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Jon McGraw was the starter at free safety during the portion of practice open to the local media. Jarrad Page was the backup. McGraw started for Page in Washington last Sunday when Page was inactive because of a sore shoulder.
McGraw was one of the better Chiefs defenders as they held Washington without a touchdown. McGraw had a sack, two other tackles for negative yardage and a knockdown of Washington quarterback Todd Collins.
McGraw and Brown do not deserve to start in this league!! Page is better than McGraw and Dejuan Morgan is better than Brown. The Redskins are trash that is why McGraw looked good. Put Dejuan Morgan in!! Brown's is not good!!! We are asking for trouble with these two bumbs starting. It is kind of scary that our linebackers are faster than our DBs. DJ and Demario are faster than those two!!
Cheflove
the 0-9 winless gm/hc duo '09...
Pollard and Page are carbon copies of each other. Both take bad angles, tackle heads down and don't wrap up. McGraw is sound fundamentally but won't occassionally blow someone up like Pollard or Page. Makes one wonder if Berry or Mayes make a lot of sense in the draft to replace two slower older safeties in Brown & McGraw.
This is a good move. I'm not knocking Page - I just think McGraw is playing smart, hard-nosed, hungry football. He made a bunch of great plays in the Redskins game and has been solid in each of the games this season.
Page just lost his starting position for good.
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This isn't about ability it's about attitude, McGraw has been with the Jets and the Lions before us and never made an impact, he's at the tail end of his career, a back up on any other team and is just like the rest of the crew Pioli has brought in (minus Cassel, who with the exception of 1 drive is still a ??). and all Pioli and Haley care about is blind faith in their "vision" of guys with fired up attitudes and hustle in practice. It's all mind games this year, that's it. We've scrapped together a bunch of Patriot retreads to patch together the season in hopes of drafting and signing more "like minded" individuals next year. We'll see but so far I'm just not seeing the personnel "genius" of the GM thus far, I'm seeing he can only tolerate people who kiss his tail.