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Reshad Ready To Prove He's A Top Safety

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Reshad Jones hasn’t received the accolades you’d expect for a player who considers himself the best safety in the NFL.

He’s never earned a Pro Bowl berth.

Nike doesn’t sell his jersey — you have to buy a custom version or a bootleg from China.

Yet, he played as well as any safety in the league last year after returning from an early-season suspension. And he says that’s nothing new.

“I’ve been doing it for the last three years,” he said. “If you look at all the top safeties and you look at their numbers and you look at mine, you tell me — what’s the difference?”

Jones has a point. In two of the last three seasons, he’s been graded by Pro Football Focus as the third-best safety in the NFL.

Last season, he believes, should have been the one that he finally received the Pro Bowl berth. But before the season, he failed a performance-enhancing drug test and was suspended for four games.

Jones said he never intentionally took anything that violated the league’s substance abuse policy. But he was “trusting the wrong people.”

“I took full responsibility for it,” Jones told the Palm Beach Post. “I’ve never been on steroids or anything like that, performance enhancing drugs or whatever.

“I took something three times from one of my old trainers from college. He gave me something for post-workout just to help me recover, he told me. But evidently it didn’t abide by the rule for the NFL.”

Jones was crushed when he found out he’d miss the first four games of the season, and he broke ties with the trainer.
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You saw the hunger in his eyes when he got back,” safety Michael Thomas said. “That’s why he was immediately making an impact on our defense, immediately making plays, getting picks — ‘cause when the game’s taken away from you, you miss it, you feel that. It was unfortunate that he had to miss those four games, but it helped him.”

In 12 games, Jones had 79 tackles — 12 less than Jacksonville’s John Cyprien, who led the league in tackles for a safety. Jones also had three interceptions and three touchdowns.
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Jones said there aren’t many safeties as versatile as him.

“I can come up in the box and be like a linebacker, or I can go in the back end and make plays on the ball,” he said. “I think that’s a plus. Everyone doesn’t have that tool — to be versatile, to come down and defend the run and make plays on the ball, be a ballhawking safety.”
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People have been sleeping on me since I got in the league,” he said. “But I can only control what I can control. I’ve got to go out and continue to do what I do and do all the things I can to help this team win.”
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s...had-jones-out-to-prove-hes-top-safety-/nnQ8X/
 
He sure goes under the radar... that DL should get him a lot of errant throws, and he's plenty capable of reaping the benefits.
 
Dolphins should give him an extension to keep him around until he is about 31-32, but drop his cap number in 2016 way way down.
 
He makes a very valid point. With Grimes and Wake he sometimes goes overlooked, but that shouldn't happen this year. Hope he gets the recognition he deserves.
 
I'll be honest, I was one of his doubters in the early years. He's turned into an excellent player for us, and I like that a little disrespect keeps him hungry.
 
I've never been a big fan of Jones. I hope he has a great year but he has way too many limitations to be considered a top safety in the NFL.
 
Jones is another kid that's done everything RIGHT and is a very solid piece in a championship matrix.

Yes, you heard it here first!

I gotta Stupid Bowl jones!

Oh yea baby!

BNF.
 
Jones is everything you want in a leader on your D.
He steps his game up and plays angry vs division rivals.
 
hooshoops said:
As a strong safety hes one of the best in the game
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If Miami had a good LB corps Reshad would be even better. He makes too many clean-up tackles that LBs miss -- and has to support run more than he should. With good LBs he would be set free to soar, imo.

Miami's LB corps -- just have to smh so far in pre-season and last year.

LD
p.s. what I mean by that is that he may have less tackles but more impact plays and INTs.
 
Really happy for Reshad for becoming one of our best players on the team. So solid. I'm really hoping that Aikens/Thomas can protect the deep ball and let Reshad roam around and lay the wood.
 
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