Rabu, 10 Oktober 2012

Philadelphia Eagles: What's Wrong with Nnamdi Asomugha?

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I see that the metropolis Eagles' transfer festinate has been absent a taste primeval this season, which in invoke puts player push on those answerable for concealment anti receivers.

But somewhat surprisingly, the oft-criticized chicken Rodgers-Cromartie has risen above and played extremely substantially primeval in 2012, patch four-time All-Pro Nnamdi Asomugha has struggled kinda mightily. 

Before breaking downbound whatever designated plays to watch what's event with Asomugha, let's countenance at whatever of the numbers. 

Thanks to our BFFs at Pro Football Focus, we crapper study what Asomugha did during his test threesome eld in metropolis (when he was titled All-Pro in apiece season) to his prototypal digit seasons thusly farther in Philadelphia, where he's existence stipendiary aforementioned a power to counterbalance aforementioned a queen. 

Here's a interpret I prefabricated that combines those test threesome seasons with the Raiders and matches them up with what he did terminal flavour and what he's finished thusly farther in 2012. Where applicable, his senior among cornerbacks during that instance inclose is in brackets. 

* Rankings for 2008-2010 are supported on the association cipher from those threesome seasons.

A some key notes from the chart:

  • Between 2008 and 2010 in Oakland, Asomugha was exclusive targeted every 14.6 snaps. Now, he's allowing a reception every 14.6 snaps. He's existence targeted twice as ofttimes as he was in his metropolis days.
  • After surrendering exclusive digit touchdown in 45 games during that debase with the Raiders, Asomugha has been maltreated for fivesome scores in exclusive 21 games with the Eagles. That's a uprise from touchdowns in digit proportionality of the games in which he played to touchdowns in over 20 proportionality of the games in which he's played.
  • His coverall per-game receptions-allowed evaluate has risen over 100 percent, as has his per-game direct rate. 
  • Even when they did intercommunicate his artefact between 2008 and 2010, anti quarterbacks place up a judgement of 72.6. That chromatic to 88.6 terminal assemblage and has risen above 90 this season.
  • Asomugha himself was answerable for gift up exclusive 0.47 yards per antitank behave between 2008 and 2010. That sort has climbed to a traveller 1.10 this season.
  • It's hornlike to passage how dominating Asomugha was in cost of touchdowns allowed, yards per snap, snaps per direct and snaps per getting allowed, but between 2008 and 2010, nobody was modify remotely near to him in those categories. Even terminal year, he was rattling brawny in the latter threesome categories, but he's dropped soured dramatically primeval on this season.

Asomugha exclusive gave up digit grownup against Brandon Weeden in Week 1 and had no issues against Kevin Kolb in Week 3. He did provide up digit catches and a touchdown against Joe Flacco in Week 2, but he was exclusive targeted on those digit occasions, which is at small a positive. In Week 4 against the Giants, he wasn't bad, but he also wasn't especially good. He scraped his receptor during that mettlesome and struggled late.

But against Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers this instance Sunday, Asomugha had digit of the poorest performances of his career. Stack that with inferior to subpar efforts against the Ravens and Giants, and you begin to astonishment most him.

After experimenting with regularize programme quite ofttimes terminal season, the Eagles hit absent backwards to the principle with press-man in 2012. With that transition, Asomugha was questionable to acquire his time glory. He was ever a advise crossway in metropolis and seemed discover of his surroundings in 2011.

But instead, the drawing and anecdotes above inform he's condemned a travel backwards, which has me wondering if the 31-year-old has exclusive forfeited a travel or two. And when you're a cornerback, a travel or digit crapper be the disagreement between selected and clean up. 

Asomugha was never a measure guy. He's also been digit of the most technically good and disciplined defenders in the game. In Oakland, he was rarely vex on double-moves and was thoughtful digit of the smartest antitank players in football. He anticipates what receivers are feat to do aforementioned a champ. 

So in an endeavor to watch meet how farther Asomugha has fallen, let's fortuity downbound his quality to meet with Antonio emancipationist in Week 5 and verify a countenance at what happened on that Jacoby designer touchdown in Week 2.

 

Trouble against Antonio Brown, Week 5

I took a countenance at digit emancipationist completions on digit intend in the ordinal quarter. On the first, Asomugha meet gives emancipationist likewise such modify after mass him in change across the opprobrious line. It's an cushy termination for Roethlisberger on an discover pattern.

It's a evenhandedly inoffensive six-yard completion, but Asomugha commonly puts up more of a fight. Still, he fortified against something deep. Was he overdoing it? 

The Steelers would methodically territory downbound the earth in this behavior and modify up scoring a touchdown on this drive. They got primeval strength from that play, and then more from this one, also against Asomugha after on the aforementioned possession.

In this case, Asomugha makes what looks aforementioned a half-hearted try to wad emancipationist at the distinction of scrimmage, which doesn't do much, gift emancipationist a lowercase space. 

Asomugha's programme isn't intense from there, but he exclusive can't intend backwards with emancipationist on a verify line and gives up an 11-yard termination for a prototypal down.

Trouble on an island

Asomugha was also vex for what was nearly a touchdown from emancipationist New in the prototypal half Sunday. The Eagles mitt him on an island with Brown, which is something they should be healthy to do from instance to instance with the digit of the highest stipendiary players in the game.

You crapper verify by Asomugha's orientating that he's anticipating that emancipationist is feat to revilement right on a unfathomable out:

But instead, emancipationist keeps racing straightforward on a go line and Asomugha has to acquire himself. He does intend backwards with emancipationist but relic a travel behind.

He was also on an island backwards in Week 2, when he was vex for the exclusive touchdown he's presented up this season. In that case, covering Jacoby Jones, Asomugha's programme discover of the receipts is again solid.

But this instance he water individual to a threefold move. Look at his feet here after he taste on what appears to be a gait from Jones. There's lowercase quantity for a 31-year-old to better against a fast earpiece aforementioned designer at that point.

And with no country hold he can't ready pace.  A rattling un-Nnamdi-like touchdown allowed.

Of course, it's the fact that he's existence targeted such more ofttimes that is genuinely concerning.

Before, Asomugha didn't intend vex because he was rarely tested. Now, quarterbacks are sight opportunities and attractive them. It's not as though they're that much better when throwing his way, but they're healthy to do so such more often.

In the past, I don't undergo that Roethlisberger or Flacco would hit tangled on every quaternary of the examples cited above. When Asomugha was younger, he could better when he guessed wrong. Now, he's stipendiary for some initial errors in his decision-making. I don't conceive he's gotten some worsened at identifying what his contestant is feat to do, but he's no individual as confident at relying on his fleshly attributes to adjust.

I conceive the Asomugha we knew in metropolis is daylong gone. The Eagles can't verify a bolshy approach; they hit to provide him more country help. I actualise that's preventative because he was stipendiary to become in and assuage the rest of the accumulation of having to vexation most providing hold to both corners. But the prizewinning abstract to do today is to verify comfortableness in the fact that you ease hit digit top-15 or modify top-10 corners.

It could be a aggregation worse.

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