MonBack said:
Sorry to pee in your wheaties, Warhawk and Digs, but this and $1.50 will get you a can of coke, and that's all.
It's all speculation, in my book, and banking on a mostly rookie team to make a vast improvement over last year is wishful thinking in my book.
That's why Wolf went out and got a good mixture of veterans to make the Packer teams of the 90's better.
I think TT is taking more of a gamble with this approach than anyone on this forum truly wants to admit.
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Yeah, completely unreasonable to think that rookies will improve going into their 2nd year, and 2nd year guys will improve going into their 3rd. We're loony to assume such a thing.
Of course all of this is speculation. The point of this thread questions the criteria these experts and NFL media guys use to determine what teams will do this year.
I don't see them look into teams very deeply and tend to look at teams from the CHANGES or ADDITIONS they have brought in vs. how much improvement (or decline) from within will occur.
If our "0" line DOES improve this year, which I happen to think will happen, and the offense is fairyl productive, the EXPERTS will all find this curious because WHERE are all the big name FA's and draft picks?
I also disagree with how Wolf went about his buisness. He built the team thru the draft and THEN hit up FA to put the team over the top and it didn't happen overnight for him either.
The GAMBLE was taken last year with all the first year guys in there. That's where you pay in. When they are learning on the job. Pay out starts now.
IF YOU BELIEVE in the premise that as your offensive and defensive lines go so does your team I think we will be pretty good this year and yes I think the young guys from last year will, in fact, be much better this time around.