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[QUOTE="OrangeMuskyFish, post: 22032, member: 261"]
Alongside Delone, Long was the biggest loss in my book. Losing those two guys shifted our strengths entirely. Figuring out how to replace them, or hide that flaw if there are no suitable replacements, will decide if we tread water or push forward this year.

As for the rest of the points, I am not really that surprised.

-Sales was not our best receiver. In 2011-12, BOTH Chew and Lemon have the opportunity to match what Sales did in his three COMBINED years of play. He is missed, but Chew and Lemon have proven that, when healthy, the reason Sales sat so long might not have been completely due to a cloak & dagger issue.

-Hogue and Smith were great, but I always thought that bringing in kids specifically to play LB would decrease the learning curve and would have them catching up to their predecessors rather quickly. Avoiding that drastic drop-off that many feared would occur.

-Like the LBs, Holmes and Merk had done some bouncing around themselves. You could play "what if" all day in regards to where we'd be if we still had these two, but the same coaching that turned them into very good players will do the same with their replacements. Sooner rather than later.

-The DTs were overrated. They did their jobs, but they weren't playmakers and they weren't all that big... so while the new wave are smaller than we would like to see, their athleticism is helping to even the playing field.
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