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If you didn't realize today that our biggest need is for a stud DT...

Darth Urious

By Darth Urious,
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pantherj Grand Master

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ozzie> marty.dt is a huge need but the fa dt's are not that bad looking.we must draft luck.....

Who are the DTs who will be free agents? Did anyone ever make a list of who why might want to target? I'm hoping Luck will come out, but from the interviews I've seen I think he's planning to graduate.

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Don't get your hopes up, 31 other teams in the league are going to want Ngata.

True, but 31 other teams haven't been stockpiling money for a year.

Not saying the Ravens will let him walk, because they won't, but if he did somehow make it to FA, then I'd throw the house at him if I were Hurney. That guy could automatically improve the whole team by a few notches.

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Who are the DTs who will be free agents? Did anyone ever make a list of who why might want to target? I'm hoping Luck will come out, but from the interviews I've seen I think he's planning to graduate.

spears, ngata, jenkins, bowen, cesire, jolly, mebane, cofield just to name a few. those 3-4 de could be dt's that collapse the pocket in a 4-3. i like bowen and wonders what he could do in 4-3.

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spears, ngata, jenkins, bowen, cesire, jolly, mebane, cofield just to name a few. those 3-4 de could be dt's that collapse the pocket in a 4-3. i like bowen and wonders what he could do in 4-3.

If Luck doesn't enter the draft, the we could draft DT Nick Fairley, then pick up FA DT Haloti Gnata. I would probably have a heart attack.

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...then you are a casual fan...

This is followed very closely by OL that can block and not get beat every single snap, and then a solid #2 WR that can get open and catch passes that hit him in the hands and face while in the endzone...

Seattle beat the hell out of us, right up the gut, in the second half... Almost every single time they took it up the gut, between the tackles, they ripped off at least 5 or 6 yards... You can thank perennial Pro Bowl selections Nick Hayden and Derek Landri for that... I don't fault Hardy as much on the end because he is a rookie playing beside high schoolers... Charles Johnson can't do it by himself...

All this talk about Luck is dumb when we have way bigger issues... I'd like to see any rookie, or seasoned vet for that matter, come in and complete passes when he has approximately 3 seconds to make a read before someone has penetrated the backfield... Until we fix OL and DT, our QB and defense in general will continue to be worn down/beat up, game after game...

You're right. We need a DT who can collapse the pocket consistently.

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