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What were your expectations for this season?

Mr. Scot

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Waldo Grand Master

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Very low. I was not high on the DM promotion, the DC hire or keeping Evero. Young was always going to be a bust IMO but only having to endure 2 games vs the 16 game of the suck marathon from last year was a nice surprise. Looks like we are easily picking top 5 again so that's dead on there. The Dalton bump was fun but also predictably short lived. The draft class is looking as predicted unfortunately. It's just not a good team and that includes what these guys chose to do this offseason even with the few positives. 

I keep hoping to see more improvement. I haven't see enough yet. 5 weeks down and 12 to go. Get going or I would cheer for a house cleaning. No Caldwell or Morgan or any of these guys? Sounds great even if Tepper fugs it all up again. I was hoping more from Tillis but maybe he is biding his time waiting for the rest to fail to step up and be Tepper's new in house guy?

It was 3 to 5 wins for me but I think 3 would be hard to hit if they don't change up what they brought last game. Injuries stink but adapting is what the NFL requires in the best of times. Get to it or fug off IMO

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Progress, in something. Anything.

I had no expectations of improvement in Young. He was who we thought he was.

I knew Luvu was the glue on the entire defense. Brown jammed it up, Luvu was the pass rush and kept the run honest. We added people I’ve never heard of except Clowney. I knew it would be bad, didn’t think it’d be like this. Preseason was fools gold that I fell for badly. Evero, could call up some kind of stunt. Like, what do you have to lose at this point? 

I knew Thielen, Andy and Chuba would be our mainstay. I wasn’t sure about the o line help. Didn’t really pay much attention honestly. I hadn’t even heard of Johnson, but I don’t pay attention to the rest of the NFL like I used to. 
 

I was very skeptical of Canales and Dan. Thought like the previous, they sold their man cards to T. This is a strong maybe, I’d say. 

 

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17 minutes ago, Waldo said:

Very low. I was not high on the DM promotion.

I actually felt better about Morgan than Canales. I didn’t like the fact that Morgan was essentially a part of Fitterers group, but I was willing to give him a chance because of his past here. Would still be willing to give him another season or two to clean this mess up.

The DC hire to me was strange, very skeptical at first because he came out of nowhere and reminded me of the Nathaniel Hackett hire. I do feel somewhat better about DC now.

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If you expected a lot of wins this season you were not paying attention. They have a first time GM and a first time HC who just came from being a first time OC. Neither of which I would call in hot demand by any stretch of the word. Starting out with the worst team in the league by every measure you can think of. All of which are the puppets of David Tepper. You must be a serious homer.

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20 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I actually felt better about Morgan than Canales. I didn’t like the fact that Morgan was essentially a part of Fitterers group, but I was willing to give him a chance because of his past here. Would still be willing to give him another season or two to clean this mess up.

The DC hire to me was strange, very skeptical at first because he came out of nowhere and reminded me of the Nathaniel Hackett hire. I do feel somewhat better about DC now.

I was not. Morgan's work here last year had me hoping he was not going to be staying either. DC is Morgan's friend so when Morgan was hired I knew we were fugged. The entire Seattle connections was always a dead end IMO that started with Friterer. I was hoping for Peters and more KC connections. 

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2-15

I tried to tell many huddlers, but they were drunk on hopuim. Its not my style to bust-up fellow fans hoping for a 7-10 win season. I too want to hope my favorite team can be average again......

I even thought they had less talent than 2023, many poo'd on that as well. 

Unless evero can surprise some QB and get some TOs, even with dalton at QB getting that second win will be one tough mountain.

People talk about the points and non-pass rush, but the defense is also lacking TOs. TO win games...

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54 minutes ago, Basbear said:

2-15

I tried to tell many huddlers, but they were drunk on hopuim. Its not my style to bust-up fellow fans hoping for a 7-10 win season. I too want to hope my favorite team can be average again......

I even thought they had less talent than 2023, many poo'd on that as well. 

Unless evero can surprise some QB and get some TOs, even with dalton at QB getting that second win will be one tough mountain.

People talk about the points and non-pass rush, but the defense is also lacking TOs. TO win games...

I said with a couple of injuries this defense would horrifically bad

I said Dave canalas is as green as it gets

I said a top 15 offense and 6 wins would be a success

I said Dan Morgan will be a poo GM

Welp here we are are eyeballing 4 wins. Ive seen this movie before and I know how it ends.

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