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What do y'all think needs to go right next year to be a contender again? I think we are a lot closer than many of you think....

Coaching
Personally, I think we need an offensive minded head coach for the team. Hopefully someone with NFL experience is available but more than likely I think we go with Lincoln Riley, if we go the offense minded HC route. With our talent on Offense, having a coach that knows what he's doing will work wonders. Also having a young innovative mind would be great for us, as long as it isn't Scamahan.

On the Defense we need to a have a mix of different coaching changes. We need a disciplined, technically proficient DC who isn't going to allow our Defense to beat itself with penalties. If we can find a motivational DL coach, to balance with the strict DC a bit, with an eye for talent to help us motivate our young guys into better ball players.

Current Roster Shake Ups

Defense: On defense we need a Safety overhaul, I think trading Rico and possibly cutting or drafting a high round SS for Keanu would be great. Clearly this defensive roster was build with a solid back end in mind, and if that goes out with our undersized front seven it's a problem. Put Kazee at FS, have Keanu and a young SS back there and we'll be solid there.

For LB's we are obviously losing at least 2 guys, so this will be a big need come draft time. Campbell is probably gone, I would like to keep him, and one of our vets we brought in is also probably gone. Oluokun can and should receive more playing time whether Campbell moves on or not, and moving to a 3 LB set more often would be wise, but with our current makeup and future in mind im not sure how that happens.

On the line we need DE depth, we don't keep Vic unless he comes back for a cheap rotational job (he'll get better offers). We need a Big (not 6'2 250) athletic DE with our 1st round pick. If we don't I don't see how our defense improves too much. As for DT we need a Big guy who can take on double teams like Davison, but he may walk.

Offense: the only thing that takes priority over a defensive pick in the first 4 rounds of the draft is drafting youth along the offensive line. We need more young depth.

If we spent a 4th on a young athletic QB to sit and learn from MR for a few years I wouldn't be mad either.

Draft

Maximizing our picks for draft day is Paramount to returning to relevancy in the NFC. We will get a comp pick or two, probably somewhere in the 4th-6th range, so that helps. We will need a lot of picks, hopefully we can find another 3rd and 4th somewhere, and pick some promising new guys to come into playing time. Y'all already know my priorities for the draft but here we go again...

we need a DE with our 1st top 5 --- Chase Young, or the guy out of Iowa. We need a promising DE here. We could go for the guy from Auburn, I wouldn't mind (theyre my SEC team, War Damn), but we have Grady already and need to balance our pass rush with someone consistent on the outside.

After that we need more picks a long the O-line and D-line, the only other pick in the top 3 rounds we should pick up would be a SS or LB.

1st 2nd pick --- go C/G, DT, LB or SS here.

2nd 2nd pick --- again go C/G, DT, LB or SS here.

1st 3rd pick --- Again go C/G, DT, LB or SS here.

2nd 3rd pick --- Again go C/G, DT, LB or SS here.

With our 2 4ths we could have a little bit of fun here, once we get our needs out of the way we could pick up another potentially great TE to pair with Hoop, possibly go with a tall WR to replace Sanu, get another LB or OL to shore up depth There...

1st 4th pick --- OL, get an athletic strong T that can slide inside and get to the second level if need be. Someone that can play any position on the OL.

2nd 4th pick --- with a coach like Lincoln Riley , i think he could find us Another athletic blocking TE to pair with Hooper.

I'm not going to do the rest of the picks.

In my ideal situation we have a Top 5 pick, and 2 picks in every round down to the 4th. If we have to trade up in my scenario to achIeve that then so be it. Having 7 1st-4th round picks is asking for a lot but it's possible and been done before.

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