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We were the most vanilla team in the playoffs....on both sides of the ball, thank god that both MM and BV are out of here. Just like everyone else has said I hate even seeing Matt attempt deep balls because he just flat out sucks at it, and he is the worst at passing outside of the pocket unless its a designed bootleg...when he gets flushed out of the pocket you already pretty much know that the play is over. All and all I do still think that we can win with him but I think that we need to recognize what he is and run our offense accordingly. We have enough talent around him on offense to win we just need to run the offense correctly but the defense needs some work....we need more pressure from the front line and to replace Decoud. The linebackers are fine, I like Lofton and I love Spoon and I think Nichols does a decent job on the other side but the d line is letting the entire defensive unit down, we can't keep relying on Abe by himself to bring pressure...Ray Edwards just pissed me off all year, it was pretty much like he wasn't there 80% of the time. getting pressure up the middle is something we need to work on as well, I like Babs and Peters but they just don't collapse the pocket enough....I hope to see a lot of movement this offseason on defense but I think we'll be fine in the end....I have faith in Dimitroff and Smith, I like Smiths approach and the way he respects and leans on the veterans..I think it makes for a good locker room and the man never gets to high or low on anything and I like that as well but what I really respect about him is that he is who he is and stands behind that. He went for the 4th down against New Orleans early in the year and he was a man in the post game and took full responsibility for it but continued going for it on 4th down through out the year because thats just who he is and I love it.....But most of all I have faith in Arthur Blank, that man will do whatever he needs to do to make this team a winner, he's willing to write the checks to make us a winner and its just great to have an owner like that, we'll be ok people