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Originally Posted by tmax63
let's see now, the defense sucked bawwllllls last year. They got a great safety, another safety, another corner, and a olb and a new d-coordinator.
Special teams sucked bawwlllllls last year. They got a couple of returners, one helps on defense and the other helps on offense as well.
Offense was horrible until JC emerged. They got a OG to help the line, a tight end and a back/returner/slot and an OC as well.
Did they solve all the problems? No. Too many problems for 1 offseason to fix. Steps in the right direction, I think so.
A far as Claussen goes, they had multiple chances to get him and didn't. I don't think it's an indictment of Pioli as much as CW saying he wasn't worth as much as some of the experts here seem to think he was. I'll go with CW on this one.
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There are just too many holes on this team to think that you were going to fix all of them. I have my doubts about some of the pics, but I do think the team got significantly better. We went in the to draft needing (in no particular order): WR, TE, OG, OT, NT, ILB, OLB, PR/KR, S, + bodies for special teams roles.
I'm hopeful that we now have long term fills at S, TE, KR/PR & OG.
NT: Ron Edwards is serviceable and maybe Shaun Smith can be serviceable in the rotation.
ILB: hopeful DJ can take this over and be a force here, but next to him?
OLB: Hali is a stud, but after that the drop is steep. Maybe Sheffield will surprise or Studebaker will have a miraculous offseason.
OT: eek!
WR: Chambers & Bowe, + McCluster in the slot. Not that good, but should be serviceable.
Pickup a serviceable RT and ILB in free agency (or have a miracle offseason improvement), and this team is maybe all the way up to average. Unfortunately Weigmann, Waters, Edwards, Chambers are all getting long in the tooth and shouldn't be counted on to man their spots for long.
d'oh! I momentarily fogot about Lilja signing, so OG wasn't as big a need as I thought.