I think, without Oliver, you see a dip in the overall performance of the defense. Ford, Settle, and Phillips do not demand double teams, which will have a negative impact on the DEs on passing downs and LBers on rushing downs. If the DEs are being hemmed up, that creates problems with our secondary which isn’t all that athletic.
That is the trouble I was talking about, there is a path that the Empire could take advantage of our DT depth.
Not saying we lose, we just won’t have the defensive performance we are all expecting potentially.