Home grown talent

[#56fanatic]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Gibbs has taken the approach of acquiring young free agents who are either in their prime or just entering it. Of course the downside of this is losing draft picks and the steeper price you have to pay for these free agents which in turn can impact depth.

Time will tell if this approach pays off. It paid off with a 10-6 playoff season last year, so it can work. I know when things are down everyone wants to question this approach, but I honestly don't see our talent level as a problem right now.

The pieces are in place for a successful season, but with a new offense we're seeing an adjustment period that we thought was over after the JAX game, but it's obviously something that's going to take a little more time to get fully ironed out.

Defensively we've been hampered by some key injuries, but hopefully Springs can get back into the mix soon and help cure some of those woes. The past two seasons the defense has gone through some tough stretches, but they got things worked out last year and I think they can do that again this year.

while i agree this approach has brought some young talent to the team, supposedly in their prime, the only problem is depth. When you pay so much money for these guys, and lose draft picks the quality of depth isn't all that great. Which like this year, is leaving us scrambling to fill holes when our starters go down. I think last year and this years draft is by far one of the best we have had since LaVar and Samuels. Rogers,Golsten,montgomery,Rocky look like they may be quality players. I also like Dougherty, I think he will be a quality depth player.