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The past is plenty relevant. That's how we know what works and what doesn't. That said, in 2006 we had Asante, Seymour, Colvin, Bruschi and Vrabel, all of whom are better than the guys currently playing their positions (Bodden, Wright, TBC, Guyton, and whoever else we line up at OLB).
I'm not about to panic or anything, since we still have plenty of FA, the draft, and june cuts in front of us. Trying to evaluate the 2010 team right now is just pointless. But that 2006 defense definitely had strong points that the 2009 one, at least, didn't.
Drumming up the receiving corps of 2006 as evidence that this team can win with a bunch of scrubs catching the ball is why 2006 is irrelevant.
1.) The wide receiver corps wasn't good enough last year, even when Welker was healthy.
2.) The rest of the team is far different than it was in 2006, as you note in your post.
I agree that panicking at this point is silly. I fully expect BB to address most of the concerns I have for the team, because I assume he's able to see them just as we are. Nonetheless, the team needs a lot of players to be replaced and upgraded, in a bizarre NFL offseason without a cap and with different free agency rules, and Homers blowing smoke up everyone's legs is just as silly as the Chicken Littles scanning the skies.
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