Fat Toad;4390626 said:
Did you watch the 2009 season?
Our defense was average but ranked 2nd in points allowed due to Romo's efficient and mistake free control of the offense.
Yet people like to point to that year as a year we had a dominant defense. This defense has never been dominant. You return largely the same players and then they just fall off a cliff? That's not a dominant defense at all.
All good teams have something they can lean on. You have your teams who have elite QBs with a great offense. You have your teams who have great defense and solid running games (Even with average QBs). Rarely do you have a mediocre at best to terrible at worse offensive line and a horrible defense and go far in the NFL.
What does that mean? Well, the DL/OL are the most important parts to the makeup of successful defenses and offenses. But no, let's go trade away half a draft for a sub-par WR and then draft a bunch of role playing ST players who don't pan out.