta and Detroit.

defense:
Cameron Jordan - after a breakout 12.5 sack season where he constantly disrupted the offense by being a Watt-lite, he took a massive step back. This is the same guy that improved year after year in his sack #s as well. Did I expect >12.5 sacks? No, but I expected 9-10 sacks on the year. Through 6 games, he's got 1 sack. Last year, through 6 games last year he had 5 sacks.

Akiem Hicks - This guy was the "man-child", breakout DT of the year, blah blah blah that we were fed ALL off-season, this "monster" has been making as much noise as a puppy. He's not mauling or manhandling lineman, its the opposite.

Kenny Vaccaro - After a great rookie year where he was the joker, constantly moved everywhere and made tackles everywhere, he's been quiet. Its not a good quiet, safeties NEED to make noise and he's yet to do that. Whether its the lack of pass rush or the injury is still healing (ankle injuries linger, lets be honest), he's been quiet. This is my issue I've seen, as a rookie he was always "one step" too short to make a play and a few strong safeties are always that way, one step short, but improved. I saw it with Troy Polamalu and Kam Chancellor when they were rookies, so I thought Vaccaro was the same. I was wrong, hopefully an improved pass rush helps that out.