[Large_Ant]

Well, that's certainly one side of the coin. The other side of the coin would be looking at how the offensive line began to gel in the later part of the season once they decided that Rob Sims was their man at left guard. And you pointed out yourself that the "aging" Robbie Tobeck has retired. Did you know he was replaced with a first round pick in Chris Spencer? Four out of the five starting line positions are set. They're set with the same guys that ended the season with stong outings against San Diego and Chicago where Shaun Alexander rushed for over 100 yards against two top tier defenses. I missed that part in your article.

The only aging member of the offensive line at this point is Chris Gray who has to win his job in what has already been declared an open competition.

And I'm confused about Jerramy Stevens. When he was in Seattle, most Rams fans said he was useless. Now that he's gone, we're gonna miss him? Isn't that kind of convenient? Darrell Jackson's departure allows Deion Branch to move back to his natural position and D.J. Hackett is no joke. The Seattle offense has never been based on high power wide outs. We haven't had an amazing wide receiver in Seattle in AT LEAST five years and that certainly hasn't changed. If Joe Jurevicius can come into our system and be successful after having a full training camp, Deion Branch sure as heck can. Seattle's offense has always been based around quick wide outs with good hands. That being the case, we're probably at least as good there as we have been in a long time.

Is our offense going to "scare" anyone? Nope. I don't think it really ever has. Alexander is the only person on our offense than anyone could have ever put in the "scary" category and even then people said they weren't scared. This offense has never been built around being scary. It's built around being efficient.

The Seahawks offense isn't scary. It wasn't scary last year either. So if I'm a Ram fan, the only thing I find scary is the defense that couldn't stop them last year and that hasn't upgraded enough to make anyone believe it will be any different this year.