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Originally Posted by RedThat
It is a lot of stuff, and you know, this a team that were just gonna have to be patient because of the amount of holes to filled its gonna take a while. But, I think the key for them is to address the key positions right now.
If they get a really good NT, it'll help the run defense quite a bit. Even though, Mays and Williams are a problem, their job would be a lot easier with a good NT in there. Get a passrusher, and the CB's and safeties jobs are a lot easier. Yup even if that means living with McGraw and Brown for another year. As painful as that is to say, its possibly the best we can hope for.
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Thing is, you didn't say get a passrusher, you said get two...
I worry more about Vrabel than Hali, and I worry more about Mays and Williams than either of them. This defense got destroyed up the middle, and I don't think adding two outside pass rushers solves that.
I do agree that NT would be a huge help, although I don't think it has to be a high draft pick solution. I'd look in free agency first, find somebody to knock Edwards from the starting lineup down to a rotation player.
I think Brown has to be replaced. They just can't afford to have that kind of target in the pass defense. I don't think that means that Berry must absolutely be the pick, however, although he's an obvious answer.
And I've said this before, but I think adding a player like Rolando McClain could have an enormous impact on the defense. He's a heady linebacker with great size and speed, the kind of field general that this team hasn't had in the decade I've watched, and he comes from the 3-4 in college to boot. I think he could have the kind of impact on this d that Urlacher did for Chicago. But, that said, 5 is damned high for taking a MLB.
Anyway, my perfect scenario would be Berry or McClain early, a WR and a rush linebacker in the second, a center and a guard somewhere in the 3rd-5th range, then NT and whichever position we didn't draft early (S or LB) from free agency, along with whatever else they need.