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Originally Posted by NBT
Very well said CD. I agree pretty much in all respects. We had a lot of injuries last year, and the defense really let us down. Koobs wasn't entirely responsible for that. This Draft, coming before FA and all, will be instrumental in whether or not we can reach that next step.
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I have to disagree on the injuries and I guess I have a question. What is your baseline for injuries; i.e., are you starting with the notion that we should make it through the season with zero injuries or are you starting with some "average" amount that can be expected due to the violent nature of the sport and concluding ours were above the norm? To me, last year's injuries don't stand out unless you start with the assumption that we should be able to get through the season injury free. However, virtually every NFL team loses several starters to season-ending injuries every year. Nobody makes it through an NFL season unscathed. Looking back at our injuries last year, I wouldn't put our injuries as out of the ordinary for a given NFL season. QB, RB, offensive line all were virtually injury free last year. AJ was dinged up but primarily played through it. I can't think of any significant injuries on offense last year, but I'm probably forgetting something. The defense saw Demeco and Barwin go down (Mario's IR came long past the point where it mattered IMO). Demeco clearly hurt, but Barwin was an unproven, role player who we really didn't know what we were going to get from him. It's hard to say a second-year back-up going down makes or breaks a season. If you really want to see a team that battled injuries, take a look at what the Packers went through last year and they won it all.