[sportscurmudgeon]

Take the names out of this and tell me how outrageous this thinking is:


Last year's defensive unit - ranked in the top 3 in the league - lost their starting MLB and one of their starting CBs to free agency. Their starting SS has been absent for all team workouts since last season ended and is facing trial on felony charges in September 2005 - pending motions to put off the trial date. The projected replacement for the lost MLB is someone who was injured for all of last season; the projected replacement for the lost CB is a player who was injured for much of last season or possibly a high round draftee who is currently injured. Based on those happenings, the team has not had the kind of offseason that it might have wished to have.

Last year's offensive unit was less than productive and had a quarterback controversy for about half the season. After announcing that the QB who finished out last year was the starter this year, the team went out and spent a lot of captial just before the draft to pick another QB. Might this be the start of another QB controversy? It could happen - - and QB controversies don't usually make offensive units a whole lot better.