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Originally Posted by smithandrew051

Yeah, but I don’t think it’s completely unwarranted.

The defense started off ****ing horrible last year, which skewed the full season stats.

Jones being inside for a full season will help.

The defense was significantly better once Ingram came around.

Dunlap was better than Ingram last year. Karlaftis is likely an upgrade or whoever you believe was our third DE last year. Clark can’t be worse and seems to have dedicated himself in the offseason to being in better shape.

Veach made a major investment in the secondary. He typically gets it right in the secondary, so we can expect an improvement there. We were near the top of the league in pressures, but couldn’t get the QB down. I think more of the pass rush issues from last year are on the secondary than we realized.

The linebackers look much better on paper, which should help us get into more 3rd and longs if we aren’t getting gashed against the run.

All of that, should equal an improvement.

I agree for the most part, the only caveat in my mind is the youth of the secondary. We will have at least one rookie, possibly two in our top three rotation. They could take some time to show that improvement.