true2form

Agreed. Defense was fine last week. Not their fault the offense put them in bad spots and kept them on the field to long. This team has done a 180 in the last 2 years. It used to be crossing your fingers that the defense could just come up with a stop or two each game so we could win 34-30. Now we need the offense to come up with a few scores to win 21-20.

This is what I hope happens tbh. If this happens, at least we can hang our hats on AP having them prepared and losing to a better team. If they go cross country and get embarrassed from the get go, I'll have flashbacks to the winless streaks of the recent past.

Are you keeping them if we go 3-13?

I was surprised early in the game. Looked like we had every chance to win this game. If we cant beat bad teams like this, we may not even win the 6 games I thought. Honestly, ill be ok if we suck it up this year for a top pick.

Yeah, I have no problem with the player(Bowers), but the pick was out of left field. We had a solid TE group already and you'd think we would've addressed a position with more need. Same could be said for the year before with Wilson too. Hopefully Bowers turns out to be worth it. We really need to hit on some draft picks, even if they're "luxury" picks.

I'd throw Rogue One in there. Probably the best Star Wars movie since Jedi.

Because some people just can't be realistic, no matter what.

This. We will all be in agreement by midseason that our QB is not on the roster.

I guess I expect them to be no worse than last year, which was a competent defense that isn't a liability anymore. Hopeful that an addition like Wilkins makes them even better. They have to take the next step before I'm thinking top 10 or higher. I don't see them as a unit that will dominate week in and week out. They will have good games and not so good, but the consistency is what I'm looking for.

It's not that big of a deal any more. It's like anything else that we can play revisionist history with. If we had drafted megatron instead of JR for example. So many "what if?" moments.

Won't argue with that. Lots of questionable decisions over 20+ years now.

He clearly has had fumble issues. That chart is a bit misleading though. Most of those guys have played a lot less games, either because they're younger, out of the league, or missed seasons. Turnovers per game would be a completely different chart.

5 to 9 wins depending on how the stars align, so 7-10 sounds about right.

That is kind of the way it went. I think injuries slowed him a little last year.

I could see him playing by mid-season. His vision, read & react, is some of the best I've ever seen. Makes up for his lack of "speed".