NorthCoastBias
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Gonna go with 12-4.
No 9-7 team has ever won a Super Bowl, have they?12-7
11-5, with the last game a loss as everyone is sitting. Division title.
Only two teams are true rivals: NE and IND. KC regresses as its defense sucks. LAC are good, but their offense isn't high-powered enough.
Advances to the AFC title game against New England. Anything can happen that game. I cannot see past it.
9-7
Borderline of both a division title and a wild card this year. I'll say they just sneak in for the last wildcard and lose in the 1st round.
I guess I still have the Cleveland pessimist in me. And I don't even think that's all that pessimistic. I'm stoked for the season and can't wait for them to reach and surpass my expectations. But the o-line, a rookie head coach and my 34 years on the earth as a Browns fan won't let me predict higher yet.
I think there's something to be said about WHO we beat last year.We do have a young team, but it's not like they're all new to pro football or to this team. And they're not remotely the same group of guys who went 1-31.
This was an average team last year with Baker at QB, and an above-average team after Hue was fired. The way I see it, predictions of 8-8/9-7 amount to an expectation of no improvement at all.
Maybe that will turn out to be the case. I just think that we need to keep in mind that our baseline for improvement is from being .500, not from being 1-31.
So...how much will the added year of experience for Baker, etc., a second year in this offensive system, and the new talent we've added, mean to a team that went .500 last year?