If there's one area I'd like to see us make an effort to keep a crew together,it would be our O-line. If we can build up front to the point where we only need to draft 1 player a year just to keep the cupboard full and use the rest of the draft to fill target areas then I think we could be sitting pretty for a real long time. Guess that idea all hinges on how quickly the new fella's pick it up this year.
Would be a damn shame to lose some of the talent we've massed at corner given how hard the team had to work to field a serviceable pass defense. What can u do though? The Patsies have had that problem for years; granted it's hard to keep talent at key areas like corner when your M.O. has been to low ball your DB's and pay the rest of your defense.
I worry a lot less about our backers. Sing's the king of coaching up LB's and just as good at drafting em. We've got our defensive captain on lockdown until he dies and that's the biggest thing in my mind. Long live P Willy
This year should be telling in regard to how far along we really are. All I know for sure is we've got a lot of skill that could command some serious $ if we make the playoffs this year (i.e. Crabby, Ginn Jr., Coffee, Lawson, Harralson, Brooks? Goldson?... possibly the entire goddamn offensive line if they get their sh*t together this year lol! Plus un-foreseeable whoevers??? We could wind up dealing with agents all damn summer. Guess that's a problem you want ultimately but we all know it'll be excessive greed that rules the day and we'll lose something.
Short answer: wait and see I guess lol!
[ Edited by NatralBrnThrila on Jul 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM ]