The team will be competitive. The question for me is on defense. We seriously lack quality players on defense. I see us hovering around .500
Buffalo, Cleveland, Indy, Tennessee, with Miami being a fringe team. I think the NFC West will be tough, but think we can potentially hang with Arizona and LA Chargers. I see 6-8 wins if we are average with 9 possible if we get some lucky breaks. 0-16 if we implode lol
Possibly 9 wins? Wow! I don't know how some of y'all can seriously convince yourself of stuff like that, but if that helps with your fandom then so be it.
We'll have a definite downgrade at QB. A WR group that isn't even what we had last year. RB is an upgrade in so much as it couldn't be worse than it was. Ingram is 11 years in and was phased out in Baltimore last year, and if DJ gets the bulk of the work over Lindsay, I don't think the upgrade makes that much difference. TE is probably as good as last year. Could be better if Warring steps up and they actually incorporate TEs into the offense. The OL could be improved just on coaching alone. Problem is, where do they get that coaching with no off-season workouts? And that still leaves you with a play maker issue. Where's the play makers?
On defense? Maybe a change of scheme has some sort of impact, but I don't necessarily see a negligible upgrade in talent. Saying a guy is better than Mercilus isn't really saying much. Where's the pass rush coming from? How's the secondary any better? Mitchell, Brooks and King were as bad as VH3 last season. Who's the play makers on that side?
The ball bounces funny, as it tends to do in football, the injury bug goes easy on them, and they catch some breaks against certain teams, I could give them 6 wins at most. But that's a lot of things that have to go right just to get to 6.
I also think some of y'all are downplaying some of the QBs we'll be facing. Who knows how Lawrence's rookie season goes or how much of an impact he has on winning some games. I just know Herbert won 7 games with the Chargers in his rookie season. 5-7 wins for the Jags would still make them one of the worst to average teams in the league, but that would be a huge improvement for them.
And if the Texans signed Wentz, you'd all be pumping him up pointing to his 3 years prior to last season where he was 25-15, 81 TD, 21 picks, and 98.3 PR, just like Taylor is being pumped up for his 3 years in Buffalo. But since Wentz is on the bad team, let's just look at last season and chalk him up as garbage.
Look, I get wanting your team to do well, compete, steal some W's and not embarrass you as a fan. I don't get burying your head in the sand and ignoring some of the realities going on with them. The last regime stripped this organization of everything, then the rising star QB pulled his shenanigans. The new regime isn't going to fix that overnight with the very little impact on free agency that they had and limited draft capital.
9 wins?
On the cool they might as well forfeit this season.
How ‘bout we start planning a ******* SB parade? Ya feel better now?