Let me get this out of the way first: as a fan of this team, I absolutely love Keanu Neal and Ricardo Allen. Neal’s first two seasons showed a dynamic, hard-hitting player with coverage chops to boot. He was so fun to watch in those first few years, and I can still remember the hush coming over the Georgia Dome crowd when he hit Willie Snead so hard, many of us thought he had killed him.
Rico has been the kind of leader teams dream of. The once cut fifth round pick stunned us all when Dan Quinn moved him to free safety and he blossomed in the role.