Defense Next Year

I'll take a break from my usual O Bashing to start an actual discussion thread (that will inevitably lead to some O bashing, I admit).

I think our front 7 will actually be pretty dangerous next season. What I'm worried about, and I never thought I'd say this with Raymond running DBs, is our secondary. We'll have Greedy and Fulton (unproven) on the outside with some solid safeties over the top. The problem is the slot.

If you recall, majority of the time, when the D was faced with 3 or 4 wide, Jackson would slide into the slot with Greedy and Toliver on the outside (sometimes they'd bring in Vincent to play the slot later in the season). One of the reasons for that is slot receivers tend to be smaller, shiftier route runners with good hands. I'm worried we don't have the depth at CB to be able to sacrifice the outside by putting Greedy or Fulton in the slot. This will become a huge issue when we play spread offenses. And even when we play pro-style as they'll just run 3 and 4 WR sets on us all day.

Bottom line, when we play teams that run spread or have 3-4 solid WRs to run 3-4 wide sets, we may be in trouble. I like to think Aranda is genius enough to work around and hide the deficiencies of his personnel, but it is worrisome.