Baltimore Ravens DT Haloti Ngata credits Top 100 NFL Players ranking to team efforts – NFL News
Baltimore Ravens’ defensive tackle, Haloti Ngata, in a rare show of humility has played down his selection among the top 100 players in the league, saying his efforts were a part of teamwork that mattered in Ravens overall defence strength,
while the ranking is based on individual achievements, which, he said, he does not have.
Some of the players are noted to be wrongly rated and placed in the "The Top 100: Players of 2012" recently released by the National Football League (NFL), but Haloti, who is ranked at No. 9 overall and as the third-best defenseman, is
not among such cases. His ranking has been weighed to be the right fit to his profile and form.
The player himself does not agree to this, though. He says the Ravens’ defence is a teamwork and should have been rated and weighed in the same perspective.
He said:
"I don't think I'm the best Ravens player. The way we play together on this defence, we make each other better. I couldn't do what I do without (Terrell) Suggs and Ray (Lewis). It's the same thing with those guys; they can't do what they
do without us. I don't think there is a best player. We have so many good players and that's the recipe to a great defence."
A number of commentators, while appreciating the sense of humility Ngata has shown, do not think his rating was out of his performance or profile context.
They agree that the player no doubt rates better than Ed Reed and other players. As a matter of fact, they see his competitors going further down on the ranking chart a year after.
Ravens have extensively relied on their defence for their performance and victories. It is probably the hallmark of Harbaugh brothers’ strategy; they extensively rely on the defence, suffocating oppositions’ attack line before scoring
on the turnovers.
Even though the team has switched some focus on the offence this year, bringing in a fulltime quarterbacks coach, the game of players like Ngata will matter the most in their defensive effort.
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