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I am not writing this thread in an effort to make it seem like I believe the sky is falling. At worse, we are probably a 10-6 team. Is that acceptable to all of you guys?
Can anyone please explain to me how we have improved this offseason?
We all know that Brady has very few precious years left. What have we done to help him win another championship?
In terms of key losses, defensively we have lost Revis, Browner and Wilfork in order of most important to least important. We lost a few other guys like Casilla but whatever. Wilfork is replaceable and Im not mad about losing him. But what the heck can possibly be done to improve our secondary at this point.
From 2005-2013 we had the worst 3rd down defense i have ever seen. The most frustrating football I have had to watch. We won but it was painful at times. We couldnt get off the field. We had the best QB in the league and we were on defense way too long. It shrunk the length of the game and limited the amount of opportunities Brady had to score. That takes a competetitive advantage of ours away. Over a larger sample size the likelihood Brady will score more Points Per Drive than the other teams QB is brought closer to the mean. In other words, more likely we score more points than the other team. Now that we have a crappy ass secondary again, our offense will have less drives and Brady will have to be more magical again each game to maximize the amount of games we win. At 38/39 years old, not like it used to be.
Offensively, I believe we are fine. Vereen is a good player but replaceable. I think the addition of Chandler is a big move. I would say maybe we are better on offense. Could we use a WR, yes, but i dont consider it a major necessity. I think Chandler and Gronk will make a devastating tandem.
We have a nice offense, but i believe a good to great defense is the most important thing. People will say we won with worse defenses, but that was when Brady was still under 35 years old. Hes almost 40 now. He is not going to be able to do now what he did when he was younger. It's possible but not likely he can keep it up. We need the defense.
Obviously, we have a bunch of quality draft picks, 32nd, 64th, 96th, 98th (i think), and somewhere about 102 I would guess. Thats good. But how many rookies come in and do well their first season? And esepcially drafting at the complete end of the 1st round there is unlikely to be many guys who can step in day 1 and be very effective, at least at CB which is our #1 need.
Are we going to trade a premium pick for a CB (whom probably doesnt exist)? Im confused.
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