Defense: Biggest Questions Going into Camp

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Yeah Chico these are awesome threads. Gets us focused on 2017 and away from the Cousins saga. Time to move on and think about the present.

My eyes are on all things pass rush. If you want to get off the field on 3rd down you have to bother the QB, basic tenet of football. So I'm watching Jonathan Allen, because if we get the interior penetration then we improve by leaps and bounds. We already had decent edge play, and it could be better. But the interior penetration is where we'd really be adding something we didn't have before.

And I'm watching Junior Galette, Ryan Anderson, and Preston Smith. You know what you get from Kerrigan. The question is can you get a consistent threat from the other side? I think my eyes are on Galette the most, because everybody else is a power rusher. Ryan Anderson, Preston Smith, Trent Murphy; they have good hands, solid length, and the strength to get to the QB. But it doesn't happen very quickly. Even Kerrigan wins with power more than he does speed. We need somebody that can get there in an instant. Win off the edge so quickly that the QB never has a chance. That would be new for us.

After all this time the player with the potential to make the biggest impact for us is still Junior Galette. I will be scanning reports every day to find out how Galette looks vs Trent.