@jafbf said: The more I think about, the more I'm undecided on our D this year : Taylor's status coming back from two injuries last year has me questioning if he'll even be available for TC, plus it raises pretty big durability questions. Well, I see him as getting healthy.....and I see him as having his work load reduced somewhat with the additions....thus he can be more productive in his time in there. Shelton ? Is he the real deal or another swing and miss we're so prone too, and is he healthy/durable ? How can anyone know that until he gets in and plays? We lost Rubin, Sheard (?), and Skrine that I can think of - their replacements are question marks (ability wise) to me right now. To me, their replacements are no bigger question mark than those guys would have been . Gilbert I'm hoping the switch gets/has gotten flipped, but I think I saw a blurb where he was having to take care of a "personal" issue again - which is what sank him last year. I like Dansby, but he's getting up there in years for the position he plays. Gibson came in injured after holding out and recovering from the knee injury last year . . . so WTF? Who is this? We do not have a player on the roster by that name. Kirksey and Mingo I really hope start pulling it together, and I'm cutting Mingo slack since he was playing with one good arm last year. Agree.....but I also have hopes for Hayes Pullard to contribute well at MLB. If we can get a handle on our Run D and maintain our Pass D we might be looking at something Let's stay healthy.....I see that as the biggest factor of all along our front 7 Sorry to sound like such a downer or rain on people's parade, but we've been sold a lousy Bill of goods about an awesome Defense too many times for me to keep buying it. Fair enough. As I noted for last year....the Bill of goods came with some defects because we lost so many game days off the DL because of injury.