The only difference I see is, teams can roll protection to Matthews side. They can't roll anything to a Safety.
"Dexter_Sinister" wrote:
Sure you can, you can run route trees that force a safety to make a read and move.. then sell him with the QB looking him off and then attack the hole.
Is it more complicated and somewhat dependent upon the safeties decision and the other DB's coverages.. sure.. but you can manipulate a safety and somewhat scheme him out of the play.
IMO.. the difference between Ed Reed and The Hair is Ed is not as disciplined in his coverages and is more instinctive than Troy.. Ed is playing the ball more and Troy is playing within the scheme and his responsibilities more.
Additionally Hair is more versatile overall and Reed really isn't a force around the line of scrimmage, Troy can do things that Reed simply can't because of the physicality difference between them. But Reed is a better overall "true" safety and thief of passes.
That said you can expose Reed's gambling nature and his lax on assignments if he is wrong (Not often).. Troy is more assignment sure.
Both are excellent players, but if I had to take one.. it would be the Hair.
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