Need Reasons To Get Excited

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by MTK

Some of you guys bite way too hard on the preseason.

Agree with this. They didn't even try to show anything they would pull out in games.

Defense should be better. Offense, not sure how it doesn't get worse, that's how highly I value the deep threat that was Jackson. Overall, back in the same place, 8-8 or maybe squeak back to 9-7.

There's enough promise to hope that things break just our way and we end up in the playoffs.

[calia]

To me it will boil down to whether the improvements in the D (and I think they will be tangible) will outweigh any backslide on O. We would have won a few more games had our D not been just average, and it would have put less pressure on offensive side of the ball. I think we picked up more on D -- Swearinger, Gallette (healthy), J. Allen, Zach Brown (people seem to forget what an improvement he will be), and R. Anderson -- those are 5 solid contributors, and if McGee and McClain improve the D line (or Iannodis with another year under his belt), that's gravy. I also think Cravens to safety will help too (assuming he can get healthy). Breeland has looked pretty sharp this preseason as well. Overall, I think the D will take some significant strides forward (they had only one place to go), and should make up for any setbacks with our offensive production.

Having said that, I am worried about the O line which has not looked great, although it is preseason, and like most folks in this forum (I think), I would like to have kept at least one of DJax or Garcon.