WINS AND LOSSES

[scratched]

With all the additions on the staff and the roster, our playoff hopes, still come down to McCaffrey staying healthy. Without McCaffrey as an option, I can't see us making a run this season. If CMC can stay healthy, we are a 9 or 10-win team. What does everyone else think?

[top dawg]

Our schedule is a monster. I just can't see us getting to .500, even with CMC. He's a difference maker in the league when playing. He may be the premier difference maker outside of franchise QBs. But it still takes a team that's well-coached to win the games that you're supposed to, much less the games that you're not. If our new coaching additions can actually put players into a position to succeed, develop good game plans, and dynamically adapt to the situations at hand, then maybe we'll get to 10 games. The players, especially the QB1 will likely have to be on point with their execution as well.

Basically, a lot of things will have to go right, in addition to CMC staying healthy, for us to get to nine or 10 wins.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

9-8

[PootieNunu]

7-10 at best until one of our QBs proves he deserves to play with the big boys. 

[SazmoRanger]

I just don’t see us winning too many games with or without Baker/CMC. We’ve had games the last few years we should’ve easily won and yet find ways to lose, convincingly. Also, we lost our last 7 games last year and it wasn’t even close. Not even competitive. 

Browns - Toss up

Giants - Toss up

Saints - Toss up

Cardinal - Loss

49ers - Loss

Rams - Loss 

Bucs - Loss

Falcons - Toss Up

Bengals - Loss

Falcons - Toss Up

Ravens - Loss

Broncos - Loss

Seahawks - Win

Steelers - Loss

Lions - Toss Up

Bucs - Loss

Saints - Toss up

 

Going through the schedule I have 8 games that I can see us having a realistic chance at winning. I feel we can beat the Falcons, Saints, Seahawks, Giants, and Browns. 
 

I’d say at BEST we split with the Saints. We’re 2-9 against them in our last 11 meetings. That’s down to 7 wins. 
 

We’re also 3-8 against the Falcons in the past 11 meetings, so I’d say we’d split with them too. That’s down to 6 wins. 
 

That leaves the Giants and Browns. Browns I’d lean to a loss as it’s the first game of the season and Giants are a true wild card. Should be a W, but they beat us by 22 points last year. So let’s say we split those games as one W and one L. That brings us to 5 wins. 
 

Realistically, we’re looking at a 5-7 win season. I’m sure out offense will be improved, but our defense will probably take a step back. Fun times. 
 

 

 

 

[poundaway]

Vegas had us at 7.5 wins last year and we ended with 5.
Vegas has us at 6.5 this year with a harder schedule.

Its a wide range, we could be anywhere from 4-10 wins.

I think the McAdoo/Baker/DJ/CMC combo has a very high ceiling.  Our D is not as bad as the jaded Huddle states.

If Baker is still injured or he's off and CMC goes down, and the OL gets ravaged with injuries, and Horn, Donte and Shaq miss significant playing time, we're going to suck again. 

[Waldo]

5 wins. As long as Rhule is the coach I really don't expect more and the changes are negated by the schedule. Still a 5 win team this year. 

[CRA]

5-7 wins

[BlueBuck24]

This team with last year’s schedule? You have me buying in to potential playoff talk and 9 wins.

But this year’s schedule is very difficult. It would genuinely not be surprising if we started off 0-7 going into Atlanta. 

[Catsfan69]

7 games is the high water mark

[kungfoodude]

4-8 wins post Mayfield, IMO.

I'd put 6 wins as my personal guess.

Edited July 13, 2022 by kungfoodude

[Khyber53]

Ask me after that first preseason game against the Commandoskins.

There's a lot of Hey!s with this team right now and that's good, but there are a lot of Hmmmm?s as well, and those could be bad.

 

[ForJimmy]

Browns - If no Watson then we should win

Giants - Winnable

Saints - Winnable (No Peyton)

Cardinal - Winnable

49ers - Winnable (Lance's first year starting)

Rams - Loss 

Bucs - Loss

Falcons - Winnable

Bengals - Loss

Falcons - Winnable

Ravens - Loss

Broncos - Loss

Seahawks - Winnable

Steelers - Winnable

Lions - Winnable

Bucs - Loss

Saints - Winnable

I show 11 "winnable games" and 6 games we should lose.  We obviously won't win all 11 winnable games and might upset 1 or 2 of those 6 we should lose.  If all goes well we win more than we lose in the winnable games and maybe get an upset or 2.  I should see us being 8-9 or 9-8 if Mayfield clicks in McAdoo's offense

[CanadianCat]

We have a monster schedule. We might have a good team a competitive team and still really struggle.