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RockRam
I think that your assumption that our defense is "weaker" is incorrect.
We got better at FS.
We got better at OLB.
Peters played far better the last quarter of the year and in the playoffs.
We have some young guys still developing, to go with the vets.
I think our defense is fine and a Superbowl caliber.
If our O can only score 3 points in an entire game in the Superbowl, then I don't see how it can be thought that our O doesn't need improvement.
They lost Suh and Barron. They already proved they have no depth at CB (not counting the slot corner). Talib is not young. Peters already showed he's not their #1 CB--he can work if they use him right, but that's in tandem. Their free safety is good for a year, has slowed, and they don't have a replacement on the roster. They have no outside rusher, and cannot necessarily count on anything there with the guys they have. On DL they know for sure they have 2 guys but that means they don't know for sure if they have a 3rd (either NT or DE depending on where Brockers plays).
Going into 2020, they could have even less than that.
Given the Peters situation (he can't be their #1 corner), they have I think at most 4 players maybe they can count on both this year and next (barring injury)---Johnson, Littleton (though he is a FA next year), Donald, and Brockers (assuming Brockers returns to form).
(I mean MAYBE they can count on 4, not maybe they can count on Donald...they can count on Donald.) They don't know yet about Kiser or Franklin-Myers. We'll see on those 2. IF those 2 come through and they sign Littleton, they still need starting caliber guys behind Weddle, Matthews, and Talib, plus an edge rusher, but even if they got all that they would still be thin on the DL.
No one would describe the offense in terms like that. Not the skill players anyway. They could use some more OL.
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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2019 01:17PM by zn.
