BOOM.

PurpleBaze said:

DawgsCanDance said:

Best news possible. Yow, these are 3 great players that will really make a difference. Breathlessly stating the obvious, but this is big for next season and could move this team in the kind of direction I'm hoping for as the doog that i didn't think i still was, but I guess I am.

Next season is going to be special?!

No, not special, but a better team than I expected. a team that has a chance to again do well vs a weak conference, but with a ceiling of being ranked in the 15-20 range.They should have an improved defense depending on who they run about there as the second and third inside linebacker, and whether they can stop getting pushed around on the DL.

Like a lot of people I’m not impressed with the rotation decisions at inside linebacker and believe we are behind the 8 ball unless they can develop some of the guys that I had hoped we would see this year. The fact that we didn’t see anyone emerging like we needed does not fuel my optimism for next years play at ILB, which is the core of any defense

I don’t think we saw the game planning on offense that spells success either, the players balled out when in desperation mode which is great, but good coaching and game planning prevents the team from getting into that position in the first place and we didn’t see it.

The best thing is that the return of these 3 players could help them recruiting, and while that is my hope, unless they change out a couple of guys, this staff just delivered the worst class in a Iot of years. Unless they change up their recruiting in a big way, next year might be the last team with the core of talent that has taken years to acquire.