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Jikkle
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Despite the 34-0 drubbing yesterday and being beat handily by the Ravens I really don't think feel there are a lot of major concerns and I don't think the scores are really indicative at all to how are season is going to play out.
The concerns I have though are:
1) Backup QB - The obvious elephant in the room and really the main reason why the preseason has looked way worse than it has. If Kap is gone for the year our season is sunk but that's almost every team in the league but you do want to have a backup that could win you a game or two if Kap does go out and so far no one has shown they would even be close.
2) ILB - Neither Borland or Wilhoite have really taken command of the position and clearly neither one is going to be Bowman you would like to see them both play better. Borland seems like he quicker to the ball but he's just getting fooled way too badly out there so I think we'll ultimately go with Wilhoite who did fill in fairly well for Bowman last year and won't be the liability mentally that Borland is.
3) Safety depth - Our depth behind our starting Safeties is terrible and we better hope we never need to dip into our depth. It's bad enough that we would likely move Ward to Safety in the event if one of our safeties did get injured.
4) Culliver - This one was a concern prior to preseason and while he didn't do anything to add to my concerns he didn't do anything to ease them either. Typically CBs take a full season of playing before they bounce back from an ACL tear so crossing my fingers that it's not to the case with Cully.
5) Looney - This one is minor to me as Looney was a better player yesterday than against the Ravens but I would still put it as a concern until he gets more reps and prove himself more.
Overall though I see little reason to hit the panic button thus far and I'm actually more pleased at some of the things I've seen than dismayed.
The concerns I have though are:
1) Backup QB - The obvious elephant in the room and really the main reason why the preseason has looked way worse than it has. If Kap is gone for the year our season is sunk but that's almost every team in the league but you do want to have a backup that could win you a game or two if Kap does go out and so far no one has shown they would even be close.
2) ILB - Neither Borland or Wilhoite have really taken command of the position and clearly neither one is going to be Bowman you would like to see them both play better. Borland seems like he quicker to the ball but he's just getting fooled way too badly out there so I think we'll ultimately go with Wilhoite who did fill in fairly well for Bowman last year and won't be the liability mentally that Borland is.
3) Safety depth - Our depth behind our starting Safeties is terrible and we better hope we never need to dip into our depth. It's bad enough that we would likely move Ward to Safety in the event if one of our safeties did get injured.
4) Culliver - This one was a concern prior to preseason and while he didn't do anything to add to my concerns he didn't do anything to ease them either. Typically CBs take a full season of playing before they bounce back from an ACL tear so crossing my fingers that it's not to the case with Cully.
5) Looney - This one is minor to me as Looney was a better player yesterday than against the Ravens but I would still put it as a concern until he gets more reps and prove himself more.
Overall though I see little reason to hit the panic button thus far and I'm actually more pleased at some of the things I've seen than dismayed.