not a lot to say "we can get over the hump"
we were almost there, they revamped the D. Ok good. got as close as you did, and than revamp the WHOLE D. I would have waited another season before pulling that trigger. That was the year they did Garrett bad. Now, they revamped the D, brought in the future DC, lets not pretend anymore. Than the question becomes, whos the next HC and how will this effect or if you will cascade down to our coaches. That can blow things up for another 2 season.
Best case scenario, as i said to you let it stand for 3 years. Enough progress has not been made and in order to get that progress made, you have to forgo this season and put everything into place. Depth has to be considers, dropping Linehan has got to be consider, which way does the team go. I want them to go run heavy, use your TEs to block and impose our will on the D. Let Dak throw it around, see how the WR corp emerges. Implement the things you want to do this year to go into next year.
The team right now is mish mosh. If the D is good, the O is bad. If the O is good, who knows waht the ST will do, thats been a wild card, and your D is bad. This has got to be streamlined where both units play well together at the same. It happens a game here, a game there, but the whole team has got to be stream lined. Garrett cant get that together. He really has to.
Lets see how the 53 shapes up, and injuries will be the X factor. Things we want to see, the schemes installed, how does the D react to Richard. What does the O line do. These things have to be answered to get the team stream lined and workiing properly, or else you jsut run around fixing broken pipes while other pipes explode on you.