27. Ndamukong Suh 85. Lamar Miller 86. Jarvis Landry 98. Reshad Jones Four players, that's a heck of a haul. Now that you've got a real coach, you'll get more players on this list (not many teams have more than four) & the wins will start racking up.
I'm hoping Suh shows the dominance he showed in Detroit before he came here. If he plays to his potential he should be higher. And of course we got rid of Miller (not too happy about that move).
Well we don't have Miller anymore so technically it's three going into this season, but I do agree that we have enough top end talent given good coaching. Wake is unquestionably on that level when healthy. IMO Pouncey is among the best Cs when healthy. Jordan (TE) has been on that level as have Alonso (LB) and Williams (DE). I also think that most believe that Parker (WR) has the talent to reach that class. There are others whom I believe have the talent to be on that level as well, but I don't want to have this devolve into a debate about individual players. Obviously, not every one of these guys will have career years, reach their potential or even be healthy, but the point is that we have enough guys with top end talent. Our issue in recent years has been having too many weak links on the back end of the roster. Good coaching can hide those guys or just be smart enough not to rely on them, but we lacked that as well. We'll see what our final roster looks like, but my initial impression is that we have improved our bottom of the roster talent. Hopefully, Gase and company will prove worthy of all the accolades we keep hearing about them.
Mostly on offense, but on defense I think our depth is still lacking. We have very poor depth at CB and LB with some injury-prone guys as starters. I think our defense can be very good, but we're going to need some luck on the injury front (knock on wood).
I saw CB in particular as one of our weak links, There were just too many mental breakdowns at second CB (and at S), but I like what we added there. I don't see any superstars, but I see enough talent there to reasonably expect solid play there three or four deep. I saw MLB as a weak link most of the season, but I always thought we had enough talent there. If Alonso plays just decently then I see our talent on the defensive side, especially at the bottom end of the roster as improved.
I agree with the sentiment on Jones, he should be much higher, higher than Miller or Landry, a top 50 player imo.
Love Jones as a player but he gets picked on by qbs quite a bit in coverage. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
