It's about time this secondary starts producing

[jnday]

I would take Heath over Church right now..
What the hell has happened to Barry ?

Church was a borderline talent at best and age doesn't improve those types of players.

 

[Doomsay]

I don't know if PD is a good stat in regards to wins and losses.

Here are the top teams in terms of PD and their win-loss records:
Bills 3-3
Giants 3-3
Eagles 3-3
Texans 2-4
Chiefs 1-5
Raiders 2-3

I think that PD is good indication of a team's ability and likelihood of getting those all important interceptions. If they can't get close enough to tip passes they probably aren't getting too many interceptions other than deflections off of receivers.
Here are the 2014 Int and PD totals...pretty correlated, I think.

Int rank PD Rank Team
1 5 San Francisco 49ers
2 1 Cleveland Browns
3 2 Cincinnati Bengals
4 3 Houston Texans
5 9 Detroit Lions
6 8 Buffalo Bills
7 4 Denver Broncos
8 6 Green Bay Packers
9 12 Dallas Cowboys
10 18 Arizona Cardinals
11 10 New York Giants
12 15 Atlanta Falcons
13 16 New England Patriots
14 14 Carolina Panthers
15 23 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
16 25 Chicago Bears
17 26 Miami Dolphins
18 20 Seattle Seahawks
19 21 St. Louis Rams
20 22 Minnesota Vikings
21 7 Philadelphia Eagles
22 11 Indianapolis Colts
23 17 Tennessee Titans
24 24 New Orleans Saints
25 13 Baltimore Ravens
26 28 Pittsburgh Steelers
27 27 Oakland Raiders
28 29 San Diego Chargers
29 31 Washington Commanders
30 19 Kansas City Chiefs
31 30 New York Jets
32 32 Jacksonville Jaguars

Includes blocks at the LOS.

 

[The Natural]

No.

The players you're describing don't exist. There is no such thing as playing man defense and "following the eyes of the QB" without getting beat routinely.

Patrick Peterson did this last night and I called it out in the MNF thread, Wish i had video. It's a myth that DB's cant follow the Qb while having awareness of where the man is that they are covering.

 

[Future]

Patrick Peterson did this last night and I called it out in the MNF thread, Wish i had video. It's a myth that DB's cant follow the Qb while having awareness of where the man is that they are covering.

Playing a bump and run trail technique is a lot different than "having awareness of where the man is."

You can do that if you're playing off-man, you can't in tighter coverage.