08-20-2019, 04:40 PM
(08-20-2019, 01:27 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I hate using injuries as an excuse and know we have AJ out early this year, but do you think if Green, AD, Lawson, Brown, Glasgow, Eifert and others played 70% of their unit's snaps in 2018 we win less than 9 games (versus 6)??
Do you think AJ being out last part of 2018 taught our FO and coaches anything about our WR depth which proved to be very bad when we lost AJ and abysmal when we lost Boyd too.
Basically the way I looked at the injuries last year was I didn’t think the team was going anywhere in the long run far as being a contender even if guys stayed healthy especially with Marvin as coach. The defense was going to be a disaster no matter what. One linebacker and a backup DT getting hurt wouldn’t change that. Lawson didn’t get hurt till week 9 and the core of the d-line of Dunlap, Billings, Atkins, Johnson, Hubbard, Willis we’re healthy all season. The secondary of Jackson III, Dennard, Kirkpatrick, Williams and Bates were healthy all year. Vigil is a below average lb and was healthy against Carolina and Atlanta when our defense was getting trampled. Burfict being hurt didn’t really matter because he sucked even when he was healthy. Relying on guys like Eifert to make it through a season and healthy isn’t a great plan. And an offensive line with guys like Redmond and Hart in the long term weren’t going to get it done. Dalton got hurt late into the Cleveland game when we were already getting killed not sure a healthy Dalton and company could have beat the browns last season.
