Draft Grades

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

OK, lets say that, for sake of argument, Williams does a brilliant job this season and provides a one year stopgap solution to our defensive woes.

And I'm talking the greatest coaching job by a DC ever.

What happens in 2008 now that we still have no young DLmen? Almost certainly another 2006--best case scenario. We will be dealing with two regressions:

1) the normal age regression
2) the regression from the greatest coaching job ever to a more reasonable average performance

A defensive rank of 30 in 2008 seems, if anything, a bit optimistic.

Greatest job ever? Williams now has a better defensive backfield than he has had since his arrival, how much worse is our defensive line from his first 2 years? Salvae and Griffen are both still here, and now they will have 2 players in Golston and Montgomery to give them rest and hopefully keep them fresh as well as healthy. Evans is still a pretty decent backup, Tell me which D-lineman had all the sacks Williams first 2 seasons? Please don't use Danials as an example, beating up on a Dallas scrub who had no buisness in the NFL IMO doesn't count, those 4 sacks credited to Daniels were nice but don't happen under usual circumstances, remove them and we have who on the D-line getting all the sacks? Yet a top defense Williams first 2 years!

We all saw last season what happens when you give big money to a DL because you have a need rather than signing or drafting a DL because he will make you much better, you have people crying the same thing the next season because the player you brought in wasen't as good as you thought, thank's to AC. We didn't pass up on Warren Sapp, Julius Peppers, or lawerence Taylor, we filled a big need at the safety position with the best possible player as just about every expert has agreed upon, who is projected as a star in the NFL, was any one of these DL projected by anyone to be a star on the NFL level? I didn't here 1 expert say that, but heres a better comparison, not 1 of these DL were better than Mario Williams coming out, and how much of an impact did he make? Other than his status as #1 pick nobody would have known who he was!

Couple all that with the fact that we should be better at LB this season with Rocky stepping up whom I am very exited to see him out there on a full time basis, who I feel will be very good [much better than Marshall on the outside] and fletcher who should be better than Marshall on the inside, I would say we have become significantly better over the coarse of this offseason. Now if Rogers finally starts to lockdown WR's which he has the talent to do look out for this defense.