re: How bad will be next year?

sadly we will still be playing against a bunch of spread teams with brooks Ellis playing MLB unless Khalia Hackett can actually Hackett. we are now seeing why we tried to give that guy every chance to take that job this offseason and it's because brooks is just not the kind of athlete who can handle these teams. he is an old school NFL style middle linebacker. he can bring the wood in the run but is awful in coverage. De'jon Harris is the kind of athlete we need at MLB and has the size already. I hope he can learn the scheme quickly or Carmouche can. we really in a bad way need a freshman or one of our more athletic linebackers to pick up the scheme better so on 3rd downs or against spread teams we can take brooks out of the game because he is a liability at this time. I expect greenlaw to really grow this offseason and shore up some of the linebacker problems. brooks on the other hand is really about as good as he is going to get I'm afraid. I believe he will improve but he isn't suddenly going to gain a ton of athleticism over the offseason.

there are some who say that it doesn't matter about our pass rush because the qbs are getting the ball out so fast that they couldn't get to the qb anyways. I disagree whole heartedly and believe Agim will bring the pass rusher with some explosiveness we are missing. even if qbs are getting the ball out quickly we need to get some guys who can disrupt the pocket with thier explosiveness and be able to get thier arms up to clog passing lanes because right now we just don't have a guy who can really explode off the line and I think that has more to do with our terrible secondary than anything. scheme also is a problem as well in some regards.