Bart Scott says it's 'disrespectful' to compare Troy Polamalu to Ed Reed

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I'm gonna compare Bart Scott with Bryan Cox, just out of boredom. I hope he doesn't find that disrespectful, lol. Well, maybe Bryan might...

 

[murksiderock]

Lol he said u can’t compare Ed and Troy because they played the position differently. Nothing to do with who was better


He said u can compare rod woodson Charles Woodson with Ed Reed because they played the position in a similar way.

Reed did play like an all-around corner, and remember both Woodsons were corners most of their careers, who pulled spot duty at safety, before transitioning to safety at the end of their careers...

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Ed Reed was on another level as far as being a ball hawking safety..

Troy Polamalu was not better than Ed Reed I totally agree with Bart Scott

 

[DropTopDoc]

Ed Reed was on another level as far as being a ball hawking safety..

Troy Polamalu was not better than Ed Reed I totally agree with Bart Scott

it wasn’t about who was better, it was saying they were comparable

 

[Patrick Kane]

Ed is better and part of that is he was elite for longer but for many, many years Troy and Ed were known as the best safeties in the game and you wouldn’t be wrong in choosing either.

 

[Ironman]

Ed of course is better but no need to downplay the gawd of wavey hair. Ask many a players what time it was when they saw that shyt flapping in the wind coming towards them

 

[BaggerofTea]

Completely different playing styles though.

Cant even compare the two. I guess that what he was referencing.

 

[broller]

I'll have to go back and watch them again cause its been a minute, but in real time I just thought Reed could do more. Reed could play both safety positions and did, his ball hawking skills were on another level, his reaction time is All-Time shyt at that position, you could line him anywhere on the field because he was more versatile...

Thats my remembrance of how I saw them both in real time, but Troy was amazing. He had a lot more help in the defensive backfield that I recall too, Chris Hope and Ryan Clark were really good safeties...

Troy was really versatile the way dikk LeBeau used him.
To me versatility is very comparable between the two of them.
What separates Ed from Troy is the level at which he played coverage. That's why he is better in my mind.

As for the defensive help, I think Ed had some great defensive backfield help too with guys like Chris McAlister, Samari Rolle, Ladarius Webb and Jimmy Smith.

And to speak to Bart, I don't think the comparison is disrespectful.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

it wasn’t about who was better, it was saying they were comparable

Well they both played the same position.

Troy was a heating seeking missile who had great instincts..

Ed Reed was a better player I don’t know how else to compare without coming to the same conclusion

 

[Bennett80]

Troy>Ed

Ed benefited from playing with multiple hofers on defense.

 

[DropTopDoc]

Well they both played the same position.

Troy was a heating seeking missile who had great instincts..

Ed Reed was a better player I don’t know how else to compare without coming to the same conclusion

ed played at the top of the formation, it was rare Troy played the back half, he was the literal hybrid lb/db

 

[DropTopDoc]

Troy was really versatile the way dikk LeBeau used him.
To me versatility is very comparable between the two of them.
What separates Ed from Troy is the level at which he played coverage. That's why he is better in my mind.

As for the defensive help, I think Ed had some great defensive backfield help too with guys like Chris McAlister, Samari Rolle, Ladarius Webb and Jimmy Smith.

And to speak to Bart, I don't think the comparison is disrespectful.

this part, Troy wasn’t a liability, but Ed was a lot better, but i wonder if they asked him to do it more would we look at him differently

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

They were two different types of safeties.

reed had twice as many picks Troy had twice as many sacks and more tackles.


It really boils down to what type of defense you want to run. Reed would cost more.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

ed played at the top of the formation, it was rare Troy played the back half, he was the literal hybrid lb/db

Yeah Troy was more of a box safety and Ed was free.

The way he would read the QB though

Watching him on film with the All 22 was ridiculous

 

[DropTopDoc]

Yeah Troy was more of a box safety and Ed was free.

The way he would read the QB though

Watching him on film with the All 22 was ridiculous

i remember on an interview Ed said he lined up a certain way that was wrong to the formation for a few weeks so when he played Peyton he would read it one way, and Ed would react totally different, I’m like damn who thinks like that