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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The offense over the last 5 years has been the best in the game.
The defense has spent a good part of those last 5 years being a tire fire.
Where would YOU have us allocating the largest chunk of our draft capital, ace?
We clearly needed to fix the D. It appears we have largely done so. In the process we've seen some misfires on offense that will almost certainly sort themselves out by the end of the season and we'll STILL have a top 5 scoring unit. And if that's not the case, the amount of capital we've put into the D over the last several seasons will allow us to address the O this coming offseason.
This is how it works when you have limited capital. You attack areas that need to be attacked and then as the disparity between offense/defense starts to level off, you can be more even in how you approach the two.
Pretending like we should've thrown as much capital in the draft at the league's top ranked offense as we do one of it's worst ranked defenses is kinda silly...
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And that has been acknowledged plenty. Yeah we had to fix our defense. But you’re also recognizing that in doing so we had to short shrift fixing the offense which goes against saying we’ve been throwing lots of resources at the offense.
Now… I would be good with top 10 defense vs top 3-5 if it meant more stacking the offense. And I disagree that being great meant we should have largely ignored positions like OT and WR for years (we should have at least looked at lots of value ideas the minute we signed Sammy Watkins). But whatever. Can’t get mad at the results and if this defense now allows us to pivot to offense in coming years, great. I’m cool with that. if this is the year to see how many young WRs we can build a base around… great. But that is different from saying this is aggressive or that the main hurdle is just to find jujus replacement equivalent.