Colorado Should Focus Big Money On Defense, Not Offense

As bad as the offense was this year, they still managed to score 44 goals, which should be enough for a team with a solid defense to get by. That number ties the highest number of goals ever scored by a Gary Smith team, but his teams always came out with positive goal differentials because of a solid defense.

It's the old saying: "Offense wins games, but defense wins championships." Wanting a team that scores 50+ goals a season is a perfectly fine thing to want, but if the team is going to give up 50+ defensively as well, they're going to turn into cardiac kids like the Earthquakes were this season. (An Earthquakes team, by the way, who failed in the MLS playoffs because they couldn't find that attacking magic for one game while giving up three goals.)

The team will have a bit more money available with Caleb Folan's salary off of the books this year and Conor Casey either getting a salary cut or just being removed all together. That means that there will be room for three or four signings, one of them possibly even a DP. If that DP goes to a forward, I won't complain — having a consistent goal-scorer is something we've lacked since 2010 and would make it much easier to predict who will score every week.

That being said, if I had to pick, I would be much happier seeing a $500,000 center back in that back line keeping the goals out than someone up front trying to bang them in.