Danno

Where do you think we upgraded? Where do you think we downgraded?

Upgraded
DT- Gone are Franklin and Rogers. New arrivals look fast, aggressive and hungry! Hicks appears to be everything we expected, but the emergence of Walker was a pleasant surprise. Adding a young stud in Bunkley makes this the biggest unit upgrade of the year. IMO the best off-season move of this season.

DE- Galette has another year under his belt and looks more like a complete DE than ever before. Wilson started off on fire and tailed off, but I expect he’ll be in our 3rd packages a lot. A healthy McBride will give this unit some stability and depth. Cam Jordan looks like he’ll make that typical huge jump most 2nd year players make.

LB- Losing Vilma hurt, but replacing him with Lofton makes it a wash. Having Ruud as a back-up is an upgrade to Dunbar, who I liked.
Hawthorne ups the talent level of the outside pretty significantly.
Not a huge upgrade due to the loss of Vilma, but a slight upgrade nonetheless.

RB – With the addition of Cadet, we now have two bonafied scat-backs. If they stay healthy, I can’t think of a single team more stacked than we are now.

Downgraded
WR- Its almost a wash since I have high hopes for Morgan, but he still has a long way to go. Having Tanner on the PS and Cammarillo on speed-dial, we’ll be just fine. We were already pretty good to begin with. Even with a slight downgrade this is a top notch unit.

CB- I debated listing this as a downgrade, but we did lose an NFL starter in Porter. Robinson and Patrick will likely be much better than they were last year, and Corey White already looks better than Johnny Patrick did at this point last year. A very slight downgrade, and that’s quite debatable.


OL-Another debatable unit. DLP should be much better than last year, and replacing Nicks with another pro-bowler was truly genius. But when you lose the best OG in the NFL, its gotta be a downgrade, even if only a little.