03-31-2017, 08:40 AM
(03-30-2017, 11:01 AM)kevin Wrote: Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong in 2016. I look for this team to bounce back and be more like 2015 than 2016, only we hit the play-offs healthy for a change and not only win that play-off game but with stars Dalton, Green, Eifert, Atkins, Dunlap healthy this team goes Super Bowl.
I agree! As long as we can remain relatively healthy with key players, I don't think it's a stretch that we do well this season. Not sure why so many people think we all of a sudden are a bottom 10 team when 5 out of the last 6 years we constantly were top 10. Yea we lost 2 solid offensive lineman, but c'mon Zeitler is replaceable, Whit will be harder to replace at least for this year, but it seems so many want to give up on Ced after 10 ***** games, it's ridiculous.
I look at it this way. We get several guys back from injuries. Hopefully we have Eifert, Green, and Gio for the whole season. We get to see Billings, Hardison, and WJ3 all come back to the defense which should boost the talent there. Lafell, Boyd, Core, and Erickson all have a season with Dalton and the playbook under their belt. We cut dead weight in Peko and Mauluaga, now hopefully we replace MJ and release Jones(doubtful, but hoping). We have to think that Boling will be a 100% this season and that the work that Ced is putting in will see him improve on the left side. Fisher will he improve the RT? Maybe, I think he will and bringing back Smith was a smart move, plus we have 11 picks so it's not like we can't upgrade the line a little with a new C and some depth at G/T. Last, but not least, we don't play a first place schedule.
