rayzor

i still don't know what this thread is about.

something about the wording of the thread title gave me a migraine.

the fact is there is nothing to talk about at this point other than speculations.

good job with the write up, btw!

i think next year we start adding more to the OL in the draft.

he used to have nothing good to say about them. put him on the payroll...problem solved.

important perspective to have. as easy as the schedule is, it could take 2-3 games for it to start clicking for the young and new ones.

i think i banned him again like a week or two ago. one of hundreds of his accounts.

i want to understand.

not buying any of that.

we were really competitive after Bryce came back. we were a legit threat to the best teams in the league. if you don't believe it, you didn't watch them play against the eagles, chiefs, bucs (at home), and the cardinals (who we kept out of the playoffs). the chiefs left here depressed after winning and the eagles were upset after we left there. both teams were beat up and acted almost like they lost, which they were just lucky they didn't. i think we've got it sorted out now. the run defense is going to be much better. passing defense will be improved as well. i mean the last several games we were really getting after the QB and causing them headaches. neither of the two QBs in the superbowl could get much done against us because we didn't give them any time. the first 7 games we had 7 sacks. the remainder of the season we had 25 sacks. we went from 1 sack per game to 2.5 sacks per game and i think we do better this year. the run defense will see the biggest boost, though. Getting DB back, and adding Bobbie Brown, Wharton, and Cam Jackson to the front will be a huge thing. and then adding Moehrig and Ransom at safety will be huge for us in controlling the run game as well. both sides of the ball we should see a significant uptick in performance, especially defense. things are simply just lining up right. we lost close games that this coming year we will win. they got it figured out and they brought in the personnel we need to get it done.

he pretty much talks about all that. worth watching. there is a balancing game they have to play and he talks about the decision making process and the issues they run into figuring it all out. they have a lot of mouths to feed is what he says. everyone wants their prime time high profile games to broadcast.

really good interview that gives some insight into their decision making process in making up the schedules and the issues they run into with so many people broadcasting games now. also some interesting discussion on what they have going on and where they might be heading in the international games. vikings have 2 of them, btw. we might be seeing more of that.

wow i absolutely LOVED watching that. will watch again...and again...and again.

i like it.

it's not ideal, unless you are going to be heading into the playoffs.

it will be that first scenario

room for growth? sure. but you were just a weeeeeeee bit exaggerating. but if you were serious about all that? "Okay bud"

improved record...yeah sure. i mean we don't have a difficult schedule as it is especially for the first half. if we are playing like we did at the end and can actually improve on that (very little reason to believe that won't happen) then we could easily find ourselves hitting the mid point with 4-5 wins. if things are gelling and we've got in a groove we could see that bump up to 8 or 9 wins be seasons end. i think this is completely reasonable. we just don't need to see a regression like we did with BY the beginning of last year.

i think you might be overestimating the strength of the rest of the NFCS. if we win the division or come close it's going to have as much to do with the rest of the division sucking as it is with our getting better (which we will be).

i looked at this question and thought QB was going to be too much of a cop out answer. lazy. for me, Myles Garrett. that's the guy that would give us the biggest boost. maybe Micah Parsons. Both guys terrorize OLs and QBs. They both come with a a contagious attitude and presence that the others would feed off of. I would also consider an OLB like TJ Watt. but i would rather have Kuechly back in prime form over anyone else.