Sitting on our hands as usual

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(11-05-2024, 06:35 PM)Au165 Wrote: Right, but again where were all these other elite defensive weapons getting moved? I would have been mad if a bunch got moved and we weren't in but it just looks like the cost of defense was too high league wide. We saw some dudes on the scrap heap get moved in White and Preston Smith, two guys who were on playoff teams getting jettisoned, but none of the names we had heard.

The time to fix the defense was the off season, it's kind of misguided anger to be mad about today and more so I think to keep point back to some of the weird decisions we made in the off season.

You're right.  The same defensive linemen were available for signing in the off season.   Shoot we couldn't even sign our own DT.  Granted we signed Rankins, but he was supposed to be an addition not a replacement for a nose tackle.

When you superimpose that on their failure to sign the core of our team it is just demoralizing.   We've already lost one QB to this.  We have a franchise QB and we're farting around.  And with the core players we kick the can down the rode till we absolutely can't afford them any more.

You look at the contenders and they were busy before and during the season.   No standing pat and waiting for success to find them.