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No more unwarrented than your outrage at my questioning BB for not trying to address this problem.
Fair enough. I retract my outrage
I want BB to address the issues that face this team, and the biggest need on this team is/was/will be pass rush.
It is one of the issues, but there are other areas where we could use help. As such, if there are two players available, both at a position of need, and BB feels strongly about one and not the other, I want him taking the player he believes in, not the one that satisfies the area of "greater" need.
How do you know, where in the original interview? Maybe this is who he is, maybe he is a one sack type of player? Maybe BB hit it big? At least he tried to address an issue that the team has had for at least the last three seasons.
I don't, but neither do you, so casting him off and saying we haven't done anything to address the pass rush is premature.
Our secondary was pretty good last year, our safties hit people, recievers had to look out when they came across the middle. Our CB's did well, McCorty was very good and will get better, Arrington did a decent job and will be much better as a nickle this year assuming Bodden comes back and can stay healthy. Run game, top ten in the league. OL, we addressed that, TE, we have two very good rookies from last years draft.
I don't want Kyle Arrington starting again. Trooper that he was, he's not meant to be a top corner. Bodden coming back SHOULD help prevent that, but what if he's slow getting up to speed, or there's an injury to him or McCourty? I'd rather have more talent to deal with the inevitable injury we always seem to suffer to CBs, especially in a league these days that has teams with 4 good targets.
As for the run game, Taylor and Morris can't make it through a season, meaning we were one bad hit away from using Woodhead as our every down back. I don't like that either, so I'm glad we added some youth (and were able to do so outside of the first round, where I don't like taking RBs).
Seems like BB doesn't like any OLB. The Pats will not get a better pass rush unless they actually try to do something to make it better. They haven't in a couple of years now, and we are 0 for 2 in the playoffs, in a large part because of pass rush. The Ravens had one and we didn't have one against the Jets.
As has been pointed out, the Ravens game had nothing to do with OUR lack of pass rush, and in either game you could argue that the bigger problem was our INABILITY to keep Brady upright (and you could make the same argument for SB42). We have taken steps to address that.