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DH13 posted:

Problem is at what point does the year after year of spending on FA and draft capital on D become too much for the depleted offense to overcome?  Everyone is excited about Gutey finally turning his efforts to the O but it looks like he still has patches to fix on D.  Can't afford to fix them all, especially drafting at #30.

It sure feels like the "year after year of spending " has been devoted to the defense for an eternity. A lot of that is compounded because of all of the misses (Ugh)...but at this point the defense only used 27.65% of the Salary Cap in 2019(ranked 30th NFL). Certainly that can and will change quickly...but @#%

I don't think the offense is depleted to where it cant be fixed relatively quickly with a few tweaks(Optimist alert!!). In ignoring the offense Gute used a D2 for Elgton Jenkins, and added Billy Turner as a spendy FA... OL, RB, QB, #1WR are in relatively good shape aside from the typical off season roster patching needed(Bulaga a big one). If he can add a good #2 WR it will go a long way....then the TE, RB / OL depth, etc....are just business as usual.

Agree that it will be a challenge to patch everything. As good as 13-3 was, the strong needs at ILB, ILB, DE, WR, TE, (RT?), etc...are apparent. 

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