Most of us hope we win it all every season but we need to take pause and evaluate with honesty what we have in total.
I voted a 6 because of the following reasons:
1) Though I like Wade Phillips on a personal level, I still do not think that he is a leader of men which is necessary to go to the next level. I truly hope that I am wrong but for me the jury is out on him in this regard.
2) Special teams has been emphasized with every move but do we yet have a substantive improvement especially considering the resources we devoted to this facet in the draft?
3) We are way too thin with regard to depth in many places and unfortunately some of our young guys are out for the year or injured.
I realize that most the rookies would simply be utilized on special teams but I do think they were looking for game contributions from our LB's in terms of pass rush.
Though we still have time to add some vets, back-up NT, LB, S scare the heck out of me. I can live with the new OL Duke addition and Free seems to be getting some praise as of late.
4) We need to eliminate stupid penalties, mental errors and dumb turn overs that simply cost us games and which has been something that has defined our Dallas Cowboys teams of late.
I hope for the best but realize this may be too much to overcome especially if past trends continue and injuries deplete our roster in terms of starters.
That being said, I do feel good about our offense thus far and I do believe the defense will be much more aggressive once game planning and exotic packages are employed.