Mongo, I think you are making a lot of assumptions that we just don't know about yet. how would you have answered this question a year ago at this time? Most were saying we were better if only because we replaced Cassel with Smith and replaced Romeo with Andy. We HAD to be better. We went 2-14 the year before. But did you see us winning 11 games?
Last years schedule was supposed to be tough, too. The NFC East were all supposed to be good. Houston was a super bowl candidate. We "never win" in Florida (Jacksonville). Buffalo "has got our number." People had us losing to the Titans and even the Browns were supposed to be much improved. Guess what? We won all 8 of those games. In fact, outside of Denver and San Diego, the Chiefs went 11-1! Who would have predicted THAT? Oh, and our starters didn't even play in one of the San Diego games.
I pulled up the prediction thread from last year. keep in mind that this was AFTER the draft and we had already played all of our preseason games. Here are some quotes:
"The most i could see is 10 wins, the least i could see is 5."
"7-9"
"as low as 6-10."
"Worst case 6 wins."
"4 wins."
"I predict a 8 and 8. However, I see us getting better in the second half of the season."
"Worst case we go 5-11."
I picked us to go 11-5, BTW.
You can never tell how the season is going to go, especially this early when we don't know how our team or the teams we play will look at the beginning of the season. We will be adding a lot of players between now and training camp. And we will be cutting a lot of players after the preseason.
I don't know how the off season will play out, and so far neither do you. Let's see what happens between now and September and then see where we stand.
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