Official "Should we be worried about DeMeco Ryans?" thread

You got to give the guy another year. It typically takes over a year to fully heal from the type of injury he had.

If his play stays the same the following year we got to cut him.

 

His injury was pretty severe and a lot of the "medical opinions" that were given said he would take more than a year to get back, if ever. He's been slow laterally since pre-season. I think it is possible that he never gets back to being what he was.

He's another guy we may be looking at cutting or restructuring after the season. Football is such an unforgiving sport.

 

I think maybe they swap the roles of Cush and Demeco. Cushing will have more sideline to sideline duties and have Demeco attack the LOS more, where he won't have to move laterally as much.

He definitely looked slow trying to chase down Ringer.

 

Not yet.

 

Demeco was doing a lot of pass coverage and based on how many yards they had receiving I think he did a fine job.

 

You're kidding right?

 

If we gave Dushing another year to prove he was legit ( which he is) why not give that to DeMeco?

 

If we have someone on the bench that can play better than DeMeco, then that person should be playing now. Before his injury it seemed like he was flying all over the field, getting involved in tons of plays, now we hardly know he is on the field. I know we are running a different defense, and I haven't done any in depth analysis of his play, but I just don't see him making plays.

 

He's fine. Cushing played out of his mind. Ryans had a great game at New Orleans, this was just a quiet day. He's going to have them.

http://www.nfl.com/player/demecoryans/2506888/gamelogs

 

If the defense was playing bad, yes I would worry because he's suppose to be a main cog but as a unit the defense has been pretty good especially the front 7. He might not have showed up in the stat sheet but he's made plays all year. He's not up to the pre-injury Demeco level yet but the way we shut out the Titans and how statistically improved our defense is, it points to signs that guys are doing their jobs including him.

 

The Titans had 48 plays to the Texans 70. Our highest tackler today was Cushing with 6. I'm not worried about 0 tackles. Especially when their run game was getting disrupted behind the line of scrimmage all day. Does anyone not remember him jumping Flacco's snap last week? He gets a pass this year.

 

I think he's still recovering.

 

Umm...we can take away the "he's still injured" excuse when he's fully recovered? Makes sense to me.

 

Seriously - we as fans tend to grossly underplay the long term effects of major, career-altering injuries when they happen and expect our guys to simply get over them and return 100% each time....and heap blame and scorn on them when they don't.

Ryans may never regain his original quickness and burst, efforts notwithstanding. I'm not going to get down on him over it, I'm going to be happy he was able to retake a starting position at all.

 

Cut him now, and put that hungry, Miami boy in there....

 

N.D. Kalu said that Demeco is being phased out and is sitting out for much of the game. That he's a very good player, but not a fit in a 3-4. Suggested that he probably wouldn't be with the team next year.

 

I heard that too, but I'm a little skeptical. Demeco is a smart player, with great vision and lateral speed*. That kind of player should be a good MLB in a 4-3, 3-4, 4-2-5, 4-4, 50, whatever. It seems like Cushing is a natural for the 3-4, and Demeco might not be, but there's nothing in Demeco's game that suggests he couldn't make it work.

* - He did have great lateral speed. I'm not sure that's true anymore. Maybe it's gone forever, maybe it'll come back. Either way, this new reduced Demeco Ryans is still a legit NFL starter. If it comes back, he'll be back to the guy who's in on every play.