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San Francisco's Linebacker core is the best in the league, that's why their defense is good. Our talent there is nowhere close to them at that position.
The Bengals and Jaguars defense have better players all around than our defense.
To classify our defense "talent" wise I'd say:
1 All-Pro DT (Wilfork)
1 ALL-Pro ILB (Mayo)
1 All Pro player in a slump (Mccourty)
1 very good/borderline probowl DE (carter)
1 good safety (Chung)
1 decent CB (Arrington)
4-5 JAG LBs (Guyton, Ninkovich, Spikes, Fletcher, Cunningham)
3 JAG linemen (Ellis, Haynesworth until proven otherwise, Love)
5 absolute trash secondary players that would be STers everywhere else(Ighdigbo, Brown, Barrett, Molden, Phillip Adams)
If we just had average players to surround Wilfork, Carter, Mccourty, and Mayo, the defense would be good. The problem is it's pretty bad around them.
The Bengals and Jaguars defense have better players all around than our defense.
To classify our defense "talent" wise I'd say:
1 All-Pro DT (Wilfork)
1 ALL-Pro ILB (Mayo)
1 All Pro player in a slump (Mccourty)
1 very good/borderline probowl DE (carter)
1 good safety (Chung)
1 decent CB (Arrington)
4-5 JAG LBs (Guyton, Ninkovich, Spikes, Fletcher, Cunningham)
3 JAG linemen (Ellis, Haynesworth until proven otherwise, Love)
5 absolute trash secondary players that would be STers everywhere else(Ighdigbo, Brown, Barrett, Molden, Phillip Adams)
If we just had average players to surround Wilfork, Carter, Mccourty, and Mayo, the defense would be good. The problem is it's pretty bad around them.
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