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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
Overall good comments. Couple of things to add:
- I expect Sills to be on the 2nd team. He filled in well at OG last year.
- Woods could be the guy at TE. He certainly has the athleticism to do it, but more than anything else he needs to stay healthy.
- Sermon played well when given the chance down the stretch last year. He'll definitely get the first crack at RB2 and could be good there. Although not as good as Moss for sure.
- I expect Harrison to start out at LB like he did last year until the injuries at S piled up.
- Don't be surprised if Jaylin Simpson gets moved to FS, especially if Cross and Thomas struggle again this year.
- The secondary is definitely the weak spot of our roster, at least on paper. Still scratching my head on why Ballard didn't bring anyone in other than a couple of late round draft picks. Of course we were saying the same thing about OL last year and that worked out, so fingers crossed this does as well.
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Sills was solid, but I would like to think that they would want to be looking at Freeland, Witt, Goncalves, Bortolini and French, in terms of development. I would also imagine that they are going to want to see how Pinter is after his injury.
As I said originally, we have a lot of experience and mid round draft picks as depth this year, so are in a really good position. Over the past thirty or so years of watching preseason football, it has been hard to watch, as our offense has always struggled because the 2nd string o-line has been so poor, that it has been almost impossible to run any sort of cohesive offense. Marry that with a competent QB and I think this preseason is going to be really fun to watch.
Winning in the preseason means nothing, but I do believe that we have the best depth in the trenches that i can ever remember, on both sides of the ball.