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Coleman talks tackle

Kurt Coleman talked to reporters for the first time since being benched. He described how, like Asomugha, he missed a tackle on Cruz's 78-yard jaunt, and it essentially cost him his starting job.

"I just didn't hit him as flush as I wanted to," Coleman said. "I hit him kind of on the side. If I hit him flush I think he would have gone down. But I didn't, and the rest is history."

Nate Allen replaced Coleman and is slated to start Sunday.
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Buckeneye;2002147; said:
Nnamdi missed the tackle too, I don't see him getting benched.

Like many of us said - always welcomed in Cleveland :biggrin:
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You really just compare Nnamdi and Kurt Coleman?

You realize there is something called a track record of performance..

Kurt has played mediocre this season and doesn't have a history in the NFL as a legit starter. He played the position okay last year due to injury and has struggled this season.
 
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I"m well aware of the comparison I've made. Benching someone for a missed tackle isn't a good way to help a young players confidence. And no I'm not necessarily saying the best CB in the league should be benched like a 2nd year starter.

Just pointing out - it was more the Kurt that had a terrible play.
 
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Buckeneye;2002757; said:
I"m well aware of the comparison I've made. Benching someone for a missed tackle isn't a good way to help a young players confidence. And no I'm not necessarily saying the best CB in the league should be benched like a 2nd year starter.

Just pointing out - it was more the Kurt that had a terrible play.
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Kurt wasn't benched solely because of that play. He was benched because his overall play hasn't been strong through three weeks
 
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LOOKING BACK AT THE TAPE

As I went back and re-watched the Buffalo game, there were some reasons to have hope. Safety Jarrad Page had a very bad game. He was put in position to make tackles on a handful of plays, only to miss or come in so wildly that he got out of position. Page was replaced by Kurt Coleman late in the game. Coleman did OK. If you could get Coleman to make the tackles that Page missed on Sunday, the defense is worlds different.

I know the counter to that. Coleman struggled early on and had the disastrous missed tackle against the Giants. How could you trust him? Coleman is a young player. Those guys are erratic. I think spending time on the bench had an effect on him. He really flew around the field in the fourth quarter on Sunday. Nate Allen played his best game of the year and one of the best of his young career. He showed no hesitation or issues with his knee. Maybe he's all the way back from his injury.

Let's be honest. Poor safety play has been as much of an issue as the linebacker struggles. If Allen can build off that game and Coleman can get back to where the Eagles thought he would be, suddenly the defense is much tougher. A lot of the big plays given up by the Eagles have been due to missed tackles and poor angles to the ball by the safeties.

Bad safety play plagued the Bears on Monday night. Chris Harris and Brandon Meriweather really struggled. I get asked why the Eagles didn't go sign a stud safety or make a trade. Right now, there are not 64 good safeties in the NFL. That is a position where a lot of players fail as they go from college to the NFL. I don't have a simple answer.

The Eagles remain high on Allen. He has the potential to be a Pro Bowl type of player. The other spot is more of a mystery. I was a big fan of Coleman's before he was even drafted. He played with an edge at Ohio State. That was lacking early in the year. He might have gotten it back on Sunday. I'm certainly hoping so.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Coleman gets nod over Page

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Two-year veteran Kurt Coleman gets the nod this weekend against Washington. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo)

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Kurt Coleman took the majority of first team repetitions at strong safety in place of Jarrad Page, who has struggled for much of the season.

While no one will quite say it, Coleman will start Sunday at Washington.

"I'll leave that for the coaches," Coleman said. "We'll see."

Rookie Jaiquawn Jarrett also took few first team reps, but he said it wasn't much more than he has over the last few weeks. Page was listed as a limited participant because of the stinger injury he suffered against the Bills Sunday.

Coleman started the season at free safety but was benched during the Giants game after he failed to wrap up receiver Victor Cruz. Nate Allen took his place.

"It did miss a tackle, but I gave it my all," Coleman said.

The safety positions, for the most part, are interchangeable
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c232scaynf4"]Kurt Coleman - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Posted: Thu, Oct. 13, 2011
Eagles Notebook: Kurt Coleman back in as starting safety for Eagles
BY LES BOWEN
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JARRAD PAGE suffered a stinger early in the third quarter Sunday at Buffalo. Came out for a few plays. Went back in. Later sat more snaps in favor of Kurt Coleman, maybe because every time the coaching staff looked up, Page was flailing in the wake of a Buffalo ballcarrier.

It was a brutal afternoon, and yesterday the expected consequence unfolded. Coleman, replaced by Page after missing a tackle that led to a 74-yard Giants touchdown on Sept. 25, was reinstated as a starting safety.

Page, a former seventh-round draft pick of the Chiefs who was a limited practice participant yesterday, said the stinger wasn't the problem in Buffalo.

"If you're out on the field, everything else is an excuse," he said. "If you're good enough to play, you're good enough to make all the plays."

It seems one of his problems might be that runners come rampaging into the secondary with a full head of steam, untouched by Eagles defensive linemen.

"I feel like if you're on the field and you have a chance to make plays, you've just gotta make 'em," he said.

Coleman was asked if he thought he should have been in the lineup all along.

"That's not my call," he said. "That's up for the coaches . . . They gotta put what they think is the right decisions to get us wins . . . JP got injured and I think they're just trying to make the best decisions, and this is it right now."

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Coleman Prepared For Re-Start
By Bo Wulf

For the first three weeks of the 2011 season, Kurt Coleman was a starter. During the Week 3 loss to the New York Giants, Coleman was replaced by fellow second-year safety Nate Allen and found himself watching from the sidelines when the defense was on the field until the fourth quarter in the Week 5 loss to the Buffalo Bills. Now, entering Sunday's do-or-die clash against the Washington Redskins, Coleman once again finds himself in a position to start, alongside Allen this time.

"This is the NFL and every day you have to fight for your job," Coleman said. "We're trying to get the best people on the field. So right now they've gone through a couple combinations and hopefully something's going to stick because we need to have continuity in the backfield. We have to start making some plays. The bottom line is if we make plays, we win the game."

While Coleman was frustrated that he wasn't able to contribute defensively for the last two weeks, he took the ostensible demotion as an opportunity.

"My body had a little chance to heal, but really it was an education point for myself," he said. "It brought me back down to ground and to know that anything can happen at any time. So when I go back out there, I think I'm going to have some extra fire out there and bring the wood to people.

"I know what I'm capable of doing. I know what I can and can't do on the field ... Obviously I wasn't exactly happy about it, but it is what it is and I continue to work hard and now I'm ready to get back out there."

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glRhUD_iizA"]S Kurt Coleman: Wk 6 vs Redskins- 2011 Eagles Season - YouTube[/ame]
 
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