This Years Surprise Team

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Originally Posted by SKINSnCANES

THe steelers dont have an oline right now though, and they also dont have a secondary. Troy Palamalu will start this year, he should be good. But they corners are hurting. Terry Cousin might end up being their number one guy... Plus, ive always thought Staley was a bum that was never a good rusher, but could kill any team with a screen pass. Probably with that is the steelers dont run thta type of offense.

My surprise picks this year are goign to be the Jets and the Raiders. The Jets lost pennington last year but came back strong when he returned. And I think Santana Moss is going to light up the scoreboard next year. The Raiders just got a stud olinemen. Gannon is back, Collins is backup. ANd their defense could quite possibly be the scariest defense in the leauge next year. It surprises me that peopel dotn talk about the Raiders D more. Who is going to run on Sapp and Washington?!?!? And with Charles Woodson, Ray Buchanan and Philip Buchanan at CB theya re going to be good in the secondary as well, not to mention Rod Woodson. Plus the two Buchanans are great special team returners.

There ya have it, the Jets and Raiders are my two picks for the AFC, and of course the SKINS!! in the NFC.

I think the reason most people don't talk about the raiders is because while sapp and washington were solid pickups, they are both near the end of their careers and have had a solid decline in their productivity and once again the raiders just got older players instead of much young new talent. Plus the raiders had those guys as their secondary last year and got torched. I do think their offense will be improved (watch out for their 2nd year rb Fargas) but they didn't really do anything to improve their very old wr group. With Gallery and Grove, they have two cornerstones of their oline in place for the next 5-6 years atleast. Plus with KC and Denver in their division I don't see them being able to improve a whole lot this year, but next year with the right adjustments I could see them in the playoffs again.
and the jets with a healthy pettington and a santana moss finally living up to his potential, the jets could suprise some people this year but their d went through a pretty big overall and still has a few question marks.

I also think the browns could do something this year. their not exactly in the strongest division in the nfl and they made some good aquisitions to their offense and some decent pick ups on the defensive side as well. Suggs is going to have a very good year if he Butch Davis does the smart thing and starts him. And Winslow is probably going to have a pretty good year as the safety valve for the offense and a key red zone target.