Re: Setting Expectations
overall i guess i hate this off season too but..
we had a good defense and bad offense and we gave up allittle on d to get a better offense. I just wondered in a report it said that coles and gardner talked together about how much they hated the offense. i mean how can a team be good when both of the WR don't want to be there and are upset. I then had to agree for the coles trade. We got Moss in return and he may prove to be better and we got patten. HERE IS a little info... out of all the recievers that got 40 or more passes i looked at the yards per catch and Ashley lelie was 1 then MOSS THEN PATTEN! that isn't bad. They got little amount of catches because moss was on a run team that ran well over 50 % i think they ran like 52- something and through like 43- something but i am not sure. Patten caught more than deion branch and was number two on the team in catches. Also we got rabach which will help our offensive line, on paper we have one of the better o-lines but raymer was a weak link and now that is fixed.
WE FIXED OUR OFFENSE FOR THE BETTER
DEFENSIVLY
Yes we lost one of the best in both smoot and pierce at thier respectable positions but we must remember niether of these two were at that position before the season started. We don't need BIG names to be good on D it seems that they all step up anyways, we won that last game against the vikes when they were trying w/o smoot and springs came out many times and we still did well. I am not saying that we don't need smoot but we can live w/o him and we shouldn't plummet in the defensive rankings nor should the vikes get amazing w/ him. Pierce i truely wanted more than smoot because i saw that we had no one to back him up but if barrow gets better he will dominant and possibly better than pierce but if not and that is the way it seems we may get derrick in the draft. Today someone told me that he had heard that Gardner may go to the Browns and we would switch our first round picks in return that would make us 3 and able to do what ever the hell we want exept get a new QB. if not we will get somin in return for gardner as espn said that he may be the hottest WR in the FA
Bottom line our D got worse but i think we will manage but our offense got better and that is what we need, so don't give up our number 1 problem on our team was the passing game being deep, reports earlier in the year said that it seems that he was scared that ramsey wasn't getting enough time in the pocket and that was true, we will get better on o-line and our passing game will improve because of that and b/c of our new speedy wr. Our running game should also improve
have faith playoffs for sure!!
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