I don’t think the team has to win the Super Bowl to be successful. Only one team is champions, and sometimes the ball bounces weird.
I want us to be highly competitive and win the (vast) majority of our games. I want us to make the playoffs and not just squeak in. I want to feel good about the team, like I do now.
If success is only defined by winning the Super Bowl, we will eventually be horribly disappointed. Because no one team wins them all. Any given Sunday…
That said, I LOVE the trajectory this team is on and wouldn’t trade places with any fan of another team.
I’m hoping for 20-0 this coming season. Stomp both the Rams and 49ers twice in the regular season!
In year one of MM’s defense, it started off better than PC’s defense and ended up a top ten defense. In MM’s second year he started off top 5 and finished as the top defense in the NFL. We lost Mafe whose snap count went down at the end of the year. We lost Bryant who is good, but Okada proved to be much better than expected. We lost Woolen who went from CB 2 to CB 3 by year’s end and almost single-handedly cost us the NFC championship. Murphy will be better this year. Mills will be a hell of a lot better this year. D Hall will be significantly better this year. E-man will blow things up this year. Only way this defense disappoints is major injuries to key guys.
MM did a great job picking Kubiak to run the offense he wanted. The Seahawks believed the answer to Kubiak leaving was one of 4 assistant coaches on the Seahawks. Fleury came out of no where to impress the hell out of MM. I’m certain he can do the job and I would not put it past him to improve the offense. The biggest problem is going to be replacing K9 and Charbs. In the past two days I watched the all 22 of the NFC championship game and Super Bowl. Holani impressed me. Not enough to be a K9 replacement, but he can be a RB1B at the least. I like the new guy Wilson. He had a great 2 games in which he started and got 200 yards total in those an over 5 yards a carry. He might be an RB3. Jacardia Wright showed promise before his injury. Kenny Mac shows promise. V Jones shows promise. I’m almost certain there’s an RB in round 2 or 3 that will be a possibility. Our O-line will be better next year, even if the same 5 guys start. We have a ton of rookies from last year who might step up and push for a job at RG. Fleury is a TE coach. Barner could be al pro bowler, and a healthy Arroyo could be a factor in the pass game. Horton if healthy looked like he is capable to make his mark. Darnold and Shaheed will work out their timing and he will look better than he did as a receiver than he did the first half of last season, for the whole of this season if he stays healthy. Darnold will add at least 500 passing yards to his total for last season and 10 TDs to make up for fewer rushing TDs.
Special teams will be as good or better than last year.
Absent a rash of 49er type injuries to top players we are the team most likely to with another ring. Oh, and we don’t practice next to a power plant. ;)
The glass is always full....there can be no half. If you fill a glass halfway with water the other half is air...but it's still full.
I expect regression but not much for all the reasons you pointed out. I like the idea of going after replacements for 'up and coming likely being given big contract' players. I'm looking at JSN and Spoon. If we could draft legit replacements we could get a kings ransom for them and avoid paying huge percentage of the cap to them keeping the team in a better position to be competitive. It's a tall ask. JSN's and Spoons don't grow on trees.
We just won the SB. The target is squarely on our backs. There’s only one direction to go because we’re already at the top. Hopefully we can stay there.
Yes, investment at WR and RB, RG too would be nice and then an edge and a CB. Remarkable actually that offensive roster looks compared to the SB. Losing Walker is going to hurt I fear, so I'd priorize a good RB rather than WR where I think with Shahid and Horton we are good.
I don’t think the team has to win the Super Bowl to be successful. Only one team is champions, and sometimes the ball bounces weird.
I want us to be highly competitive and win the (vast) majority of our games. I want us to make the playoffs and not just squeak in. I want to feel good about the team, like I do now.
If success is only defined by winning the Super Bowl, we will eventually be horribly disappointed. Because no one team wins them all. Any given Sunday…
That said, I LOVE the trajectory this team is on and wouldn’t trade places with any fan of another team.
I’m hoping for 20-0 this coming season. Stomp both the Rams and 49ers twice in the regular season!
In year one of MM’s defense, it started off better than PC’s defense and ended up a top ten defense. In MM’s second year he started off top 5 and finished as the top defense in the NFL. We lost Mafe whose snap count went down at the end of the year. We lost Bryant who is good, but Okada proved to be much better than expected. We lost Woolen who went from CB 2 to CB 3 by year’s end and almost single-handedly cost us the NFC championship. Murphy will be better this year. Mills will be a hell of a lot better this year. D Hall will be significantly better this year. E-man will blow things up this year. Only way this defense disappoints is major injuries to key guys.
MM did a great job picking Kubiak to run the offense he wanted. The Seahawks believed the answer to Kubiak leaving was one of 4 assistant coaches on the Seahawks. Fleury came out of no where to impress the hell out of MM. I’m certain he can do the job and I would not put it past him to improve the offense. The biggest problem is going to be replacing K9 and Charbs. In the past two days I watched the all 22 of the NFC championship game and Super Bowl. Holani impressed me. Not enough to be a K9 replacement, but he can be a RB1B at the least. I like the new guy Wilson. He had a great 2 games in which he started and got 200 yards total in those an over 5 yards a carry. He might be an RB3. Jacardia Wright showed promise before his injury. Kenny Mac shows promise. V Jones shows promise. I’m almost certain there’s an RB in round 2 or 3 that will be a possibility. Our O-line will be better next year, even if the same 5 guys start. We have a ton of rookies from last year who might step up and push for a job at RG. Fleury is a TE coach. Barner could be al pro bowler, and a healthy Arroyo could be a factor in the pass game. Horton if healthy looked like he is capable to make his mark. Darnold and Shaheed will work out their timing and he will look better than he did as a receiver than he did the first half of last season, for the whole of this season if he stays healthy. Darnold will add at least 500 passing yards to his total for last season and 10 TDs to make up for fewer rushing TDs.
Special teams will be as good or better than last year.
Absent a rash of 49er type injuries to top players we are the team most likely to with another ring. Oh, and we don’t practice next to a power plant. ;)
The glass is always full....there can be no half. If you fill a glass halfway with water the other half is air...but it's still full.
I expect regression but not much for all the reasons you pointed out. I like the idea of going after replacements for 'up and coming likely being given big contract' players. I'm looking at JSN and Spoon. If we could draft legit replacements we could get a kings ransom for them and avoid paying huge percentage of the cap to them keeping the team in a better position to be competitive. It's a tall ask. JSN's and Spoons don't grow on trees.
We just won the SB. The target is squarely on our backs. There’s only one direction to go because we’re already at the top. Hopefully we can stay there.
Yes, investment at WR and RB, RG too would be nice and then an edge and a CB. Remarkable actually that offensive roster looks compared to the SB. Losing Walker is going to hurt I fear, so I'd priorize a good RB rather than WR where I think with Shahid and Horton we are good.