How good can the offense be?

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(06-27-2015, 04:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Going into the '13 season Eifert, Jones, Sanu, and Bernard had a combined 37 career receptions.  You have to figure thatb if they are all 100% healthy they will be much better than they were in '13.

Also in '13 Zeitler, Boling, and Whitworth all missed games with injury while Kyle Cook was a crippled shell of the player he was before getting injured in '12.  Bodine was not much of an upgrade last year, but I am hoping he improves over his rookie season.

But BY FAR the biggets reason our offense can be better is that we have Hill instead of Green-Ellis.  I was nmot as critical of Green-Ellis as many people here, but he is not in the same class as Hill.

In addition our defense may not be what it was in '13, but it should be much better than it was in '14.

Geno sounds like he will return to his pre-injury form.   Hayes said he felt he looked even better - a tantalizing thought.   Johnson and Sims have returned, and I think that Hardison will contribute in the rotation this year.   I think that our two young corners will upgrade the defensive backfield - though they may start of a little slow and have occasional let downs.  Our LBs will be deeper for the additions of Hawk, Dawson and a more experienced Flowers.  And if Burfict can return to 2013 form by midway through the season we could have a very good defense.

And I think Dalton's commitment to getting his improved mechanics closer to automatic and his head straight pays off - to what degree I don't know.  But he was not the # one problem in Indy.  If we have our guys and the good Andy comes out 70% plus, we'll be a very competitive team against playoff teams.

I'm not Kool-Aid positive, but I'm pretty optimistic at this point.