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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I feel that opening night loss to a bad team in the Redblacks could be costly for them. This is not a season where they can likely afford to lose too many games to bad/mediocre teams as they are probably going to struggle to beat top teams and end up around .500 by the fall leaving small margins for error if they ever can put together even 3/4 of a healthy roster by then. If they lose more players tonight (which is highly likely) it's going to be as bleak a scenario as we have seen maybe ever as DD already has very little to work with. Adversity is good but this is getting a little ridiculous.
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At best this club is average themselves when factoring in all the defections and injuries, and i think its a fools errand to expect anything else.
Even if Bo isn't gone for more than 6 weeks, he is only one player. The Oline is very much still a work in progress in both run and pass blocking. The amount of loss on defense of really good players is simply way to much to ask them to overcome in one off season. They have lost two DL starters for the season.
I expect DD will have the guys he does have around to be as good as they can be, but that will still pale in comparison to many other teams.
The season might of started as a re-tooling of things, but with what has occurred this is now a full rebuild.
I'm not even that annoyed by it either as we have had a decade+ of highly competitive and winning football in this city. Was never going to last forever.