Our Defense is NOT Loaded; our BACKUPS are weak.

[rkarp1]

You can't develop young players and have a proven bench. The OP assumes that because many of the depth players aren't completely proven they must be " weak." It takes time to build a program that both develops young players and uses them as starters and proven depth. But in the meantime he can just assume that they suck.

sure you can
the Pats did so last season

honestly, how many posters would have a better feel at this early stage if Gibbons was retained and Hill did not injure