its Jacoby. For some reason, as soon as I read “what terrifies you” I thought of Jacoby. But that doesn’t answer the question.

I agree on defensive tackle. I really hope we step it up this year.

I’d like to see more of DelJuan this year.

well for DEPTH…I’d have to say QB (although I do really like our off-season acquisition) If our man went down, I don’t have the same expectation for a system neophyte that I had for Sage. This season hinges on Schaub. Slaton is a big part, but Schuab is crucial!

for STARTING talent I’d say CB is our position that most concerns me…esp. with “Dunta-Gone-Crazy” playing at Reliant…I am concerned about not having a single lockdown guy even though we will be rushing 45 guys, I still would love to have one lockdown corner on this team. I think we might be lucky we don’t have any elite QB/WR tandems in our division aside from ourselves.

Tim, I’d like to start off by saying that I agree with everything you said:

1) TJ being on the line is a problem for me, and I hope he gets replaced asap
2) I’m a big Amobi supporter, but who knows when he’ll stop being a ‘project’ and start being the dominant DT he’s capable of being
3) Okam has the tools but where’s the desire?

I still believe that this is not our biggest weakness however, simply because of injury concerns. Personally, I’d rather have just about any other DT on our roster starting in place of TJ (not because of ability necessarily, but because of dumb***, boneheaded plays that result in personal foul flags being thrown). If Amobi produces next season like he did last season, it won’t make any difference if he goes down. While we could definitely use an upgrade, I don’t think that if any one of these players gets hurt next year, that it will have any impact at all on our team’s success.

I know I’m kicking a dead horse, but running back depth is definitely our biggest weakness. If Slaton goes down, we lose a whole dimension of our offense. Sure we could plug in Ryan Moats, who could prove to be a solid backup, but we all know that he is not a home-run threat that Slaton is. He may even average a little over 4 yards / carry, but opposing teams will still not have to worry about one guy breaking a tackle and taking it to the house. I believe that if Slaton gets hurt, opposing defenses will have the confidence to tighten up and focus more on our passing game, which would probably drop us down to the middle of the pack, offensive ability-wise.

I’m not arguing that we should pick another small ‘scat-back’ like Slaton in the draft and hope that he turns out to be half as good as Steve is (to provide more of that home-run threat), but I really do think we should have taken someone that we know we can count on to take pressure off of Slaton, and hopefully reduce his injury risk.

DT will be a top two pick need next year I believe (unless Cody or Okam take a leap forward), but I believe that we need a complimentary running back more than anything if we’re going to be successful (and I don’t think we need one in the first two rounds, just somewhere between round 3 and 5 where there’s still a good chance that a player will contribute earlier).