A Pattern is Emerging

[Bengalstripes9]

Is the pattern you’re talking about the one where we lose a couple games and everyone loses their minds? As of right now we are a very similar team to last year—why is this so shocking?

Maybe we all expected the line to be better than it is. I get that. Our line isn’t good. But we really should have seen this coming with all the new faces. Give them some time to gel a bit and settle into the scheme. They could still end up being good.

The coaching is concerning, but that can improve too. If we didn’t make the run we did last year in the playoffs I wouldn’t be so optimistic. But we proved last year we can beat anybody with or without an offensive line. This gives me some hope we can turn things around—but the line and coaching need to improve.

We could certainly flop and miss the playoffs with such a tough schedule. If that happens I would assume some big changes would be in order and if those changes didn’t happen fans would have reason to be upset. Until that happens I’ll continue to have the attitude that anything can happen from here—and that I would venture to guess we see improvement from now to the end of the year.