It's just simply wearing this two guys after a significant contribution on both offense and defense. Not to mention on Cushing, the "Defensive Rookie of The Year" last year was totally awesome compare to no sack and 2-3 tackle and played on the middle against the Colts with a weak offensive line, was a big disappointment. Brown was also not the Brown that we are expecting to hold on the Colt's RT. Bad medicine can contribute to weakening the body!
Um, Cushing moved to a new position that requires a lot more pass coverage and reaction to the offense. You are not comparing apples to apples. Brown just came off a 4 week suspension and had to face one of the most dominant DE's of the decade
Yeah, I don't think you can infer anything from Brown's performance so far. Freeney is going to be a hard person to contain juice or not...and especially if they keep dropping back on 7 step drops over and over and over again with no help on his side. Cushing has looked much less dominant since he has been back, though. Very disappointing.
That's a problem. That's like compairing who can take the less stinky crap. Cushing was consistently making an impact play per game either by forcing a fumble, sack, or int. The only thing impactful I've seen him do so far is presure Eli Manning into throwing a pick to Kareem Jackson.
He pressured Manning a lot in that game. I'll give him a pass for this week, he was playing a position he has never played in his life
Listening to Pat Kirwan on Sirius NFL, Cushing was completely lost at the Mike and was abused by Manning. Kirwan made it clear that it was not a talent issue, but a new position/responsibility issue. He doesn't have the reads down well enough to be able to disguise what he is doing and Manning can at times read even the most experienced middle linebackers and other defenders defenders like a book and audible them out of the game, much less one who hasn't played the position since he played it part-time in college.
Cushing's doing fine, he'd be making more of an impact if Ryans was still in the middle. Brown looked horrendous Monday, but part of that is he needs to get his timing back. It's WAY to soon to start declaring these two dead.
Like I've been saying, its easy to attack Cushing but we'll never know (not this year anyways) if the estrogen supplement (lulz) he was busted for made him what he was because now he's out of position. For all we know it was Demeco Ryans that enabled him to wreak havoc and excel as an instinctive playmaker as opposed to an analytical one. He was out of game shape and now hes out of position. We'll see... we do know Cushing played plenty last season while being tested extensively and being coming up clean.
There is a big difference between playing ILB in goal line or short yardage situations with another ILB and playing MLB alone and captaining the defense
Has more to do with the idiotic decision to put him at MLB than anything else. What a stupid decision. Let's take our only impact player on the defense and put him in a position where he'll have no impact whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong? Hell, it worked on Madden 2011, it should work in real life too, right? Par for the course for Kubi"lack" and company.
In related news: Dick Butkus, Jack Lambert, Mike Singletary, Ray Lewis and Patrick Willis (not to mention Demeco Ryans) are shocked to learn they had no impact whatsoever.
