Confidence compaired to this time last year?

[BengalChris]

(06-14-2018, 08:02 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: What's your confidence in the team compared to this this time last year? Personally I have a lot more confidence this year. Last year I was worried about Zampese, Alexander, and the OL the most. All of which IMO were greatly upgraded. Lazor is a huge improvement from Zampese, and when Lazor was able to control all aspects of the offense the running game and offense significantly improved. Hell, even the OL improved after that. Alexander is gone and I think we have another huge improvement in Pollack. I think he's the kind of coach that we need right now, and I think that he will be able to make our guys work a lot better than Alexander did. We picked up two key pieces in the OL in Glenn and Price.

I think we're going to have a very solid team this year and other teams are going to have trouble stopping the run and putting points on our defense. I will be surprised if we don't go to the playoffs this year honestly, and I hope to God that we make it over that hump this year.

I am confident the team will be better overall than last year.

I am confident that Marvin will be Marvin, meaning the team will continue to be unprepared for big games and we'll be out coached on most game days. If by some miracle we take a game against Pittsburgh we'll then likely turn around a lose a laugher to Cleveland.

I am confident that Andy Dalton will play up to the talent around him and not much better than that.

In other words, we might make the playoffs, but if we do we'll turn into pumpkins and have no answers for whatever the other team does. And to top it all off Mike Brown will be just happy as a clam about the whole thing.

Hopefully the team will make me wrong and exceed my expectations! Wouldn't that be nice!