First of all, it's good to see you back on the board.

Secondly, you clearly made the connection to the French Revolution because the name Bouye sounds kind of Frenchy.

As for the main points of your post, it is actually jarring to see it laid out clearly like that. As you say, even allowing for the usual amount of roster turnover, there is no reason why that entire defense (the best in team history) should have been absolutely gutted in the space of just over two seasons. I still suspect Coughlin has a lot to answer for, but we will almost certainly never know for sure.

As for the actual CBS article about Bouye leaving, they are merely repeating what Oehser said in the OZone recently. Oehser is usually precient about these things, but I'd still be pretty shocked if they let Bouye go purely because they clearly are trying to put a team together to win now. Bouye leaving would leave us with just Herndon as a starting outside CB, and the jury is still out on him. Right now, I'd say Herndon profiles more as a good backup rather than a starter. Bouye's release would leave us seriously struggling on the outside. 

Personally, I'd be fine with them cutting all the aging veterans this offseason and giving our younger fringe players a chance to step up, especially on defense. We have some building blocks in place that should allow us to turn this thing around fairly quickly. It's not a rebuild, it's a restock.

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