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Think I done this a couple of years ago, but here's what the starting Offense and Defense looked like from the highest 11 snap-counts.

Carter (55.8%) - Love (50.5%) - Wilfork (86.8%) - Anderson (47.6%)
Ninkovich (82.3%) - Spikes (40.1%) - Mayo (83.1%)
Arrington (86.8%) - Ihedigbo (67.6%) - Chung (56.8%) - McCourty (84.2%)

Now, it may just be me, but I don't think we saw that combination of players much at all this season, if at all? As that defense doesn't look that bad... or am I over-rating some of them

In terms of Offense, you've got the obvious Offensive Line (Light, Mankins, Connolly, Waters, Solder) with Gronkowski, Welker, Hernandez and Branch. Green-Ellis played a few more snaps more than Woodhead to take the 5th spot. Oh, and Brady was the QB.

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Paul from London

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As Fred Kirsch, the great philosopher once said:

"Did you have a thumb up her ass?"

Well you certainly are over-rating some of them if you think that looks OK.

I love Kyle (no pun intended ) but he's not a starting calibre player and I'll be furious if Ihedigbo plays anything even approaching 67% next year. Try 6.7!

I actually think Love was one of the 7 or 8 on that list that I'd be happy to start week-in, week-out in a 3-4.

Love, Wilfork, Deaderick are all capable NFL starters on the D-Line.

Anderson could be a capable NFL starter, but could easily be upgraded. Carter could be injured.

I'd happily start 3 of the Secondary and keep Ihedigbo on the bench, and the 3 LB's are talented in different ways and Ninkovich is now a credible starting OLB in the NFL.

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Paul from London

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As Fred Kirsch, the great philosopher once said:

"Did you have a thumb up her ass?"

I dunno I think we need (at least):

- one 3-4 DE or 4-3 DT depending on the scheme
- one edge rusher, probably two if Carter is done
- one corner
- one safety

all of which need to be able to play significant time, or even start, from day one

I disagree on Corner and Safety. I think we need one or the other.

For example, sign Brandon Carr, move DMc to Safety and the Secondary is sealed. We need a Safety, but not one that has to start.

We need a edge-rusher to play opposite Ninkovich.

I think Deaderick is now a Starter when healthy, but we do need DL help I agree there. Love would be a very good rotational player on our line.

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Paul from London

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As Fred Kirsch, the great philosopher once said:

"Did you have a thumb up her ass?"

Yeah Deaderick and Love are ideal for a rotational role. I wanna go back to 3-4 though and that means we need a DE.

I totally disagree that moving McCourty to safety fixes the secondary. I've never seen him play safety well. At least I've seen him play corner well for a year.

I'm interested to see where they put him in Training Camp.

He has very good ball skills, but if he can't play press coverage, they'll run slants on him all day now that it's been exposed. I'm sure that Bill has a plan to get him back to his pro-bowl self.

There are no Safeties available that we need. I have no interest in Mark Barron. Too much like Chung. Goldson won't be leaving San Fran.

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"Did you have a thumb up her ass?"

I like Barron and I think he's potentially a lot better than Chung. I don't like having Chung in coverage but I think Barron has some decent ball skills and I think with the number of quality slot receivers and more importantly tight ends in the league now there's something to be said for having guys like Barron back there to deal with that threat of the catch over the middle. Especially with how bad some of our linebacker play was this year.

If there's no decent pass rushers or corners available when we pick I'm going Barron without hesitation.