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Our DT are not ready

Punisher

By Punisher,
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some decent options out there......that have no interest in playing in the preseason. hopefully we can get one next week or so.

I hope you are right. I don't think it was the worse thing in the world to wait and see what the young guys at DT have, but the results have not been good by any stretch of the imagination.

I think it is ridiculous to say after 3 preseason games that McClain and Fua can't play, but they are obviously not ready to be starters at this point.

It's hard to spreculate exactly how much Ron Edwards would have helped, but it is beyond frustrating that the team has not fixed this problem over the past 3 years.

Even at DE, I think the team needs to be potentially add someone. I am comfortable starting Johnson and Hardy, but Norwood and Brown are basically the same guy (pass-rush only) and not equipped to be an every down type players. And unfortunately, neither one has shown enough so far as a pass rusher only. Charles Johnson is going to get double-teamed every down as bad as the rest of the line has been so far.

On the O-Line, there really isn't a good alternative on the right side if Schwartz and Otah can't go. It's hard to believe that one or both of them aren't going to miss significant time in the season. RG is a dumpster fire right now. Bernardeau and Duke Robinson are garbage.

I think another frustrating thing about this team is that we have some top end talent (CJ, Beason, TD, Otah, Gross, Kalil, Smitty), but then we have a major drop-off to some of the other guys.

I don't know if we overpaid so much for the guys we kept (I mean, at 2-14 you've got to give a guy incentive to sign), but depth is a big-time concern at every position outside of LB and TE.

Gettis getting hurt sucks- he could at least get open deep. LaFell, Naanee, and Armanti have not shown anything to make you believe they can be a legitimate #2.

I guess the longer I type, the more issues I realize this team has. I haven't ever mentioned QB b/c this is a learning year for Cam, but this team has a lot of issues.

Maybe not Detroit a few years ago issues, but certainly enough that 5-6 wins looks like the ceiling right now.

And I say this as a proud PSL owner who will be at every game

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