Wow really Bandit your going to bash Sherman for getting trucked by McDonald? I always read your takes and they are 99.9 percent informative and usually spot on. Your so off base with Gilmore or maybe your just defending him because that's what you had done in the past. Gilmore is not a lockdown cover guy. No one really is anymore. Ok. Fine. The problem comes in with Gilmore that the other teams know he is so bad at tackling they often go around him, over him, and through him. Couple that in with his lack of passion on the field and he is a liability on this defense. He simply has not shown the effort or want to consistently. Players like Gilmore are why you get gashed for 200 yard games, they simply don't care to get their nose dirty.
Is he the biggest problem? Far from it. Is he going to be worth the money? In the right surroundings his value would be much better. Heck opposite Sherman, or a Talib etc. Someone that could get him to play football ALL THE TIME and get DIRTY. Earl Thomas and Sherman would get that fixed. Right now Gilmore is a cupcake in a box with 10 or so others. This team can't afford to pay premium money for another cupcake.
Press the reset button, find some guys that want to play football. Sorry, not trying to come off as a d*** but the passive play when I want attitude and lack of physicality stands out each and every Sunday. Put him on a beastly D where he can follow someone else's lead.