pierce will be missed more because he was the "general" or "commander" on defense smoot was just a "private" . football is a war and in times of war it's always worse to lose a "commander" than it is to lose a "private" but never-the-less the war will go on without either or, in this case both

. as far as coles goes, i think the skins are better off with the new guys just brought in.