I see a lot of comments by folks who apparently did not watch many Cowboys games. For a player playing in what was really his rookie year on the field and playing at about 70% of his physical capacity, Jaylon Smith had an outstanding year. He was second on the team with 99 tackles and his play improved greatly during the second half of the season. he is close to being 100% now and the Cowboys expect even greater things from him this upcoming season. That's why they don't feel linebacker is their most glaring need. The Cowboys play a lot of 2 linebacker sets, SeanLee and Jaylon Smith. Damien Wilson is a capable 3rd linebacker. As for the defense looking loss when Sean Lee was out, that was more on Marinelli the Defensive coach, he seldom played the right combination of players on defense. When pressured, he finally started playing D. Lawrence, M. Collins, D. Irving, T.Crawford, S. Lee, J. Smith , A. Hitchens, C.Awuzie, J. Lewis, B. Jones and X.Woods. That combination made the defense formidable.