You see the usual 8 or 9 games as a failure. People's expectations were changed because this team fooled a lot of people playing half hearted football that could win 10 games versus a schedule padded with third string QB's but wasn't even letting itself get better in the ways needed to win 11 games.
I just care about team growth because as far as I can see this will be the first time we've even attempted to play honest football in years, instead of this run or throw it for 3 yards bullcrap that was happening under Flores because even high school OCs wouldn't work with him by his third year, and he never enabled his offense to make mistakes and get better.