Yup and your entire claim has been
"oh i know so much, I have all 22 films, I use to play CB, and I pulled up these stats"
That does not make your opinion more valid, sorry bud. There are paid experts who still don't know what they are talking about. Let me listen to a guy "claiming" on a cowboys message board.
Deal with it. Hadens better.
Uh, yeah it does. I backed up my opinion with facts and an assesment. You just keep repeating an opinion without any basis. It's really not that difficult to see why one has more validity/credibility than the other.
Forums are about discussions, sharing and ultimately learning-- ya know... keeping an open mind? Not for criticizing other posters. But if you're going to go around bagging on other people's opinions and insulting them, at least bring something of substance to the table in retort. Otherwise you just come off as foolish, and you're better than that.
But if you want more validity? Here goes...
While Haden is the superior athlete who shows flashes of elite, shutdown potential, he just isn't as savvy of a player. He has ideal traits for a corner, but either doesn't trust his skills or trusts his skills too much and often ends up over committing, or overplays routes and surrenders enough field to where no amount of athleticism would allow him to recover. And he often wastes motions which negate his quickness and sometimes even completely lose sight of his receiver. This is where Flowers is truly elite. He just has superior balance and intellect that allow him to adjust more rapidly on the fly. He rarely loses his receiver or the QBs gaze because he keeps the field in front of him. He snaps his head around at the right times, and if he's in a bad position he uses his balance to whip his body back into position without wasted motions.
Most importantly, he's just more consistent with his coverage because he does things the right way. The guy moves like an elite corner on a large majority of his snaps, whereas with Haden does not-- at least not yet.
Overall Flowers has more success on a per snap percentage, and takes his man completely out of the equation more often than Haden resulting in better stats across the board that are relative to the success of a CB. This was against a lot of the same competition since the browns and chiefs had such similar schedules last year. And Flowers did better against every single common receiver that they played against. Every. Single. One.
And yes, I could elaborate and further articulate why I feel that Flowers is better.
.
