Is Spoon overrated by our fan base ?

[Xanthri]

I wasn't sold on spoon when we drafted him...but seriously he has matured into a great leader for our D....I loved lofton and was sad to see him go, then he went to the saints....and I put him in the traitor pile. Spoon will continue to grow our problem was our whole defense.....we need to add some young high motor talent (like spoon ) to this defense.....

I do think we should stress tackling first because we had a lot of big plays where the guy was hit but not wrapped up....

If we add a Kearny like DE, a mauling NT, and a LB/DB tweener (one of those smaller LB that has massive speed) on this defense for Nolan and he will start tearing it up.....his defensive scheme always needed high energy tweener players (the good news for us...there are plenty because most teams won't the proto-type LB/DB/DL......Nolan made SF defense go from 24 to 18 to 5 now he isn't there but his guys are now one of the top.......we will get there....we didn't have a lot of cap room last year....and really we didn't do very much at all for our defense......

Jury is still out on Massaqou, I still think the kid has potential if he can learn nolan's style......but we still need more LB.....our LB core and DE situation is TERRIBLE....I like Bierman but we need one of the two DE pressuring the QB and While bierman is decent he needs to improve....love his motor hate his techniques they are sloppy. Thought Sidbury might blossom this year and Jerry also....but they didn't....Jerry did okay this year but still not the disruptive person we chose him for.