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Originally Posted by Rain Man
It's kind of cruel that the weakest unit on our team is the defensive line, and it's the unit that has been flooded with first-round picks for years.
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The problem isn't so much that we drafted defensive linemen that high that often, it's that we ran a defense where d-linemen aren't playmakers and used that strategy anyway.
Our defense was close to being elite if we stayed in a 4-3 until Pioli force-fitted his system in. It's absolutely crazy to think about how things would be different if we fired Gunther and Peterson didn't idiotically chase Jared Allen away. We could have had Allen-Dorsey-Raji-Hali or with the Allen trade Orakpo-Dorsey-Tank Bailey-Hali.