I agree with you.
One issue I see is that we didn't have any physically dominant guys in the front 7 except Lawrence Guy. We used to be a big, physical D, but over the years we've gone more with smaller, quicker players and I think the pendulum needs to swing back the other way. We were too soft up the middle with Byron Cowart unable to anchor and Guy getting double teamed constantly. Yeah, Beau Allen was supposed to be that guy but you can't tell me that there wasn't a run-stuffing fat guy on the waiver wire that couldn't have given us some snaps.
Hightower was a guy that was strong and tough as they come. I wish there was some way we could bring him back for those and a bunch of other reasons, but I won't be holding my breath given the money.