It's not that we don't get tackling the guy so he doesn't score has value, we get that. The thing is good players don't get the bulk of their tackles downfield. This is a VERY old debate on this board or previous iterations. I remember this exact debate about Ron McKinnon and he hasn't been in the NFL since 2005.
Tackles without context is just as misleading as a guy scoring 25PPG on a bad NBA team. You might think he's a great player stuck on a bad team, and he might be. Or it might be that NBA games are 48 minutes long so the team is probably going to score 100 points and if you start, and shoot enough, you might score 25 PPG and have very little actual impact.
Reddick has improved I'll give him that but he's just not very good. If we're playing him out of position fine but so far he hasn't been very good at any position we tried him at. Watch the replays on the run plays we'll probably see it again tomorrow night, over and over you'll see him step left and then have to reverse and go right, you'll see him attack the wrong gap and take himself out of the play.he is making some plays now, we've seen pressure, tackles for loss, some breakups but he just doesn't have the instincts to play ILB in the NFL.
I genuinely think if he'd been a 4th rounder he'd probably have been tried at TE or FB by now he's a good athlete without a position.
Budda as a rookie was a terrific ST guy and he made some pop plays a S and I think we all sort of expected him to take over for Honey Badger, who was always injured, and do extremely well. Instead we've seen tons of examples of him getting completely lost in coverage, another huge one against the Saints. We've seen him slow to react to balls in the air, and we've seen that he's a guy that needs to be playing close to the LOS, which isn't what the team wanted him to do this year.
