First, great posts on the second page had me choking on my beer...
Second, this d is going to beat the hell out of a lot of teams this year. Hightower, Chung and spikes should be a few major energy providers/tone setters/mean SOBs (if they stay healthy) that prove to be the heart of this defense. Mix that with tempered, heady, veteran leadership in mayo and vince....I'm f*c*ing pumped to see these guys come out flying week one.
Third, this offensive line has me worried. waters is pulling a Favre(ok, maybe not that bad, but WTF already!), and our rock at LT (pains me to say it, I never was too high on matt "false start" light, you could literally watch him cr@p his pants when lining up against a speed rusher, or Jason Taylor) hung them up, and solder worries me, a lot (i pray he bulked up since last year, and I'm talking the whole shebang...best PEDs money can buy...shhhhhh). Cannon...good story but the jury is out. Koppen was never really that good to start and mankins has dealt with not so insignificant injuries lately. Vollmer is a poorly timed sneeze from a blown out back, concussion or both. Gallery...flip a coin.
I love the defensive additions, but really would have loved to see an early round flyer on a tackle.
As a pop warner coach once screamed at a team I was on "if we can't block, it doesn't *****ing matter if Barry Sanders is back there, we aren't going to get anywhere." While this may not be quite the same scenario, we do (more or less) NEED a healthy Tf'nB. Of all the areas on this team, this is what worries me most. What's the plan when Vollmer goes out in preseason and solder gets hurt a few weeks in? Connolly goes down early and mankins isn't ready until week seven? Waters decides not to play (has he mentioned a decision yet?) Gallery goes down and mankins isn't ready to go?
In short, while depth may appear to be there, we are critically dependant on a few bodies, and that scares me.
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So am I.
