"Look. I want you guys to look," the safety says. "I'm around the ball and the quarterback is not coming my way. That's just the bottom line."

“If you guys just come up [to the film room] and watch me and watch where I’m at, where you think the ball’s supposed to be going, and it’s not going there. There’s a reason why it’s not going there,” Clinton-Dix said. “I’m telling you, I’m sitting on everything. I’m getting everything that comes my way.”

A review of every pass play from Sunday’s 31-28 loss at Pittsburgh -- all 46 of Ben Roethlisberger’s attempts -- all but confirms that not much has come his way. He had two realistic chances to make plays on the ball. One, the two-point play to Antonio Brown, was Clinton-Dix’s play to break up, but Brown squeezed past him for the conversion. The other was Brown’s 39-yard catch and run in the second quarter. Clinton-Dix, playing deep like he did most of the game, came from the opposite side of the field and either took a poor angle or overran the play.

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Dix is a pretty piss poor last line of defense.
I would want my last line of defense to be a fast vicious tackler.
Dix is neither!

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 

Dix is a pretty piss poor last line of defense.
I would want my last line of defense to be a fast vicious tackler.
Dix is neither!

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 

I very much disagree, I can picture a number of plays where the I thought it was going to be a touchdown and Dix is hustling to clean up someone else error to save the touchdown.

Your last line of defense needs to be an accurate tackler, let the SS and LBers be the vicious tacklers... as if their vicious hits (which normally include failing to wrap up) fails to get the offensive player down... you want the last line of defense to wrap up to make sure they get that guy down.

And normally when Dix completely misses a tackle, it's because he's being aggressive attacking underneath (where guys are behind him) as he goes for the vicious tackle and the ball carrier makes a move to make him miss.
Dix is soft and mostly avoids tackling.

I'm surely NOT saying Dix is great, but he usually plays smart and hard, which is what most coaches seem to want from a FS and last line of defense.

Originally Posted by: beast 

I wouldn't categorize Darren Sharper as a fast vicious tackler and he made a hell of a FS for a long time. I don't remember Nick Collins being a supper tackler either, though he did have the fast part down.

HaHa isn't Ed Reed, he isn't Darren Sharper, he isn't Nick Collins, but if we go back and look, the Nick Collins we remember wasn't the same Nick Collins in his first 3 years.

Originally Posted by: PackFanWithTwins 

Nick Collins was smart, he also learned how to film study from Charles Woodson and that's when he took off. Collins also had Deion Sanders-like closing speed. He'd have a 7 yard cushion gone in a blink. Deion had a 12 yard cushion gone in a blink.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool