...who was playing- prior to his injury like he did when he was a Bill.
A 75% Gilmore helps our D by having a ripple effect on the secondary (e.g. Jackson to WR#2 and JMac to WR#4).
Besides, this isn't the week that we need Gilmore back.
The D is susceptible to outside zone runs because we struggle to set the edge. I even saw Wino go low vs. the Jets...it worked somewhat. And Simon is inconsistent.
Also, San Francisco exploited our LB speed in the shallow/wide parts of the field.
It is what it is....we will need to play single high safety with man coverage and hope that Jennings/Uche/Dugger get up to speed ASAP and that Guy is healthy enough to plug at least one hole on the DL.
However, this D can help us out by forcing offenses to march slowly down the field....take those Flacco crazy deep throws out of the game and we'll be OK and shift the burden back to the offense to keep up with scoring.
If we can do that, then our ST units can flip the field....Olszewski is primed to break a big return, IMO....c'mon Gunnar!