2025 DE's where we at?

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(Yesterday, 03:32 PM)Cosmokramer Wrote: I don’t think our pass rush or lack there of really cost us many games.  Sure we want more pressure. But in my opinion our focus needs to be 100% on our secondary.  It was atrocious. If you want to boil down games to 1 play , our secondary cost us several games where if they had defended that one pass at the end of game we win.   CTB is mediocre at best,  Bell took a major step back.  Stone and newton did not live up to their hype.   Basically Hilton carried us.  And he’s aging.

As Nate said, pass rush will HELP the secondary.

We don't have scrubs back there, each person has flashed, albeit inconsistently, the past 3 years: a consistent pass rush will help them all tremendously.

I don't expect Bell back btw, as he was a Lou guy and has clearly lost a step and what he was brought back for, is no longer necessary.

(Yesterday, 03:33 PM)kalibengal Wrote: I say move on from Hubbard, Murphy, Sample, try to resign Ossai at a reasonable contract, draft an Edge in Rd 1 and don't let Duke make that decision or target a FA DE like Chase Young. Too bad about Murphy but win rates and PFF scores and high RAS etc  need to convert into sacks and TFLs which he cant seem to do after 2 seasons

Why don't we cut the whole team while we're at it?


Anyways, if I were calling the shots, I'd go in with:

Starters:

- Hendrickson
- Draft Pick/Good FA

1st backup guy at each positon:

- Ossai
- Murphy

Depth:

- Hubbard
- Sample (PS)
- Johnson (PS)

DT needs to be considered as well though, since DL usually goes hand in hand with both positions. For that:

Starters: 

-Hill/Jenkins (if Hill doesn't come back)
- McKinnley/Good FA or draft

1st backup:

- Jenkins/Draft
- McKinnley/Draft
- Slide in one of the DEs

I think we're pretty good and setup for Dline, we're just missing one impact player at each spot, thus I'd say to draft one and sign a FA for the other, then we will see a better Dline. 

Things did improve as the year went on as well, no doubt due to the, "simplification," of things.