How bad is the defense?

[jj22]

(11-26-2023, 11:44 PM)casear2727 Wrote: What you suggested is way too obvious.  I was the first to mention playing the younger guys more, but it has to be done properly.

Free agents would be VERY AWARE of what we did if we were to sit our starting CB, TE and WR. 

Whose to say I’m calling for us to lose with the young guys. Have you no faith? If they develop and win then that’s great. Better than a high draft pick which I certainly want. At least we won’t be banking on an unknown Brown at backup RB in 2024. An unknown Jones as Boyds replacement. Bamboozled by Hobspins offseason fluff on their development. 

We’d know what we have and needed. 

But we’ll never know unless we force the issue. Only way to do that is to play them. Tanking doesn’t work because teams will stumble into a win. Look at everyone mocking Houston for supposedly blowing their tank job. Which worked out pretty well for them. 

How many times have we seen a job handed to the replacement without knowing if they can even play? That’s what I don’t want to see headed into 2024. 

How many games has Tee missed? Maybe he is IR’d. So much has happened since we saw last saw him but why should he risk a return. That agent may have already called that shot. 

But we don’t have a lot of players that need reps, but we do at key positions heading into next year; DT, backup DE, CB, backup RB, WR. I hope they figure out a way to get a look at them.