OK, so if no heir to Smitty is in our draft plans, or in the draft at all,then FA is critical

[rayzor]

Thats what pisses me off, I don't want shootouts, I want to stop them. I want to hold them to 1 fieldgoal, damn the shootouts.

that's not going to happen. sure, in regular season....maybe. but you aren't going to be able to do that very often and you sure aren't going to be able to get through the playoffs doing that. you can't count on it. not in today's NFL. those days are long gone. the league wanted arena football type scores and they're getting them.

if you aren't creating a team that can put up those kind of ridiculous scores then you're losing. you're going to get abused. you're going to get exploited. you're not going to be able to stop everyone.

teams that rely on their defense shutting down the other team have a very low ceiling.

[ThunderKatt]

so we're just fine the way we are. we're happy being having an 'ok' WR corps that doesn't cost us games. we're fine with the idea of not improving there and ignoring the fact that our only true stud WR is in his 30's right now, has gone an incredibly long time without missing significant time due to injury or stupidity and we are on borrowed time with him.

meh.....i'm done. you've got this thought in your head that says everything is just fine and there's no reason to try and improve there. so be it.

if you are saying we are good on defense then you are delusional. I never said not to pick up another wr in fact I can almost guarantee we will draft.one but it won't be in the first round because I'm willing to bet we will be drafting to put our team in a better position on defense to compete in a south division that has high.powered offenses. If everyone.can score.but.no one can stop anyone when it counts we will be in the same position.as the pats.and falcons.

[rayzor]

our defense was better than the offense this last year. we finished with a top 10 defense.

[ThunderKatt]

Baltimore cut new England off after the.half with defense. They shut out a high powered offense. Were you not.watching the game? What happened to.Atlanta, they got shut out in the.2nd.half of a championship game that you said doesnt happen but it happened twice today.

[ThunderKatt]

Tom turned into a p*ssy because he couldn't have a shootout.

[top dawg]

We are a top 10 defense, rightly poised to only get better.

[ThunderKatt]

We are a top 10 defense, rightly poised to only get better.

yea if we get a stud dt and some stronger safety support.

[Sloth]

yea if we get a stud dt and some stronger safety support.

We were a top 10 defense last season.

[koolkatluke]

so we're just fine the way we are. we're happy being having an 'ok' WR corps that doesn't cost us games. we're fine with the idea of not improving there and ignoring the fact that our only true stud WR is in his 30's right now, has gone an incredibly long time without missing significant time due to injury or stupidity and we are on borrowed time with him.

meh.....i'm done. you've got this thought in your head that says everything is just fine and there's no reason to try and improve there. so be it.

I don't know what Kind of wr corp we have. I'm still trying to figure out how you are so sure what we have in the WR corp. Cam didn't have time to throw the ball deep a lot of the time and Chud was putting us in such bad position with play calling.

That's why I asked what Game did our WR cost us because I don't remember seeing a major problems with wr not being open.

[ThunderKatt]

You guys are saying the same thing the d is top 10 and we are saying the o is top 10 but the difference is we are in an offensive oriented division which means we need to build a stronger d to combat them.

[koolkatluke]

We were a top 10 defense last season.

We got that way at the end of the season. We also got better with better play calling to on offense.

[BigSyke]

ummm the only decent guy u got besides smith is olsen. lafell is avg..lol

and the reason why they are top 5 in passes for 20 or more is because of newton....qbs can help out wr a whole bunch....just like brady makes the avg pats wr.....but soon it catches up to you..

cam needs a YOUNG true deep threat. i like patton,patterson and williams for that.

[ThunderKatt]

We were a top 10 defense last season.

if we can become top 5 we will sweep the south with a top 10 offense.

[koolkatluke]

I agree with you, but, like I said, we have to address all the issues. That's my real point. Whether we do it by draft or FA is the question. Everything has to be evaluated, weighed and balanced, planned, and then executed. There is no sure-fire way to say which way is right. You have to adapt and play chess with each specific situation to try and achieve the best outcome.

There is no way we can address all issues in 1 offseason. We don't have any cap space and we don't have a full load of draft picks. We need to fix are biggest problems. That's DT, O-line and secondary.