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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1091043" data-attributes="member: 17953">Fans see plays that make a splash. The names of the players who make them are what they remember. In the NFL that's not a good way of judging how good a player is. Van Ness is a much better player than most people realize. He's not splashy so it appears he's doing very little. On the contrary, he's exceptionally good on maintaining containment to the outside and knows how to gain that outside leverage against one or even two blockers. That might not show as a stat on Monday, and it doesn't get his name called often but rest assured, the way he plays is instrumental on how well the defense plays. I'm not saying he's in the top 10, but I'm saying he's in the top 30 to 35. That's based on the intangibles that most fans never see because it isn't splashy.</blockquote>

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