Room for disappointment in FA?

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

It's a little to soon for me to start getting worried. We have'nt addressed all our needs but free agency isn't over and the draft has'nt started yet. We signed Hall when alot of us thought it was too late. Who would have figured we'd get Dockery? That means we just got younger with a starter at LG. Our d-line sucks! Sound familiar? I'm pretty sure AH improves our d-line. We've improved our team and have'nt even drafted yet. It is VERY possible to get a starting RT AND talented young OLB in the draft. Assuming we're done in free agency. The draft has'nt started yet and we've already improved our team. Maybe not the way we all would have liked, but I don't think there is any doubt we've improved. With only 4 picks in the draft we've already improved more than I expected, that's why I'm excited. To think we could address every need with our cap situation and only 4 picks would have been unreasonable but...... somehow we may still do it. Whether we trade down or not, we're still going to get some help in the draft.

I'm not trying to be annoying but AH did improve our line but we also lost Evans. Taylor and Carter aren't known for their run stopping. IMO we need another quality DE to be competitively imposing on the line.

Also Dockery is filling Kendall's spot so we haven't added anything there and offense was our weakness last year.

We're only going to yield one possible starter with our draft picks. Even if our 3rd rounder starts somewhere this year will that necessarily be a good thing? Reinhardt couldn't even touch the field last year when we had extreme need for a warm body on the line.

Our team has changed but I don't think it's improved yet. We'll probably have to wait for next offseason to see that.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

I'm not trying to be annoying but AH did improve our line but we also lost Evans. Taylor and Carter aren't known for their run stopping. IMO we need another quality DE to be competitively imposing on the line.

Our draft should like this:

Trade down and select Mack

next pick DE or LB
T
DE or LB again
RB

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

I'm not trying to be annoying but AH did improve our line but we also lost Evans. Taylor and Carter aren't known for their run stopping. IMO we need another quality DE to be competitively imposing on the line.

Also Dockery is filling Kendall's spot so we haven't added anything there and offense was our weakness last year.

We're only going to yield one possible starter with our draft picks. Even if our 3rd rounder starts somewhere this year will that necessarily be a good thing? Reinhardt couldn't even touch the field last year when we had extreme need for a warm body on the line.

Our team has changed but I don't think it's improved yet. We'll probably have to wait for next offseason to see that.

Even if we lost Evans, which I'm not sure we have yet, I would say AH is an improvement over Evans. I would say gaining about 8 years youth at LG is an improvement. If our 3rd rounder is good enough to start, how would that not be an improvement? I disagree Tee. I think we've improved.

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

Even if we lost Evans, which I'm not sure we have yet, I would say AH is an improvement over Evans. I would say gaining about 8 years youth at LG is an improvement. If our 3rd rounder is good enough to start, how would that not be an improvement? I disagree Tee. I think we've improved.

What I'm basically saying is that we went for quality in this year's free agency and we definitely got it.

Our 2008 team needed quantity because the lack of depth really killed us down the stretch on both sides of the ball...Geisinger was blocking Terrell Suggs at one point for God's sakes

IMO we still haven't addressed the quantity that was needed from last year's team.

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

What I'm basically saying is that we went for quality in this year's free agency and we definitely got it.

Our 2008 team needed quantity because the lack of depth really killed us down the stretch on both sides of the ball...Geisinger was blocking Terrell Suggs at one point for God's sakes

IMO we still haven't addressed the quantity that was needed from last year's team.

I agree that we still have some holes to fill. I didn't mean to imply we didn't. I'm hoping we get some help in the draft. T.O.Killa brought Kevin Burnett back up in the 2009 FA's thread. If we have the money we should check this guy out. He could possibly fill the OLB need at a reasonable price.

[JWDundees]

The Dockery signing is arguably bigger than the AH signing. Kendall was barely holding on at LG and to pick up Dock...I just cant explain how important I think that is. I was initially down on the AH pick up because we had more pressing needs along the O-line but with Dock in the mix Im ecstatic with the FO's moves so far.

So no...i dont think their is room for disappointment this year in FA.