1. Jay fiedler is gone, Feely or Frerotte are better. Are you sure?? i dont think so.
2. We got rid of Wanstedt and got Nick saban who seems to be an amazing coach. Nick has yet to coach a regular season game, but hes better than Wanny???? why? after all those games Wanny won, now he sucks??
3. We got hudson houck who turned a s**t charger o-line into a very good one. your line will still have problems. whos you center?? or OGs?? ....exactly.
4. There were no huge distrations this year....ricky. In fact, he came back thereby leading me to #5. the term "distraction" is overused and not why the fins lost last season.
5. We by far have the BEST running back core in the entire league. we have 2 top five draft pick running backs. plus lamar gordon and travis minor for a change of pace. where a player was drafted, does not relate to how they will play. will ricky be the 2002 ricky, or will he be the 2003 ricky? how will brown perform as a rookie?
6. a new and improved d-line. with the additions of kevin carter, vonnie holliday, and "Tracktor" Traylor, and hopefully corey simon. new and improved??? more like a group of overrated, aging players braught into fill a desperate need. but Simon would SERIOUSLY help. i hope you dont get him.
7. We had one of the steals of the draft in channing crowder who will improve our lb core along with donnie spragan. Crowder wont start, and will have limited action. so he will have little impact on the game, this season.
8. we got rid of sammy knight, i know this may seem bad but i couldn't stand when he would always get burnt by the receivers, which leads me to maybe the only worsened part of our team from last year.......... Sammy was better than the guy you have now. him leaving hurt the team, it did not help.
9. The Secondary. The only real loss was surtain, but that is a huge loss. what about the safeties? both FAs you braught in are worse than the players they are replacing. your #2 CB last season is now the #1, and i dont think he can do the job the way yall need him to do it. your #3 cb last season will be the #2cb. and he is not good enough to be the #2. your secondary will be surprisingly (to you) bad this season. the fins are NOT used to that.
10. I think that olindo is also back from his break that he took last year.
11. We only got blown out in 1 game...that was the jets; who are much worse this year. The pats are worse and the bills have losman. you only got blown out once, but you were not "IN" may games. it might have been within 1 or 2 scores, but you never had any momentum, and I never had the feeling that the fins could really come back from 10 points back, to win the game. every time the fins did score to bring it close, the other team just went down and scored again. the Pats are the Pats. you got VERY lucky last season. i dont expect that to happen again. the jets arnt much worse this year. if their QB stays healthy, they will have atleast a 10 win season. the bills did not get worse. we had addition by subtraction. IMO, losman is better than Bledsoe, McGahee is better than Henry. Jennings was a overrated OT, who was always injured. and we improved at the Left OG spot. the loss of Pat Williams will hurt, but he only played 49% of the defensive snaps. we SHOULD be able to keep his loss from killing our run defense. and we have called about simon also :D .
12. if we had better coaching and feeley had developed one extra year and played the entire season; even with the crap ol and the worst rb tandem in the nfl we would have won 8 games last year. Think back to all the game we could have won on feeleys ints. for tds and the stupid stuff that happened.
I think we will be 10-6 this year or maybe 9-7 but atleast it will be better than last year.
What do you guys think ,after reading that, our record will be?
