How so, we were slightly below average last year. I like your optimism and it’s a serious question, I think we will definitely be better but best in the game?!
Having Fred back and Cobb won’t change it that much. I guess you could argue Moore will be our savior, he certainly has to be an upgrade from Linehan but I doubt enough to make that much of a difference.
Let's dissect your comments.
The slightly below average last year comment is based on what? The first half where the team had no passing game? Or the second half where the team seem to gel and play better? Or a mixture of both.
I have said this to you, and anyone who will, listen here, that history does not dictate future results necessarily. So your foundation on diminishing any type of quantum leap has the requisite that last year was at one level and that is impossible to move up to the top level because the additions are not significant enough.. Now I can just be a rah rah guy and discount this. Essentially stating I know You are but what am I.
But this is the deal.
Fredbeard will make a difference in both his ability to play his position and his ability to call the line play. Now marry that with a beefed up Connor Williams and the depth the team has on the line and that group did make a significant step forward. It trickles down in pass protection and opening holes.
Factor in that the WR corp is much better now than the last moment of last season. Gallup will be the most improved player on the offense this year. He will have a marked effect on the edges, and he brings something to between the hash marks in a deeper pattern that the team has not enjoyed recently. All made possible by the line.
A full season of Cooper and the inclusion of Cobb, which I believe was a major step forward to Beas, including some hungry new guys, and this, again, is more tha a modest improvement.
Then factor in opening holes, because the cohesiveness of line play is superior than the last two years, and the passing game should be remarkably better. The run game, and especially play action of a tandem backfield of Zeke and Pollard, could be a nightmare for defenses. Then add Jarwin coming of age and Witten - and I believe he still has some mojo - and that aspect of the offense will thrive.
And whatever shortcomings the defense might have, the offense and time of possession could be killer for the other team.
The individual components are there for this to be a highly successful offense. Moore is an unknown for me. If he is a wunderkind and has an imagination and understanding how to both disguise and be consistently inconsistent with the point of attack, this could very well be the best offense in the league.
And that is me including the bus driver under center.
I don't know. No one does. But I see a whole hosy of parts, that once assembled, have a potential to be surprising.
