Eh, I think too many people are reading doom/gloom into this. Minshew wasn't terrible last year. Did he have bad games? Yeah, but he was also a 6th rounder who go almost NO reps with the ones until he was thrust into the starting role. As much as people bag on Cann, he is gonna be what he is going to be. We cant expect to have world beater All-Pros at every position. PFF (not the best reference, but I digress) has him down for 3 sacks and 2 penalties in 2019. He seems like the type of guy who as long as you don't hear his name called, you kind of forget about him. That's not a BAD thing for an OL. Taylor really came on in the last few weeks on the season. He looked STOUT AS HECK against the Raiders. Per SI.com, "On the season, Taylor surrendered eight sacks, according to Pro Football Focus - two in the final 10 games of the season." He had a baptism by fire against some pretty good pass rushers to start his career and got better as the season went on. Linder is pretty solid at Center. He had an off year last year, but overall body of work is pretty stout. Norwell has struggled but I believe the majority of his struggles have been due to sliding over picking up the slack for the garbage we had at LT in 2018 and Cam coming back from a torn ACL last year. I firmly believe that Year 2 of recovery for Cam, Norwell focusing on his own assignments, Linder, Cann/Richardson, and Taylor will be MARKEDLY better in 2020 than they were in 2019. That will do loads for Minshew being a better QB. If we don't trade Fournette, he's a solid back. Chark/Shenault/Conley/Westbrook/Johnson (GOOD RZ target) is a pretty good crop of receivers. The TE position will be better this year than last. Eifert has a questionable history, but he did play 16 games for the first time in his career last year. Oliver should be full strength and show good things. O'Shaughnessy will brought back slowly from his ACL tear. Looking at the team last year, short of that five game stretch where they flat out could NOT stop the run, they were competitive in 3 of the losses (lost by a TD).

First Houston: If we kick the XP and go to overtime, I think we win that game.
Carolina: Stop CMC, even ONCE...we win that game.
NO: we were playing a back up, but Gardner couldn't get out of his own way and we lose by a TD.

Will this team compete for the playoffs next year? I don't think so. Will this team be the worst team in the league and have a top 5 draft pick next year? Once again, I don't think so. Then again, i've been so abused by the team over the past 25 years...maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome...

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