Michael David Smith–and all Internet-savvy pigskin fans love them some MDS, right?–of Fan House and PFT was nice enough to quickly break down Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard for us. In his latest Every Play Counts feature (which is very interesting in its own right), he saw plenty of Bonecrusher because he went back and watched the entire Raiders game in order to study Darren McFadden. Here is what MDS had to say about Pollard:
What impresses me about Bernard Pollard is how active he stays. When Bears coach Lovie Smith evaluates his players on film, he says the worst thing he can see is what he calls “loafs” — plays when a player doesn’t go full speed until the whistle. I didn’t see Pollard have any loafs on Sunday. He goes full speed, until the whistle, on every play. There’s some luck, of course, in the fact that he forced a fumble and recovered two others, but I think it’s a sign of the way he was flying to the ball until the end of the play, on every play.
The one other thing I should mention is that part of the reason he was in on so many plays is that the Chiefs’ front seven didn’t have a very good game, and that meant there was a lot of slack for Pollard to pick up. But even if he’s not doing it on a very good defense right now, I think the 23-year-old Pollard is going to be a very good player for several years to come.
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