I beg to differ. I think there is easily more than one game to go off of. I've certainly been harping on that DL from last year, into the offseason, and after week one. I'm not going to go into the details again, but it is garbage. There is a huge lack of talent at that position.
Even the best DL we have had have been average at best.
I agree with that. That said.., who did we lose on D? Kirksey? We gained Campbell, Stokes, Slayton and McDuffie and while they are unknowns they don’t make us worse.
You think Clark is average at best? Or do you mean the entire unit as a whole?
He is pretty decent. But I will take Gilbert Brown, Santana Dotson, Grady Jackson, Vonnie Holiday, or Cullen Jenkins over him. These guys did not just plug the whole. They stayed on the field.
Well each of those guys was great in his own right, but different roles, different D schemes and many played on teams with better D rosters, so hard to direct compare. I think Kenny’s pretty good and our 3rd best D player we have behind 1. J’aire and 2.Z’darius if I had to pick my squad. If we had just 2 of him on the DL?
No. And the opener with two weeks to prepare is inexcusable. This reminded me of that one rare time when Lombardi did not have his team ready. Thanksgiving Day 1962. We got pummeled through and through except for the 4th quarter in garbage time. But I could accept that because the other 14 games they played that year had a big W.
And Detroit was a very good team that year.
Agreed, we are not worse, but we are definitely not better. We brought too many of the same old retreads back and they are also a year older in terms of body wear. The whole thing is icky!
No question each part of this team played a role to get that level of colossal failure
Maybe. I just don’t have enough info yet. I’m not going to pass judgement until we give a new DC time to make adjustments. imo anything short of 4-8 games is way premature. The other aspect many fans conveniently ignore is that teams constantly evolve. Injuries, additions.. there’s lots of variables that can affect the final season outcome. No way would I put all my chips in on 1 game. That goes for if the scores for week 1 were reversed. We are way to early in to declare SB Champions or Bankruptcy. We need more moderation and less overreaction these days.
Gilbert and Santana were there to be plugged. Stop the run. That freed The Lbs to do their thing on the edge. The sacks were meant for Reggie, Sean Jones, Gabe Wilkins. It was a rare day when these guys were manhandled on the line of scrimmage.
Yes. They were 11-3. And the 3 games they lost were 9-7, 17-14, and 3-0. One of which was to the Packers.
