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[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Exactly. I think a big reason injuries seem to devastate us so much is the lack of quality depth to fill in the holes. A prime example is how well middle round picks are contributing for us right now (Golston, Montgomery, Cooley, Blades, etc). Another handful of guys like that and our injury bug might not sting as much.

The lack of middle round picks definitely hurts our depth. However, the lack of middle round picks may hurt us even more by forcing us to turn our roster over. Without such middle round picks, we are forced to bring in aging vets to fill holes that those middle round picks would fill. In the short run, those aging vets typically play better than rookies and younger players. In the long run, however, bringing in guys when they already have 5 years under their belts forces us to turn the roster over more frequently. The average age of our players is 29 (among the oldest, if not the oldest, average in the league). 20 players on our roster are at least 30 years old (compared with 6 such players on the Cowboys' roster). Nearly half of our starters are at least 30 years old (i.e., Springs, Fletcher, Washington, Daniels, Griffin, Samuels, Kendall, Rabach, Thomas, Jansen). I don't know how others feel, but I definitely believe that such turnover isn't a good thing.