Quote:No roster is going to be perfect. Our defense might get better next year but guess what, everyone else has a chance to get better too. The Colts will have Luck healthy for a whole season. Maybe the Texans get a QB. Titans won't be as bad as they were this year.

 

We had a chance to take a really poor division (like the Redskins did) but instead squandered it. You can put all the blame on the pass rush all you want but I think a better coach would have found a way to win some more games. (I'm not a coach so I don't know what those ways are)

 

Our crappy defense certainly played a part in our record. But the Texans made the playoffs with Hoyer and Yates.... Colts came close with Hasselbeck and Whitehurst. Everyone has injuries.

Every roster has an area to upgrade, I agree. We'll never, EVER have the best player at every position, but you have to have at least a reasonably efficient player at a position, especially one as important as disrupting the guy who throws the ball and makes the points happen, to win some games. We didn't have any of those players. I said I 'doubt' a better coach could have gotten reasonable play out of Old Clem or Branch, but who's to know? I'm making an assumption on what I saw those players do and how ineffective they were at a position of GREAT importance to the direct outcome of a game. 

 

I was mostly countering your argument for why Dallas stunk with our similar situation of crappy players at important positions. That's all. 

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