First, change to a 3-4 to fit the personnel and provide more of a rush. Kelsay and Schobel will do fine outside backed up by Denney; and Adams, Edwards et al will be deep at nose. Plus, we wouldn't need to draft a DL high. At LB, Posey might finally rediscover his Houston form in a 3-4 (he couldn't do much worse), we can keep Crowell on the field between Fletcher and Takeo, who can rush if he comes back ok from the Achilles injury. Sign Clements, no question. There goes the free agent bucks, but no one wants to go back to the yawning CB gap of the SB years. Milloy is fine, but it's time to replace Vincent, at least by mid-season, by a first-day draft pick.
On offense, Gandy would make a decent left guard; he can pull and move. Vallarial and Peters are fine on the right, but we need a left tackle and center from among our first three picks of the draft. I'm not sold on Preston, and Teague... enough mediocrity on the OL. Re-sign Moulds for a bit less money; stupid to let him go. Who knows about Everett, but TE might have to wait yet another year. Need a backup RB. A free agent could be affordable. QB? Man, I would make it SO clear that Kelly Holcomb is NOT the starter and never will be, barring injury. He's the ticket to mediocrity. That was ugly this past year.
Losman. That was a mistake. But what can you do? We'll have to endure a painful year--or maybe two--of QB ratings of 55 before they cut him. One last hideous mistake from TD to haunt us. He's jittery on the field and a twerp in the locker room. Whenever you hear someone praise a qb's component skills (arm strength! Release! Feet! Lovely personality!) you know there's a problem. So do we give away the farm for Leinart or Young? No use even speculating; it can't happen, unless we pull a Ditka and mortgage the team.
Special teams look great. But will someone take Coy Wire behind the barn and shoot him?
Bring in Ted Cotrell to install the 3-4. I have no idea about OC.
In the long view, the Levy hire will pay dividends because, like someone here pointed out, he'll draft players with some grit. We need Darryl Talley, not Mike Williams.
