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QB, LT, DE, DT would be my elite players. If you have a decent OL and a great QB, you'll be in playoff contention every single season.
A lot of folks might want both DEs as elite players (who wouldn't?), but if you don't have that disrupter in the middle, 2 outside rushers are much easier to control. I also recall Pat Kirwan saying a few years ago that the holy grail (apart from QB) for most GMs was the pass rusher. But with the advent of more teams running the 3-4 and so many college players being adept now as a 3/4 4/3 hybrid DE/OLB, he said GMs had told him the toughest thing to find now was the disruptive 3 technique DT. Very few teams have one.
Awful would be FB/H back, OG, cb, and SS. If you can find one stout corner to go with a good pass rush, you can have a serviceable defense. You'll give up some big plays, but if you've got to have 4 bad players, they've got to go somewhere. Jimmy Johnson said when Dallas hired him that the keys to a great team were a pass rushing DL and a great QB. 25 years down the road, that's the philosophy I'd still use if I were building a team.
A lot of folks might want both DEs as elite players (who wouldn't?), but if you don't have that disrupter in the middle, 2 outside rushers are much easier to control. I also recall Pat Kirwan saying a few years ago that the holy grail (apart from QB) for most GMs was the pass rusher. But with the advent of more teams running the 3-4 and so many college players being adept now as a 3/4 4/3 hybrid DE/OLB, he said GMs had told him the toughest thing to find now was the disruptive 3 technique DT. Very few teams have one.
Awful would be FB/H back, OG, cb, and SS. If you can find one stout corner to go with a good pass rush, you can have a serviceable defense. You'll give up some big plays, but if you've got to have 4 bad players, they've got to go somewhere. Jimmy Johnson said when Dallas hired him that the keys to a great team were a pass rushing DL and a great QB. 25 years down the road, that's the philosophy I'd still use if I were building a team.
