This is a recurring topic, but it doesn't seem like anchors are ever applied in the conversation. By anchor, I mean the result of limited depth. And by depth, you always want your best players playing, are the "not best" players incapable of being role players? So for depth on the roster, at what point going down the ranking do we hit players who shouldn't even be on the team or any Div1 football team? I could play the what-if game, and say what-if we had Joey Bosa, we'd be rocking' it. But we don't have Joey Bosa, there's no reason to play what-if.
One of my friends from high school was our team's RB, class A, and he was good for our high school, but not really great in the big scheme. He tried walking on, but he was cut from the team. I may have not heard the whole story, but I concluded you had to be pretty good even to walk on. Things may have changed from that time my friend tried to walk on.
So, let's put an anchor on here concerning how many more games are we gonna lose this year because of our depth at LB and/or DE. Now, you can take it to the extreme and say we end up having 65 guys getting hurt all playing LB or DE as we cycle through our whole team roster, but that just shows you don't want to answer the question. Or you can try to misdirect, but that just also shows you don't want to answer the question.
I can give you my answer, and my answer is 0. Here also, I don't expect us to win more than 8 games this year. If you're thinking we're gonna win 10 or 11 games this year, then "yes", having to play role players in multiple positions could/would impact results.
