UNFORTUNATELY, the writing is on the wall :-(

[Catalyst]

I thought bringing in a new coaching staff and getting the #1 overall pick in the draft, the most impressive rookie qb statistically in NFL history at that, along with bringing in two solid tight ends to help in the receiving game was going to make us more successful.

Apparently I was wrong.

And the offense isn't better? The problem is we've been awful on defense; our offense is plenty good enough to win - as we've seen time and time again.

What we didn't count on was losing Beason for the year and that Dan Connor would be a laughing stock in his place. Or that we would essentially get WORSE at DT instead of better.

The offense will be fine. We will finish 6-10 or 5-11 with a bottom feeder defense and with a top 10 pick go after the best defensive player. Just getting Beason back will be huge; we have nobody capable of replicating his on-field leadership right now and it's showing big time. And that's not even getting into the fact that he's LIGHT YEARS better than Connor.

At this point, I'm convinced that our 1st pick won't be enough. We're going to have to add at LEAST 1 defensive starter via free agency.