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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 696939" data-attributes="member: 7261"><p>I know what you are saying, the defense is obviously going to be better off with as many healthy starters back as possible. But with the exception of Shields, we basically have our Sept. starters back, which is more than most teams can say.  Guys like Matthews and Perry won't be back to 100 % and I would guess most of the guys are playing with some sort of injury that is affecting their games. But so is everyone else in the NFL at this point of the season.   Not sure where I am going with this, except to say, even if we have our week 1 starting unit less Sam Shields going into the Playoffs, it won't make this a great defense IMO. While our run defense looked promising at the beginning of the year, those numbers proved to be over inflated by defending against teams with back up runners and weak rushing games.  Our pass rush seems to be hot and cold.  Our LB play is the same.  Our secondary is probably our weakest link and without a pass rush or turnovers, may end up being our achilles heel.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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