Diante Lee

But ultimately, I think I'm okay with that.

And on the whole, you look at some of the additions that they just needed to make defensively,

I don't think that this makes me feel like, oh, this team is going to go out and go 10-7 next year, and they're going to go upset the Broncos once or maybe twice when they play each other next year.

But I do think that maybe we were a year too early on our Raiders optimism.

Last season, we're like, oh man, Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly and Geno Smith, maybe that's going to be the team that makes them frisky.

I think that year one for them, if you're looking at their defensive lineup and what they could get, presumably, from Fernando Mendoza as the number one overall pick in a month and a half, maybe we look up by the time the season gets here and says, this team at least looks like it's competent enough to be able to be competitive in games in a way that they just were not very early last year.

Absolutely.

I mean, you're never going to turn a bad team into a legitimate contender through free agency in one year, right?

That's just not...

how the league is built, the best thing you can do is try to make marginal improvements at one spot at a time, right?

On either side of the ball.

And you made a legitimate improvement to your offensive line, which could have cascading effects, given the fact that, you know, in this offense with Clint Kubiak, there is so much traffic being directed by the offensive line, typically, whether it's in the run game or in pass protection.

And if Linderbaum's as good as he's been advertised and based on what he's been at his peak in Baltimore, you're happy with that.

And then defensively,

I mean, this front seven was just really hard to watch outside of Max Crosby.

Right.

Like it was, it was really tough to watch this team.

You know, and that's not to say that the combination of Quidipe and Malcolm Kuntz is going to be world beating.

And maybe they add to that, right.

With their kind of mid round, uh, draft pick.