I'm crossposting this from my reply on the other board's "holes" thread, thought it would be interesting to guage where people are at here:
My three biggest question marks right now are
a) Second WR. Does Curtis step up and provide what Stallworth did in his layover here? Does Baskett emerge as a good threat and not a nice UDFA story? Is Avant a contributor?
b) DT. I'm pretty confident that among Cole, Kearse, Howard, Thomas we're stacked at DE and anything we get from McDooDoo and Abirimimimi is gravy. But I need to see significant improvement from Patterson and Bunkley to know they are going to be our starting DT tandem for the next 6 years. I think Ramsay and Raegor will be nice subs, but we need good strong reps from those two first rounders going forward.
c) LB. Only because we have such an interesting cast and turnover at this spot going into 2007. Spikes and Trotter need to stay healthy. Gocong and Gaither need to emerge as real threats. I'd love to see Bradley step in and contribute his rookie year. This could be a GREAT force on the team if everyone stays healthy and steps up, but we've seen enough disappointments at this spot to err on the side of pessimism.
We're fine at secondary; Considine will be better, no more Lewis blowing coverages on top WRs, Mikell is a great backup, and this team has an excellent track record on developing scrub CBs like Hanson, James, and Hood into serviceable players.
My three biggest question marks right now are
a) Second WR. Does Curtis step up and provide what Stallworth did in his layover here? Does Baskett emerge as a good threat and not a nice UDFA story? Is Avant a contributor?
b) DT. I'm pretty confident that among Cole, Kearse, Howard, Thomas we're stacked at DE and anything we get from McDooDoo and Abirimimimi is gravy. But I need to see significant improvement from Patterson and Bunkley to know they are going to be our starting DT tandem for the next 6 years. I think Ramsay and Raegor will be nice subs, but we need good strong reps from those two first rounders going forward.
c) LB. Only because we have such an interesting cast and turnover at this spot going into 2007. Spikes and Trotter need to stay healthy. Gocong and Gaither need to emerge as real threats. I'd love to see Bradley step in and contribute his rookie year. This could be a GREAT force on the team if everyone stays healthy and steps up, but we've seen enough disappointments at this spot to err on the side of pessimism.
We're fine at secondary; Considine will be better, no more Lewis blowing coverages on top WRs, Mikell is a great backup, and this team has an excellent track record on developing scrub CBs like Hanson, James, and Hood into serviceable players.
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