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<blockquote data-quote="FrankRizzo" data-source="post: 303433" data-attributes="member: 2232"><p><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/The-rise-and-fall-of-Shawne-Merriman?urn=nfl-276809" target="_blank">The rise and fall of Shawne Merriman - Shutdown Corner - NFL - Yahoo! Sports</a></p><p></p><p><strong>THE GOOD:</strong></p><p>Given the last two-plus years of injury/invisibility, plus all of his non-football issues -- the steroid suspension, the thing with Tila Tequila, the dumbest celebratory dance in sports history -- it's easy to forget how good Merriman was. Thirty-nine and a half sacks in three years? That's a Hall of Fame pace, easy. And a lot of those 39.5 sacks came against double-teams and opponents scheming against him. Merriman was an absolute game-changer, and from the second he entered the league, one of its most dominant players.</p><p></p><p><strong>THE BAD:</strong></p><p>Based on his 2009 season, the physical dominance seems to have left him. He played in 16 games, but had just four sacks and 26 tackles. But he wasn't completely healthy, either. He hadn't fully recovered from reconstructive knee surgery, and wasn't anywhere near the same player. So far in 2010, he's mostly been sidelined with more leg injuries. A player who's been injured? Sounds like a perfect match for the Packers right about now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrankRizzo, post: 303433, member: 2232"] [url=http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/The-rise-and-fall-of-Shawne-Merriman?urn=nfl-276809]The rise and fall of Shawne Merriman - Shutdown Corner - NFL - Yahoo! Sports[/url] [B]THE GOOD:[/B] Given the last two-plus years of injury/invisibility, plus all of his non-football issues -- the steroid suspension, the thing with Tila Tequila, the dumbest celebratory dance in sports history -- it's easy to forget how good Merriman was. Thirty-nine and a half sacks in three years? That's a Hall of Fame pace, easy. And a lot of those 39.5 sacks came against double-teams and opponents scheming against him. Merriman was an absolute game-changer, and from the second he entered the league, one of its most dominant players. [B]THE BAD:[/B] Based on his 2009 season, the physical dominance seems to have left him. He played in 16 games, but had just four sacks and 26 tackles. But he wasn't completely healthy, either. He hadn't fully recovered from reconstructive knee surgery, and wasn't anywhere near the same player. So far in 2010, he's mostly been sidelined with more leg injuries. A player who's been injured? Sounds like a perfect match for the Packers right about now. [/QUOTE]
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