It's like everyone is saying. We have too much talent on the defensive side of the ball to play this poorly. We need to rid ourselves of Richard Smith and replace him with Frank Bush or Ray Rhodes. What a horrible defensive effort tonight.
Folks, I will suggest that you go to a site like pro-football reference and check out what other teams have on their Ds, where in the draft they have their players.
Like we ain't drafting high defensively this year, so I can't really say how the other guys are doing.
This is just in 07 - and remember we're not drafting high in D in 08
We had 4 first rounders, two 2nd rounders, on each in the 3rd and the 4th.
(Now my count might be wrong, if you are really interested, help me and go check yourself, please!)
I'm going from A to H here.
ATL, 4-1st, 3-2nd, 1-3rd, 2-4th (hell more than us)
BALT, 5-1st, 2-2nd, 1-4th
CAR, 5-1st, 4-2nd
CHI, 3-1st, 2-2nd, 3-3rd
CINN, 5-1st, 2-2nd, 3-3rd, 2-4th
Girls, 6-1st, 1-2nd, 1-3rd, 2-4th
DEN, 3-1st, 3-2nd, 3-3rd, 2-4th
DET, 3-1st, 8-2nd, 3-3rd
I don't have time to check, but looks like there was trading during the season, so a couple of teams show more than 11 defensive players on the list.
The point is, there were teams who had more talents on the D that under-achieved. And it sure looks like that we have more upside this year as well.