[Paintrain]

The schedule has a boom or bust feel to me. If we don't do something moronic in the draft (Sanchez) then I think our fate will be clear by October. We should be able to be no worse than 5-2 at the bye but how we get there is more key than our record.

If we're scuffling to get by, barely winning games like last year then we're maybe looking at going 1-8 down the stretch and ending up at 6-10. However, if we are clicking and playing at a high level in the 1st half, I can see this team rounding into shape and getting on a roll behind Campbell, Thomas, Hall and (projection) Maualuga and challenging for the division.

There are so many key people with so much on the line (Zorn, Cerrato, Campbell, Rogers, Fletcher) that the team could really have a us against the world mentality and it all comes together or at the first crack of adversity the whole thing could implode.