For whatever reason, I feel very comfortable with this defense, even after McGee went out and Merriman went to the side line. I guess Nix must be a good salesman and I'm sucked into the defensive talent upgrade for two draft now.
Truthfully the preseason and the game yesterday gave me no reason to back down from that expectation. On defense, we are young and big, they just give me more comfort. Donahoe had a number of quality defenses but we were living off the mature players and FAs in a win now mode. Jauron's defense had its moments, but it's just so fragile that I'm scared that it can break any time, and it did.
On offense, dare I say that it's Fitz or nothing. If he plays well, it goes. Otherwise, we'll suck.
In a way I guess it's how people in NE and Indy feel - of course Brady and manning are consistently good (the reason they are super stars). I can see what Gailey and company tried to do with drafting Spiller and building a run oriented O-Line. So far Spiller is not panning out and the O-Line is still more suited for pass protection.
Truthfully the preseason and the game yesterday gave me no reason to back down from that expectation. On defense, we are young and big, they just give me more comfort. Donahoe had a number of quality defenses but we were living off the mature players and FAs in a win now mode. Jauron's defense had its moments, but it's just so fragile that I'm scared that it can break any time, and it did.
On offense, dare I say that it's Fitz or nothing. If he plays well, it goes. Otherwise, we'll suck.
In a way I guess it's how people in NE and Indy feel - of course Brady and manning are consistently good (the reason they are super stars). I can see what Gailey and company tried to do with drafting Spiller and building a run oriented O-Line. So far Spiller is not panning out and the O-Line is still more suited for pass protection.
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