10-15-2015, 08:36 AM
(10-14-2015, 05:28 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: while russell has been in 2 sbs and has a ring. That Defense and RB was their winning formula. But russell got paid and now their defense is slipping due to talent leaving for $$$ elsewhere.
Yes, defense and Beast Mode were important, but I'll just say that we wouldn't have the same successs over the last few years without Wilson.
Also, we have most important players on defense under contract for next 3 or 4 years (Sherm, Kam, ET, Bennett, Avril, Wagner, Wright),... Only defensive starter that left was Byron Maxwell, who was given a crazy contract in Philadelphia. And we've lost some good depth players (our 2013 and 2014 drafts were not as good as 2010-12 and it shows here with some depth issues) and of course DC Dan Quinn and LB coach Ken Norton Jr. left too. All this and Kam's holdout had impact so far in the season. But we've struggled early last season as well. So I don't think lost talent on the defense is our main problem right now. They just need to start playing at their best (especially on the road) and everything will be better.
What we sacrificed to pay defense and Russell is OL. We lost another two starters (C Max Unger in a trade for Graham and LG James Carpenter in free agency). Now we have some "projects" there. Converted DT Drew Nowak is a starting C and RT Garry Gilliam is a former TE. Justin Britt, who started all 16 games in his rookie year at RT is playing at LG now and is by far the worst graded player so far. Only LT Russell Okung, who is in his contract year and RG J.R. Sweezy (also a former converted DL) have previous experience at their position. So their struggles are undestandable, but I hope they'll get their sh... together before Wilson is killed behind that OL.
