Hostile said:
I too am cautiously optimistic. I realize the wheels could easily come off of this bus, but they could just as easily get us down the road.
2004 tempered my enthusiasm and brought me back to reality. I thought 2003 was a fluke but I drank the Kool Aid anyway. I somehow took the bait and believed our personnel was better than my dreads had been.
This time I don't have the same fears. I see a motivated Head Coach, new and better personnel, and a schedule that is favorable for a good season.
I'd like to go all optimist, but I can't. There will be bumps in the road. I think we're much more prepared than 2004.
You can go back to last year and I said it all along many times ... as soon as we made the trade for Buffalo my opinion was that we were gearing up to compete for 2005.
I know we compete every year right?
OK.
But what I meant is that we built a foundation by the trade with Buffalo ... we were able to get Julius and pick up an extra 1st in the 2005 draft in which we'll have potentially 4 starters - all rookies, but it was made possible by that trade ... and I do understand that we traded out of the 1st and drafted... bold move actually, but a patient one ...
It didn't seem like we were in any hurry last year. And we weren't. That, if any year, was an evaluation year. But we didn't start Henson, so you're wrong, BnA ...
Hear me out here. The reason Buffalo wanted to trade with us was to get Losman ...
Guess what?
Them getting Losman makes who expendable?
You guessed right, Drew Bledsoe ...
This was a planned and calculated 'attack', and I feel much better about this year too... we put ourselves in a much better position to compete. And I never doubted Parcells here. In fact, I've admired his patience.