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SBXVII · 11-09-2010, 10:34 AM

Goat,

Your right Shanahan didn't take over a team with out any talent but he did take over a team that had little to no talent on the OL. Everyone has said year in and year out if the OL was better and the QB had time to throw the ball this team would be better. The OL really has not changed talent wise even though they added new pieces to the puzzle. Trent is clearly our best OL. Hopefully MS can make the OL better this offseason cause lord knows he didn't have much to work with and very little OL in the free agency market.

I see the defense as having a similar issue. Our DL is not 3-4 quality. Our LB's although one or two can play in this scheme the rest are not 3-4 quality. So now it goes to fans expecting a HC or DC to totally skip the style they want to run or would like to run and only utilize the scheme for the type of players they have.

I still say had the team came out and said "REBUILD" many fans would be sitting her right now saying "Wow, we are in rebuild mode and the team is 4-4 at the halfway point. " "Give them a couple of more years and we are talking Super Bowl." Instead we see the opposite, fans complaining that MS has ego issues (which sounds very similar to what fans said about Schottenhiemer), He's not playing the right scheme to his strength's defensively, He lied to the media (like Bilicheat has done), and we have only played 8 games.

11-09-2010, 10:34 AM	#69
SBXVII Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 7,766	Re: Analyzing Mike Shanahan at the Midway Point Goat, Your right Shanahan didn't take over a team with out any talent but he did take over a team that had little to no talent on the OL. Everyone has said year in and year out if the OL was better and the QB had time to throw the ball this team would be better. The OL really has not changed talent wise even though they added new pieces to the puzzle. Trent is clearly our best OL. Hopefully MS can make the OL better this offseason cause lord knows he didn't have much to work with and very little OL in the free agency market. I see the defense as having a similar issue. Our DL is not 3-4 quality. Our LB's although one or two can play in this scheme the rest are not 3-4 quality. So now it goes to fans expecting a HC or DC to totally skip the style they want to run or would like to run and only utilize the scheme for the type of players they have. I still say had the team came out and said "REBUILD" many fans would be sitting her right now saying "Wow, we are in rebuild mode and the team is 4-4 at the halfway point. " "Give them a couple of more years and we are talking Super Bowl." Instead we see the opposite, fans complaining that MS has ego issues (which sounds very similar to what fans said about Schottenhiemer), He's not playing the right scheme to his strength's defensively, He lied to the media (like Bilicheat has done), and we have only played 8 games.