Zombie, I will agree that our depleted line play added to the backers issues no doubt.
We undermanned the front last season, got hit by a couple of untimely injuries with Jenkins and Barnett going down, but to excuse any group that could have changed the outcome isn't correct either, IMO.
Lessons were hopefully learned last season, like if Harrell isn't ready to play game one, don't count on him game 6. Keep the numbers until players prove they can help the team along.
The worst sign last season, to me, is that we were missing an attitude in the box on defense..
Fast forward to this season and the makeup of this staff, we should have plenty of attitude with Trgovac and Greene being added.. Mike's contributions and impact to this 09' defense have been under estimated to this point IMO.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"