Disagree, last years D was not good. It allowed “washed up” quarterbacks to put up career record setting days practically reviving their broken careers like Smith, Newton, Foles, and Bortles.
So we have gone from
swiss cheese D to "was not good". Moving the goalposts already in the first sentence.
Also putting Bortles into that list after the D and ST saved a failing offense from losing the AFCCG is also pretty bold. Similarly, maybe the Vikings swiss cheese defense also needs to be reworked after getting wrecked even worse by Foles in the NFCCG.
Good that we didn't have to play any good QBs like Brees, Ryan or Roethlisberger that season. Otherwise they would have totally blown us apart. Right ?
I think the defense was on the right path after 2014 then we traded away some star young talent for peanuts and missed on several high draft picks on D.
We didnt trade away anyone for peanuts. But arguing with you people about this is like talking to flat earthers. Who was traded away for
Peanuts ? Chandler Jones ? The pass rusher with the highest return in a trade in the last 4-5 years ?
And not only did we get a second round pick for CJ but by getting rid of his salary and by not extending him we were in position to sign players like Gilmore AND another midlevel (3m) contract.
Collins ? You think getting that third round pick is not enough for half a season of Collins after he was demoted to a part time player ?
My hope this year is I don’t have to watch the opposing QB have a picnic back there in the pocket like last year. Seemed like opposing QBs last year were barely touched.
You should check up the NFL 2017 stats because you'd see that what you are claiming here is not only not true but that you must have been watching a different team. We were one sack away from being in the top 5 of Sacks per team. So clearly the opposing QBs were more than
barely touched.
And before you start moving the goalposts on the QB pressure let me just make sure to say that I am by no means saying the pass rush was great or impressive last year. But merely that all of your claims are extremely over-exaggerated or maybe just uninformed crap.