Bishop is very overrated, he's pretty much a healthy Abdul Hodge with a little more pop and a little less athleticism. He's nowhere near our best LB, if he was don't you think he would be starting? Or getting more playing time?
"Packers_Finland" wrote:
He isn't starting because the team is afraid to admit the players who get paid more aren't better. Bishop and Chillar would be a lot better than Barnett and Hawk.
"packfan4" wrote:
LOL, yeah ok. What a crock, I can't believe people actually believe these sort of things.
As for Bishop being overrated, sorry but he is IMO. He's fine playing downhill and attacking the line of scrimmage but he's extremely one dimensional and when he's forced to play out in space he struggles immensely. He'll make a great play, then follow it up with 2 boneheaded plays. He's kind of like an Atari Bigby at LB. Case in point, forced a fumble against the Vikings last year(the 2nd game) to stop Peterson on 4th n 1 and then was burned for a long TD by Chester Taylor the following drive. I'm a Bishop fan but he's not a complete LB, and never will be, nor is he a starting caliber LB in this Defense. He's a great rotation guy to use in short yardage and obvious running situations, which is his role. Playmaking is very overrated, sure it looks great and it makes the highlight real but i'll take the tech-sound, consistent guy any day of the week. It's like when people mention Antonio Cromartie as a top CB nowadays and used to put Lito Sheppard into that same category, it's a joke. Cromartie was statistically the worst CB in the AFC last year, yet people will see him making big plays and consider him one of the best and don't even know who Nnamdi Asomugha.