We're still not in good shape at LB. Any ideas?

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(04-29-2019, 12:47 AM)Whodey614 Wrote: Of course. If Taylor's system elevates the Malik Jeffersons, Jordan Willis', John Ross', Nick Vigils, etc and we don't have 15+ players go on IR again we could be competitive. I love the idea of giving Mixon the keys and Taylor did a good job trying to fix the OL through the draft. That was easily the most important thing that had to be done. More LBs do need to be added. Hopefully, they will prove me wrong and bring in a Zach Brown.

Unfortunately, I think we are still at least a draft away from being back to where we were from 11-15. I do think if they're serious about getting the most out of this group while Geno, AJ, Carlos, etc are still high-level players, playoffs should be in the discussion this year. But we're relying on too many things to go our way. If things go bad again, I'm almost certain it's rebuild time.

It's hard for me to say they're more serious about wanting to win now than they've been in the past simple because they don't seem to be willing to use free agency to do major upgrades at starting spots. Miller was the only marginal starting upgrade that they did.

Lots of teams add talent through the draft. It would have been nice to say, with our $50+ million in cap space that we upgraded 2 starting spots in a clear way. One positive is we didn't get worse by losing players that were good.

There's going to be a lot of pressure under this model for the coaches to develop guys into solid players.