Beware of the Bigs
By Dale Z on Sep 14, 2008 with 8 Comments
Most fans know it. Al Harris can’t hang with big and strong receivers. Against regular sized receivers, Al Harris is one of the best in the business.
He’s strong and wiley. However, against guys bigger and stronger than him, he’s just about useless.
Our defense is one of the best in the leagues, but our defensive backs worry me, and shockingly enough, it’s not the young guys. It’s Al Harris. Last year’s playoff game against then Giants brought Harris’ weakness to the forefront. If he isn’t bigger and stronger than the WR, he will be beat. Plaxico Burress knew it, and exploited it.
The Lions TRIED to exploit it in the first half, but couldn’t hang on to the ball. That’s understandable when Atari “spider monkey” Bigby is bearing down on you. Whoops. Then something happened. Bigby got a little banged up and left the game. Suddenly it was just Collins back there to lay the wood and the Lions didn’t respect it. It showed during the Lions touchdown pass to 38 yd TD pass to Calvin Johnson. Rouse, the replacement, missed a tackle after Tramon Williams decided we were playing two hand touch. Uh-Oh.
Al Harris and Charles Woodson. Who can beat that, right? Well, a lot of people apparently. Reputation only gets you so far. Charles Woodson stepped up in week two and made PLAYS. Woodson got a pick six and resulted in a T.D. that forced me to make a patented Packerslounge.com touchdown shot. Al Harris just shook his dreads around a little. Yeah, nice hair. Now make a play.
Next week we play the Cowboys, with Owens as their main wide receiver. Are you ready, Al? Odds are they try to move him as much as possible so YOU are the man who covers him. They’re on to you. We’re all on to you. Can you step up and answer the call? As a Packers fan, I sure hope so. Make them pay, Al.
The one person who has the biggest say on whether the Packers start 3-0 or 2-1 is Al Harris. You can do it, Al. Make the plays. We need you to. Good luck.
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I agree, Al needs to have the game of his life next week. I got faith in ya Al.
I disagree with most of this assessment. If Harris can’t handle big receivers, why has he been shutting down Roy Williams for three years now? Williams didn’t do much today, and his biggest gainer was on a play when Harris was not guarding him (unfortunately, neither was anybody else). Harris did get called for a pass interference penalty, which looked like a phantom call to me.
And I don’t understand how you can gripe at him for not making a play. He made plenty of plays earlier in the game, and toward the end, Kitna pretty much gave up throwing the ball in his direction. Woodson got beaten for a TD by Johnson, but then fortunately made up for it with the interceptions.
We have two really good CB’s. It’s one of our strongest positions. Not much to gripe about there.
You will have to yell at Tromadz about that one. He still has not gotten over the NFC Championship game.
I think losing BIgby in the back, had a larger role to play in the second half than anyone is giving credit for.
“If Harris can’t handle big receivers, why has he been shutting down Roy Williams for three years now?”
Because he’s not very good?
Hey, Al Harris against TALENTED big WRs makes me nervous is all. But that’s me. I hope he proves me wrong in the future, starting next week with Owens.
Al Harris is gonna punch in the balls trom.
that should say punch you in the balls, trom. sorry for the typo guys, and sorry trom’s balls. i’m drunk.
Losing Bigby did seem to hurt. This is the first time Aaron Rouse has played where he seemed like a liability out there. I thought he was hurt and was not even going to suit up for the game, so maybe he wasn’t at full speed.
That’s a good point Greg. I thought I read somewhere he wasn’t going to dress at first either.