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Originally Posted by alanm
Honest question Mecca, The Chiefs finished 13th in total defense last year. I expect them to be a top 10 defense this year. In fact it's not outside the realm to think that they could end up a top 5 defense with the addition of Dorsey, Flowers and Morgan and when they get up to speed. Granted Allen's production will be hard to replace but shouldn't be THAT big to expect at least 7 sacks and a capable run stopper out of whom ever replaces the RDE spot. That said if the _ffense can average 20 pts per game we COULD possibly win 7-8 games alone on a defense heavy team.
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IMO, the defense will be doing good to hold position.
RDE - worse than Allen
2 DTs - improvement with the addition of Dorsey, Tank making huge strides would be huge, but I'm not banking on it.
LDE - worese that Ali (assuming that Ali slides to RDE)
ROLB - worse as Donnie Edwards becomes another year older
MLB - about the same, but a weakness
LOLB - about the same, a strength
CB - we'll do good to break even with a rookie and an older Surtain. Law wasn't good, but he wasn't as bad as some people want to paint him.
S - who knows. It was a weakness last year. Will Pollard and Page improve? Will Morgan win a starting spot and be effective as a rookie?
We're at least 1 year experience and a few players (OLB, MLB, CB, pass rusher, at least) from having a defense that is anything but ordinary. Talk of top 5 is crazy talk.