06-26-2024, 01:24 PM
(06-26-2024, 10:42 AM)Lucius Cincinnatus Wrote: The Titans had a horrendous offensive line last year, which will be worse than whatever the Ravens trot out there, and Henry ran for 122 (5.5 ypc) and 1 TD against us...with Reader last year....
Why are you sure we will be better at stopping the run after losing the best run-stuffing DT in the league? That seems like blind optimism.
All I know is, it seems like every offseason, folks are talking about the players the Ravens lost (Last offseason, it was Ben Powers, Justin Houston, JPP, Calais Campbell, Marcus Peters, Chuck Clark, etc.) and it doesn't really seem to matter.
That said, I think you can make a decent argument for any team. The Steelers defense has a chance to be elite. The Browns won 11 games with mediocre QB play..It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
Our Defense was one of the worst run stopping Defenses in the league with Reader last year. One player does not make a team good at
stopping the run, fact. The reason we were bad at stopping the run was Hubbard being injured, Trey always being bad at stopping the run,
Logan Wilson being injured, Pratt taking terrible angles, bad communication on the backend and poor tackling.
Stopping the run is a team effort and if we are not better than last year we will be the worst run stopping Defense in the league.
If you want to bet Lou Anarumo won't get this Defense together and playing better than last year I think that is a poor bet.
