I actually prefer to be a glass is half full kinda guy, with that said here is why...
1) Lets go back to last year, before the by week we went 2-5 and avg 14.2 points per game. We made the following changes on the line, we moved Peters from RT to LT, moved Gandt from LT to LG and inserted a 7th round rooking at RT.
This change improved our offense production to the tune of 22.2 points per game and a record of 5-4. Of those 4 loses, 3 were by a total of 5 points!
Fast forward to 2007, Gandy is now a Cardinal and Dockery has been signed to replace him, my take is we improved.
Walker has been signed to replace Pennington at RT while I am not completely sold I trust the coaches to evaluate and I "assume" he is an upgrade.
Last but not least and maybe the biggest move was trading McGahee.. OBD went into the draft (and IMO) was going to draft Lynch at 12 no matter what! Why you may ask? He is the perfect fit for this offense, fast enough to get to the edge, big enough to run between the tackles and a pass receiving threat. Then draftning Wright in round 4 landed our thumper!
And while the defense on it's own may take a step back I believe with the improved offense running the ball and pass protection, then this defense can be good enough to win more than we lose and maybe just maybe we land a spot in the playoffs.
Again last years offense produced 22.2 PPG over the last 9 games. I think it will be capable of producing more than that year 2 with the improvements!!!
1) Lets go back to last year, before the by week we went 2-5 and avg 14.2 points per game. We made the following changes on the line, we moved Peters from RT to LT, moved Gandt from LT to LG and inserted a 7th round rooking at RT.
This change improved our offense production to the tune of 22.2 points per game and a record of 5-4. Of those 4 loses, 3 were by a total of 5 points!
Fast forward to 2007, Gandy is now a Cardinal and Dockery has been signed to replace him, my take is we improved.
Walker has been signed to replace Pennington at RT while I am not completely sold I trust the coaches to evaluate and I "assume" he is an upgrade.
Last but not least and maybe the biggest move was trading McGahee.. OBD went into the draft (and IMO) was going to draft Lynch at 12 no matter what! Why you may ask? He is the perfect fit for this offense, fast enough to get to the edge, big enough to run between the tackles and a pass receiving threat. Then draftning Wright in round 4 landed our thumper!
And while the defense on it's own may take a step back I believe with the improved offense running the ball and pass protection, then this defense can be good enough to win more than we lose and maybe just maybe we land a spot in the playoffs.
Again last years offense produced 22.2 PPG over the last 9 games. I think it will be capable of producing more than that year 2 with the improvements!!!
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