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<blockquote data-quote="Since69" data-source="post: 225556" data-attributes="member: 371"><p>It's tough to make predictions like this. You have to try and keep from projecting last year's weak links into this year. This is a very young team overall and I think last year's weakness at OG was (at least in part) due to inexperience. I think the guards will be fine in 2008. Both Spitz and Colledge are a year older and stronger, and run blocking has a teamwork dynamic that can take quite a while to develop.</p><p></p><p>This year I see our secondary as our weakest link. Woodson and Harris are fantastic, but they're no spring chickens (especially for what is mostly a "speed" position). When CBs age their play tends to fall off rather quickly, and we have a bunch of "just guys" behind them. I would have loved to have picked up Asante Samuel or Nnamdi Asomugha (or even Lito Sheppard) this offseason. So what if we have three star CBs? We can afford it, and we spend one-half to two-thirds of our time in the nickel or dime packages anyway.</p><p></p><p>Our impending troubles at CB are compounded by the fact that we don't have a safety that can cover worth a lick. Collins and Rouse and Bigby are essentially the same players - big hitters, run stoppers. None of them are good enough in coverage to offer our CBs any significant amount of help. Not having a "free safety" is the reason we got abused by TEs all last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Since69, post: 225556, member: 371"] It's tough to make predictions like this. You have to try and keep from projecting last year's weak links into this year. This is a very young team overall and I think last year's weakness at OG was (at least in part) due to inexperience. I think the guards will be fine in 2008. Both Spitz and Colledge are a year older and stronger, and run blocking has a teamwork dynamic that can take quite a while to develop. This year I see our secondary as our weakest link. Woodson and Harris are fantastic, but they're no spring chickens (especially for what is mostly a "speed" position). When CBs age their play tends to fall off rather quickly, and we have a bunch of "just guys" behind them. I would have loved to have picked up Asante Samuel or Nnamdi Asomugha (or even Lito Sheppard) this offseason. So what if we have three star CBs? We can afford it, and we spend one-half to two-thirds of our time in the nickel or dime packages anyway. Our impending troubles at CB are compounded by the fact that we don't have a safety that can cover worth a lick. Collins and Rouse and Bigby are essentially the same players - big hitters, run stoppers. None of them are good enough in coverage to offer our CBs any significant amount of help. Not having a "free safety" is the reason we got abused by TEs all last year. [/QUOTE]
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