I had the same thoughts on opening night and throughout the weekend but I was able to settle down a bit and understand it a bit more. There's a number of ways to look at this. For starters, the defense was historically bad in 2019. There's just no other way to get around that. The run defense had to improve. The secondary play had to improve with Ramsey and Bouye now gone.

I am hoping Wash is able to get outside of the box this year and get more creative. Hoping for man-to-man coverage and more blitz packages from the front seven. I think with Jack back outside playing opposite of maybe Williams / Jacobs and the comfort being there in the middle with Schobert allows them the ability to be a lot more aggressive in 2020.

With or without Ngakoue. I think Allen and Chaisson will be a formidable pair of edge rushers. And having the ability to sneak Jack or Williams off the edge is there as well. But they had to get a cover corner to compensate. Hayden and Herndon will be better being knocked down a peg on the depth chart with Henderson involved. And with J.R Reed in the fold? I think they'll have some options. Especially against the run game.

Offensively? I feel like they had some good chemistry going with Conley and Chark last year with Minshew at QB. What hurt was the decision to bench him for three weeks for Foles woeful return into the starting line up. I think with Jay Gruden and Ben McAdoo involved this year that we'll be seeing a lot more balanced games called and a lot more creativity that should have a big committee effort being made between the RB, TE and WR position with Chark being the feature.

Shenault has some "dog" in him. I like what I see out of him YAC wise. I think he's going to be manhandling CB's over the middle and eating up big plays after a 3 - 5 yard little catch. I am going to keep my optimism high. As long as the offensive line can hold up physically we should be manageable.

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