knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Almost exactly my thoughts about D next year. People will downgrade us on D because we're losing Suh, but Crick and Moore/Steinkuhler should be just fine in the middle. Meredith, in my opinion, is outplaying Turner right now. I'm also liking what I'm seeing from Compton and Fisher, and while losing Dillard's leadership will hurt, we have a LOT of LBs to choose from.caveman99 said:Well of course losing Suh hurts, but I am not sure the D-Line will be much less effective. Meredith has looked as good as Turner if not better in spots when he has played. I expect him to continue to develop and at least match Turner's output next season. We haven't seen what Ankrah or Randle can do. Crick is a stud in the making, he is even faster than Suh but not quite as strong. He will become the guy that teams focus on and rightfully so. Question is will Baker, Moore, Randle, or someone else step up like Crick has next to Suh? Carl has a good track record thus far, so I am willing to bet that as a whole the D-Line plays really well next year. At LB, I am not sure what you are looking at but Fisher has played well lately as has Compton IMO. Not as good as Dillard, but frankly I think Dillard is playing close to All Conference Caliber right now so to say they aren't matching his level of play doesn't mean they are playing bad. The secondary will be really good next year, the are pretty good this year. Overall I am pretty excited about the Defense for the next few years.
I'm again not so excited about our DBs coming up, but that could change if Dennard and Gomes continue to show flashes here and there. I was hoping for more from the secondary as a whole this year and that hasn't happened... who knows why.
I think 2010 looks very bright. We can make it even brighter by beginning to build something on offense in 2009. But we need to start doing that NOW.