No! I want Robinson to be our #1 WR!
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. If you glean too much information from forums things can look a lot more desperate than they actually are
To the OP, addition by subtraction. Sad as it is to say, Saffold was too often injured to really be considered a loss to this team. Finnegan was a mistake from the start and Dahl was in a serious state of decline.
The free safety situation is the same as last year, except with our young UDFAs getting another year experience. Who knows, maybe we do have a diamond in the rough, or maybe we will yet acquire serviceable help via. the draft or free agency. But really, we can only go up from there even if we didn't sign the top UFA. Even with those glaring holes a new OLB, the top veteran CB basically not contributing, we still competed well defensively. So no Ragnarock to see there, moving along
Regarding the offensive line, sure there will be turmoil, but that's another area that was been muddled from day one with injuries. What changes is the opportunity to achieve cohesiveness through turnover, sad as that is to say.
So let's just say that the o line is patched in much the same way as it has been in the past, with just a slight improvement. Where does that leave us? I do dare say as you did that Bailey and Austin will perform. I also believe that Quick, Pettis and Cook will continue to improve. Our receiver and tight end core is going to be hard for any team to shut down, not because of any blue chip target, but because of it's match up versatility, especially with Bradford back.
So, I mean really just keeping it in perspective. Dunbar may yet be back, right? That leaves your second year rookie as a backup. And we can already say that our front seven is good. In fact we can choose by BPA for any position of need to improve on our defense, IMO and have a positive impact, be that OLB in place of Dunbar, free safety or even corner.
Because an upgrade at OLB may mean less nickle, better run support and some different blitz packages right? A good safety will help us play tighter man and can help out with run support as well. An upgrade at corner may improve zone coverage on nickle packages.
Sure, we want our own version of Megatron, but who doesn't? The Seahawks won without Calvin Johnson.
We were one win away from .500 last year, and that would have shocked me even before Sam went down, only because of the division we play in and our schedule. I see no reason we won't be at least .500 this year. There you have it, coming from a guy who predicted 4-6 wins at the beginning of last season.
