HAwkblogger's been right before and just as spectacularly wrong in his assessments. And that's expected from someone looking at things purely as an outsider. He has no access to film, indoors practices, weight rooms, locker rooms, coaches meetings, etc. You can only glean so much information from watching a practice.
In 2011 we had clearly moved away from the Holmgren era of soft small defenses and it was easy to see the difference. We became big strong and fast. I still think we are that way but its less pronounced and shocking so we don't stand out.
But there are places I think we look stronger this year than the last two: RB, OL, DT, LB. There are places we look less talented: DB, WR, DE. QB is the same. TE just switched the emphasis from pass catcher to inline blocking specialist.
The interesting thing is whether the young guys we have can blossom and bring the weaker areas up to snuff. Hawkblogger is skeptical. I'll choose to wait until preseason games to start worrying about the young secondary and WR corps. And if Earl finally shows up I don't think a secondary of Griffin, Maxwell, Coleman, Earl and McDougald will be all that bad. That leaves WR and DE as positional issues but if we can run the ball, we can suck at WR. If the DT's can get pressure we can get away with less DE pass rush.
