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So it seems to me the 2016 DL might even be characterized as deep.

If everything breaks right, players develop well, and no one gets hurt, sure. But no one was expecting Nwafor to retire, and it's pretty easy to imagine us having far fewer problems if he were around and healthy these past couple years. You never know what will happen, and reading through your optimistic case it just seems like a lot of things have to go our way for DL to be a strength. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that it's likely to be a weakness, but there's some upside there.

[stupac2]

So it seems to me the 2016 DL might even be characterized as deep.

If everything breaks right, players develop well, and no one gets hurt, sure. But no one was expecting Nwafor to retire, and it's pretty easy to imagine us having far fewer problems if he were around and healthy these past couple years. You never know what will happen, and reading through your optimistic case it just seems like a lot of things have to go our way for DL to be a strength. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that it's likely to be a weakness, but there's some upside there.