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Shoulda, woulda, coulda
This season, 2018, should have been the ‘setup’ for a 2019 payoff. This should have been the season where Alex Smith got comfortable, where the young group of defensive backs learned to play together, where Derrius Guice established himself, where the Defensive Line became a coherent unit.