Why is Nick Barnett on the field?

[MetroDrugUnit]

Barnett is not playing well because he is a small fast linebacker who plays to the strenghts of the D-Line. Well this year our D-Line has either Sucked, been Hurt or both. Our teams problems lie within the line of scrimmage. We can't block and we can't get off of a block

I don't buy it. Our D-Linemen hold the line. Great linebackers (ones that earn the kind of money that Barnett is earning now) shed and make plays in the hole. To the outside they take good angles and tackle near the line of scrimmage. I can deal with just taking him off the field on pass downs, but I cannot forgive him for consistently misreading plays against the run.

I didn't know he was a great linebacker. Besides, he'll never be the type that sheds blocks, he's a sideline to sideline guy not a big bruser like levon kurkland

[Balls2TheWalls]

I never said he was great. I'm saying he is getting overpaid. People at the position making his kind of money should be making those plays.

[Ill-yasova]

Nick barnett sucks at life.

[Balls2TheWalls]

Look at who has continued to be awful this week... Bench Nick Barnett.

[Simulack]

Wrong thread.

[MetroDrugUnit]

I never said he was great. I'm saying he is getting overpaid. People at the position making his kind of money should be making those plays.

Agreed, maybe we should actually spend some money of the O-Line insted of undersized linebakcers who normally have a short shelf life

[Jollay]

Just seriously, nobody start a Why is A-Rod or Aaron Kampman on the field thread, please...

Maybe I'm the only one, but I believe RealGM has special, mysterious powers.

[MadCityBucky]

Ok, then someone start a Why is Adrian Peterson on the field thread