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Love and kisses.

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I have a feeling our offense will be fine, just like always. We have done better than most teams when it comes to plug and play along the offensive line.

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Exactly. The offense is the least of our worries. Let's just see how the new coaching and all of the new player pieces affect the defense. Not to mention, we also have a new special teams coach. Let's not forget that.

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OMG I never even considered that!!

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I am really hope the Rookie gets it done! That would be huge! Being able to run the ball should help take some pressure off too

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Saw the quote and even read the rest of the interview where he explained how that "blow" could be addressed.

Why live in such a vacuum, spk? Good things in life can be good.

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Like being the pixie dust spreader in the interwebs?
Black and gold leotards I'm sure.

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Sure, if I can find a pair. Can't see anything wrong with being positive in life. Give it a try.

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I liked it only because there isn't a love button.

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smh, lmao...And now the Black & Gold Community has a taken a turn to the Surreal this offseason...

Rookies report Wednesday 19 July; Veterans report a week later Wednesday 26 July...

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You're old enough to remember Doris when she was still somewhat of a babe, right, JP? ;)

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But JeanPierre, it's Doris Day! From the times when movies weren't even allowed to show belly buttons. When Playboy couldn't show anything furry below the navel. And that was only if our dad's weren't clever about hiding his magazines. Or worse yet, if mama ruled the roost and he wasn't even allowed to have any. Many a young adolescent had no clue as to what a woman's naughty bits even really looked like. (Sometimes our imaginations weren't our friends.) So much we didn't have back then, but we had Doris Day.

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Back on subject ...

The media is using the decimated defense of last season as the baseline to judge the impact of Fairley's loss to the overall success of the defense. They fail to take into consideration any of the upgrades throughout all three levels AND the impact of new, improved coaching at all three of those levels. Nolan with the LB's, Nielson with the defensive line and Aaron Glenn in his second season, but hopefully the first with all of the starters intact.

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Drew Brees thinks that Raquel Welsh should win the
"Hottest Babe at Any Age Award".

https://img0.etsystatic.com/124/1/96...06766_s7bd.jpg
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...2810?s=612x612

Ok... I made that up... about Brees that is. :p

While she was a beautiful actress, she sucked at acting... but...
this is the kind of woman you wanted to bring home to daddy...your cousins... and friends...
those pictures prove she could be rode hard... and she will still dry off on her own.

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Would you say we made improvements to the defense last offseason? Or the offseason before that? How would you compare them to this offseason?

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Better depth on defense. IMO we didn't have that last season.

Vitt, McMahon and Johnson are also gone :lol:.

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I would say last year was better than the year before and much of that had to do with the acquisition of Rankins and Onyemata. Laurinaitis last year was a bust as a free agent. I see the improvements this off-season to be far and away more dramatic to the potential of the defense. Just starting with the draft ... Lattimore, Marcus Williams, Henrickson, Anzalone, all of whom could end up as starters sooner than later and Muhammad, while raw, has huge potential. Add to that Te'o and Klein coming in as free agents. Veteran Tony McDaniel at DT and Alex Okafor at DE are better additions through free agency than anything we have picked up defensively over the previous two off-seasons. And Rafael Bush at safety adds excellent depth. And that isn't including the top two defensive pickups this off-season, LB coach Mike Nolan and D-Line coach Ryan Nielsen.

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Bingo!

We haven't known for years exactly how much talent we've had on our defense. We can speculate all we want right now and I can't wait until the season to find out for sure.

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I must try setting a long cucumber behind my cat while he is eating.

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I put this one in the bed with my wife and it scared the hell out of her.

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Losing Fairley was a blow to our defensive line. He was the only proven DT on the squad. We may have the depth to survive but I want to dominate in the trenches and With Unger and Armstead both missing time we won't have the depth to take another significant injury to the O-line. Still, we have all camp to find out what works best.