I think this season has a better chance of resembling 2006 than being a down year

saint_drago said

Yeah this is my biggest concern. If the D stinks we'll look back and think we should've seen it coming. It was already going to be hard to replace T Rex, Rankins, and Malcom Brown but then Onyemata had to go off and get himself suspended for a third of the season.

At least we have Ryan Nielsen. He's going to get the best out his guys. Let's just hope their best is good enough.

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Those first three guys you mentioned, I think the Saints felt strongly about our other guys to not have re-signed at least one of them. We have 4 DEs that in theory could all ball out. It's a matter of who is the hungriest. The DT position would have been okay probably, but the Onyemata deal hurt. Hopefully we manage for a little while without him. Corner is anyone's guess. I'm not exactly sure what our plan was all along, but I don't think it worked out like they had envisioned, and now that Latt will probably miss time, it's really worrisome.