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Exactly. I believe The Athletic has our defense ranked 23rd IIRC and I would be more inclined to believe that ranking than this one, just my opinion.
Too many unknowns on the D to rank it anywhere at this time and the DC wasn't a DC in his last two stops. The D has changed out the front and back end and we don't know what we've got.
 

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Too many unknowns on the D to rank it anywhere at this time and the DC wasn't a DC in his last two stops. The D has changed out the front and back end and we don't know what we've got.
About the only thing we do know is we lost a great corner, I don’t think Diggs will be anywhere as close to as good as Jones his first year and we lost our best pass rusher and sack leader.

For some reason a lot of fans seem to minimize their absence because one didn’t get any INT’s and the other wasn’t good against the run :rolleyes:
 

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About the only thing we do know is we lost a great corner, I don’t think Diggs will be anywhere as close to as good as Jones his first year and we lost our best pass rusher and sack leader.

For some reason a lot of fans seem to minimize their absence because one didn’t get any INT’s and the other wasn’t good against the run :rolleyes:
That's the trend here as it was on DC.com. "We're fine, he wasn't that good and X will do well" becomes "why in the hell did they let him go"? We have the tendency to undervalue players they let walk.

I watch CB play more than anything except I admit being follow the ball on the live plays. Byron Jones coverage in the first 2 seconds was dead on. He's not a picker, his ball awareness and skills are not very good but as far as making the QB look elsewhere for a target, he was first rate. Hell, with the speed of most CB's, if they had ball skills they'd be WR's and make more money.
 

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Outside DL 18............ if only there were some possible solutions to fix that problem.
 
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