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Originally Posted by Jamaican'Skin
I don't know about a lot of you, but I am excited about this upcoming season, because I see a chance for us to go deep into the playoffs. Firstly, this maybe JC's millionth offense, but it is one he is familiar with. He already has a good rep with Moss and Randle El that should be growing with each passing practice. In my opinion, the offense will go with the oline, not with JC. If the line stays relatively healthy and our backups improve from last year, then we are easily a playoff team.
People seem to be worried about Blache after G Williams, but I coulda sworn I heard Blache was just using a simpler GWill D. It is a lot of continuity in that, just as there will be a lot of continuity in the O's run game. I have a feeling that we're just going to be picking up from where we left off last season. Guys are hungry and excited to play. This will be the year that we make the transition to an elite team in the league, or maybe I'm just seeing out of my burgundy and gold colored glasses
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I agree about JC & I also feel he's due to break out big time.
The concern about the D shouldn't just rest w/Blache. There is age & injuries to a unit that is not very deep overall. Even if Smoot & Springs can stay healthy, they are probably just a little above avg. & you have to figure age will catch SS if not injury. Rogers is an unknown at this point. The d line will again need some luck w/injuries & hope that some can become big contributors, e.g. wilson, E. James. The LBs are old and/or injury prone w/McIntosh coming back & MW, who plays his heart out but injuries & age might be catching up to him. With all the signings & draft picks, safety ironically looks like it might be the deepest position on the D.
Overall, the talent of the D isn't going to win us games & IMO GW got an awful lot of out what is basically an avg. group. It's not a criticism of Blache to say that the D will regress. I think we have to acknowledge just how good GW got that unit to play last year. However, when we were really overmatched it showed, e.g. the NE game. And teams that weren't scared of the blitzes went after our cb's. The pass rush is still a big concern. Even if Blache does a good job by most standards, that might be well below what GW could do w/that unit.