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The Doctor is in ... Zod's season prognosis...


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This is a little odd, I haven't been to camp, but I would have thought Rivera would have made camp a little more serious, since he is a "no nonsense" kind of guy.

I am just wanting to see this team get better, and see Cam progress through the season.

As of now, I am going to say 7-9

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With all due deference to our esteemed Emperor Zod, I hope you are wrong. Perhaps blind homerism is my chief character flaw, but I have to believe we can do better than that. I say six, possibly seven wins. Lax camp or not, a hugely improved O-line, a pounding set of RBs, and a linebacking corps that acts like wolves just introduced to red meat for the first time lead me to believe they have six or seven wins in them.

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Will be checking out camp in the next few days and will be seeing if it stays the same. Different coaches do different things. Fox already ran a pretty serious camp with lots of physicality but based on the 3 winning seasons in 9 years it is hard to say that is more effective than one that is more laid back.

I suspect that the new rules are affecting camp and they all are less physical and more about board work and walk throughs. It will also be interesting to see if things change in the event we play poorly in preseason.

In any event I think that 5-11 is a safe bet at this point. Hard to expect more with the youth at such critical positions and short time to get prepared.

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