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Just want to know how you feel about about important units and positions on a football team? Maybe breaking it down this way will help to clarify the way our team needs to go in the future.

I will start out with units: IMO
1.Defense
2.Offense
3.Special teams

Now for positions: IMO
1. Quarterback
2.Middle Linebacker
3.Nose Tackle
4.Safety
5.Left Tackle
6.Tight end
7.Running Back
8.Receiver
9.Defensive end
10.Place kicker

What do ya think and how do you feel we are at these areas?

Priority Units....

1. Defense
2. Offense
3. Special Teams

Positions of need...in order

1. Offensive Tackle
2. Nose Tackle
3. Defensive Ends for the 3-4
4. Offensive Guards
5. RB
6. WR
7. CB
8. QB
9. Place Kicker

I did the same thing you did, in that I listed Defense as my # 1 priority, but my top positional need was Offensive Line.... <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I feel that you win with defense, but our OL needs so much work that it has to have the top positional requirments in the draft.... but 2 of my top three positional needs are on Defense.... That's primarily because we need to pick up OT and DL help at the top of the draft... we can pick up guards later. Braybaby is a question mark, so I rate WR right after Running Back. No QB can win without an O Line... , so I don't rate QB high for this year.... To me, CB is a bigger problem area than QB.... TE and Linebacker are our 2 strongest positions....

JMHO

units:

1a-Defense
1b-Offense (IMO, you can't put 1 over the other b/c you can't leave either unit far behind in the building process and expect to win many games)
2-STs

positions:

1-QB (can't avoid that one...we have one currently playing below avg.)
2-LT (ok, maybe some bias here, but a cornerstone of all good offenses...we don't have one)
3a-C
3b-NT (b/c the middle of the lines should define the attitude, IMO, and they have a lot to say about the golden key in the NFL...running and stopping the run, which are equally important...got a great C who may never play again, and a once-great, soon-to-be coaching NT)
5-S (organize the DBs and act as the enforcers...we're in pretty good shape here)
6-RB (if you can't run the ball, well, you can't do much of anything else...see Browns' 2006 season)
7-OLB (slightly ahead of the ILB, simply b/c they provide more passrush in our scheme, and so they're affecting pass game as much as the run game...we've got a stud in the making, and a stud in the breaking)
8-ILB (without talent and expereince here, guys fail to attack the right gaps, and opponents are gonna have a 4 ypc avg. no matter how good your NT is...we've got some hope here between the two rooks)
9a-WR/TE (i wouldn't have said this before the year started, but the Pats' struggles and the TO/Braylon influence lifts the position for me...you need guys with BOTH talent AND humility...we've got 1, and 3 more currently lacking the humility part...yeah i haven't forgot Wilson's 'best WR in the draft' comment)
9b-CB (not so much for the 'shut-down' aspect, which is almost a myth, but b/c they're a huge part of having a good TO ratio, aka the single most improtant statistic in the game...IF we ever get Baxter back, i don't expect he'll be what he was, so really, we'll have 1 starter and 2 nickel guys at that point...the draftees have shown nothing)

so by my count, we only need to improve 7/10 positions to compete! <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />