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Seriously? You going to put 100% of the blame of a 31st D vs. the pass on the lack of a pass rush? I watched QBs torching Titans all season long because they played seven yards off the LoS.
We had issues at CB with Adoree being injured (only started 2 games). Brown also got hurt (our best cover LB) and missed 1/2 the season. We picked up Desmond King to have a decent NB but he only played 9 games. Fulton had a great opportunity but we had no pre-season essentially and he got hurt (played in 6 games). So yea, we had issues at CB, NB and cover LB. So yes, the lack of a pass rush was amplified.
Now if we don't have terrible luck again with injury we have a top 10 talent, 1st round CB, Fulton, coming back, a rookie NB who should be play soon (smart and has experience at the position). You can argue that Jenkins is worse than Butler but he is a vet and serviceable if .... we can have a decent pass rush. Now if Dupree and Autry can't improve the pass rush we will still suffer some on the back end again. So the pass rush, or lack of it, wasn't all the problem but critical to the success of the defense.
Yes Fulton is actually a starting caliber talent at CB (projected to be a 1st round talent) so best case scenario could eventually play opposite of Farley. So no, we don't need to dump more resources into a CB. Even if we don't get Julio another option might be to find another guy like Reynolds to play one of the 3 WR spots. I'd trade Evans for a guy like that since we drafted Rice and have Long.