What's Up With Curry?

What we brought Curry in for was to be an anchor of the defense for many years to come. Mora has said that they are trying to bring him along for just that purpose.

Remember that Curry is only 22 years old. Now this will probably offend many Addicts, but 22 year-olds are still punks. That's right, punks. So every 22 year old who reads this; you are still punks. That holds true for Curry. If his coaches think that they need to ease up on him a little bit, then good for them.

I believe most of the problem lies with the coaching staff. What is wrong with using a talented rookie LB as a LINEBACKER?! Why are they always changing things, keeping thier scheme complex and trying to use him as some jack of all trades wonderboy?

Look, through the first 5 games Curry looked to be a rookie of the year candidate. Since then, he's disappeared. He's the same player now he was then, only more experienced. Since our defense hasnt improved much with Bradley's constant changing, maybe it wouldnt hurt to simplify things, and let Curry's freakish athleticism make plays, rather than tyring complicated schemes that do us little good anyway.

I was all for hiring a young up-and-comer at OC and DC. Bradley, however, seems clueless. Not even Detroit is giving up 17 points in the first quarter to Arizona. No matter how complicated our schemes, no matter how many we blitz, no pressure is exerted.

Why not use Curry as a OLB and occasionally--like 3-4 plays a game, rush him? When we did that with Peterson his first year here, it worked great alternating LB's on the blitz. The SS covered for the blitzing LB, and since we rarely blitzed the same LB twice in a row, teams could just assign a RB to block the blitzer.

When we got cute with JP and had him doing all kinds of stupid stuff, it went flat. Our defense suffered. To me, the problem is Bradley. He's pulling a John Marshall, and honestly, I think Marshall would have done better with this years defense--his problem was he had no beef on the line, same problem Dwayne Board, our ex-DL coach had.

Right now, Im wishing Board was still here. I still dont want Marshall back by any means, but Bradley is having a disastrous rookie year at DC.

Curry has the athelticism to cover backs or TE's man to man, so why do we always run a zone? Let the rookie play football, stop making him think so much!

Besides, it isnt like Curry is dumb. If he is having trouble with his assignments, its probably a big warning sign to the coaching staff--or should be--that they need to simplify.

I still think Curry is a player worth two first round picks and I am glad we have him. Its the staffs fault for not utilizing him correctly.

I'm not at all worried about Curry. It's perfectly understandable that a 23 year old might be emotionally and physically exhausted at this stage of his life after all the changes he's been through. If he's still getting fatigued in the middle of the season in 2010 and 2011, then you've got a problem.

"Trent Dilfer said the other day that the solution for this crappy team is for the coaching staff to just absolutely beat the living hell out of these players week-in, week-out."

That's why Dilfer is a talking head and not a coach. This isn't high school. The vast majority of these players are self-motivated professionals. What does he think making Matt Hasselbeck and Deon Grant run extra windsprints is going to accomplish? Let's not hear any more of this nonsense.

I've read the comments and I agree to some degree. Gus Bradley is probably a good LB coach at best. He seems to be clueless and the players seem to be out of position and lacking enthusiam. There's talent on this team we just need it to be directed properly. Beef up the DL and get bigger at corner. Curry would be best suited in either a 3-4 defense or as a standup outside LB in a 4-3. Like that of which Lawrence Taylor. Where you take alot of the think out and allow the athlete to shine. Turn him loose! He will be fine.

Bradley is to Mora's team what the offensive coordinator was to Holmgren's team; an assistant. Mora runs the defense.

that Curry has not had the impact this year that we were hoping for. However, Rookies need to learn and I don't see the logic in taking him off the field. He needs every rep he can get. I will say that I think his talent is better served in a 3-4 vs a 4-3 but that is another discussion.

It can be *very* difficult to tell whether a football team is suffering from poor coaching or poor talent. If you see guys always out of position on defense, or making lots of mistakes and outsmarted on offense, you know it's bad coaching, but other than that, how do you tell? And we are not really seeing guys out of position, outsmarted and making mistakes, are we?

Football fans tend to over blame their coaches because they get pumped up about the "potential" of individual players and then when that potential doesn't pan out they assume it must be the coaching.

I hope they've tested Curry for a thyroid problem. Seems strange that he is suffering from excessive fatigue considering the extraordinary athlete he's supposed to be.

Hey,

I partially agree, perhaps you should check out my article on why Aaron Curry was the wrong pick.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/296072-was-aaron-curry-the-right-pick-a-look-back-at-the-4th-overall-pick

and comment or something.. It takes your article (which was good) a step further and brings hard data into it all. Curry was a huge f*ck up, and I hope to hear from you.

Regards
-S

When he was holding out of training camp. I was none to happy about that and wanted to see him now prove himself. He's not proving anything. He is steadily earning the title of BUST.

Lets see if he has what it takes to turn it around and earn some respect back while he makes all that fat guaranteed money.