I think playing as a CB is probably the worst position in terms of publicity. Here are the reasons:
1. If you do a great job then no one will ever notice because the QB will never throw the ball in your direction
2. The only way for people to think you're really good is to get some INT's and unless you're doing zone the only way to get a chance is to have the QB think he can beat you.
3. Whenever your team loses it's generally everyone's fault, but chances are you will take a lot of the blame
I didn't watch the game, but if Clements hasn't been thrown on very much throughout the game.
http://nfl.com/gamecenter/live/NFL_20061015_BUF@DET
There's a link, Kitna probably threw 29 passes to non-RB/FB's, assuming he can hit a RB in the backfield consistantly, so if Clement's was only thrown on 5 times or less, he probably did a good job. I don't want to pay him 8 million dollars to do that, but frankly this is a team game, I can't see any reason why Crowell, Fletcher, and Spike should not have taken any blame for this, I think Clements came off as a jerk last year and as a result it's much easier to target him. Yeah Clements doesn't have an int, but niether does McGee our so called new playmaker. Marv is not an idiot and he wouldn't pay for Nate Clements to stay if he was incompetant, we all know that. If Nate is as sucky as you say he will be gone next year, but frankly I think there are a lot of people on this team who deserve just as much flack as him for this game, if not more.