Truth in some of this, but other parts of it is revisionist history. It wasn’t just getting nicked up and then getting healthy late. We lost a massive number of players to IR, I believe it was 15, and at that time in the NFL, IR meant you were done for the season. And some of those were massive losses, they weren’t just role players.
Jermichael Finley was right on par with losing Kraft.
Ryan Grant was a massive loss, he had almost 1500 yards for us in 2009.
Tauscher- huge loss.
Nick Barnett - huge loss.
These are the biggest examples, but not the only ones.