Itās officially week 1 so letās have your predictions, hopes, and fears listed below.
FOOTBALL IS BACK.
Looking forward to another early play off exit from the Dolphins
Absolutely pumped for the bears season. Got a bet with a colleague that theyāll have a better record than the Seahawks. Easy money.
Think a good bears season is 8-10 wins and being happy with Eberfluss & Williams going forward. Think thereās a chance weāll be very good but canāt see us being any better than 3rd in the division, still should be fun to see Williams and Odunze, just hope people donāt expect Williams to be Mahomes immediately, itāll be standard good rookie ups and downs but hopefully with growth and the highs being very high
I think the defence will be pretty solid, I read that we just need the offence to improve by a few points per game to win a couple more than last year. Either way, it should be fun.
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Think we may well be one of the best 7 teams in the conference, just think the packers and Lions are a bit further ahead in their development and will finish ahead of us. Would back us for the playoffs in the NFC South
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It will be another dumpster fire for the New York Football Giants. GM Joe Schoen recently seen scouting Carson Beck from Georgia on Saturday and then flew over to the Notre Dame/Texas AM game to take a look at Riley Leonard. That will give your starting QB some confidence going in. Even the Madden NFL QB rankings this year have Andy Dalton ahead of Daniel Jones.
Daboll and Schoen canāt wait to move on from him (it was John Mara that really wanted to keep him) so we will see how that plays out. Most think Daboll on the hot seat, but maybe the āI never wanted Daniel Jones in the first placeā mentality keeps him around another year. Daboll will take over play calling duties, so hopefully a lot of Malik Nabers early.
Listen last year the offense could barely score, so hopefully Daboll wrinkles in a lot more deep vertical threats in one on one coverage with Nabers.
Burns on defense a massive 150 million dollar off season signing, but heās looked every bit the part. Second round pick out of Minnesota Tyler Nubin could be one to watch. Semi-optimistic about the defense, but they will be on the field an awful lot.
Saquon will run for approximately 300 yards in two games against the Giants this year. Devin Singletary signed after Barkley departure, serviceable but not a RB1 type, 800 yards seems the cap.
Darren Waller suddenly retires, we take Theo Johnson in the draft when we should have taken Cade Stover.
Daboll is 1-9 against the Eagles and Cowboys in their division, expect more of the same. Commanders Jayden Daniels could give them fits as well.
Thereās absolutely zero expectations of this team being halfway decent, a 7 win season would almost seem like a very good year with the roster talent tbh.
Expecting more like 5-12.
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ā¦and then getting a good laugh at least when the Cowboys lose in the playoffs again
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I think Singletary is an underrated back, reckon heāll surprise people if he can stay on the field. And I guess if the offense can stay on the field.
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The hope is that all goes smoothly with Williams. My fear is that Iām no longer able to stay awake watching the late games.
Oh heās definitely a serviceable back with a little pass catching upside. But wait until he gets a whiff of this o line. Needed a replacement for Barkley, donāt mind it but he wont be a 1000 yard guy. Tyrone Tracy and Eric Gray may cut into his receptions a bit as well, as it seems Daboll will wrinkle them in for screens/change of play situations.
Despite them doing some very Bengals stuff this off-season (lowballing JaāMarr Chase and Tee Higgins, ignoring positions of need to draft a project in the first round, signing the next available veteran free agent and making him TE1) Iām actually feeling fairly hopeful about this season. Joe Burrow has had his first full pre-season since 2021, all the noteworthy starters have stuck around, Joe Mixon has finally been shown the door (he probably hesitated and did a couple of sidesteps before falling through it for a one yard gain) and thereās a lot of absolute crap on their regular season schedule (Panthers, Commanders, Broncos plus the Patriots in the first home opener against a non-divisional opponent I can remember).
No idea what impact losing Brian Callahan will have as I have no idea what he did (Zac Taylor calls and designs the plays so was for all intents and purposes the OC already), main question marks on the field are probably running back (always liked Zack Moss but heās never been a feature back before) and secondary, where Jordan Battle ended up being a capable replacement for Vonn Bell only for the team to resign Bell anyway when the Panthers cut him.
If Burrow stays healthy a win total somewhere in the 10-12 region (no matter how good they are theyāll still drop at least 3 divisional games because they always do) feels attainable, would probably fancy them against anyone but the Chiefs or Ravens in the playoffs too.
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Very much expecting the standard very strong and promising regular season and then doing nothing in post from the Ravens.
Bo Nix looked very good for the Broncos in pre-season, so will probably run into the second coming of Wayne Kychezski in week one and then itās over to Jason Stidham or the ghosts that haunt Zach Wilson to do something a bit more involved than last yearās āFuck it, Courtland Suttonās somewhere down thereā strategy. Javonte Williams needs to be used better. Schedule is relatively soft, so wildcard should be the bare minimum; anything less is a disaster.
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Also, have we decided to just keep a regular season thread as title suggests, over weekly ones? I like the looks of just one regular season thread.
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Have to say this seems optimistic given they have a rookie QB and threadbare receiving corps behind Sutton.
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We werenāt getting many posts on the weekly threads by the middle of last season and they were a pain to start every week so I think we ended up going monthly by December, followed by a post season thread.
Happy to change the thread title if people want to go back to weekly threads though.
NFL threads should beā¦
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Season-long
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There is zero hype surrounding the Vikings following another devastating QB injury and multiple resurgent division rivals threatening to flex their muscles.
It could be an interesting season however, if Sammy Darnold can play the guitar in KOCās quarterback friendly scheme. Both the season and Samās career rest on how he gets on. Success might mean the Vikings make the playoffs and Darnold gets another chance to be a permanent starter elsewhere. Failure means a top 10 draft pick for Minnesota and perennial clipboard carrying duties for S-Darn.
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Itās not too often you get Rozay in town, shooting or not.
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