We are on track to win 4-5 games, and have been competitive in every loss. All 1 score losses. A lot of folks here, including myself, saw this as reasonable based on the last 4 years. However, they messed up the expectations by blowing out 2 teams in a row, including a Chargers team that no one gave them much of a chance against. So expectations were probably unrealistically reset.

Caldrac hit on something early on that I believe is significant. We have drafted Favre 2.0, and we need to temper our expectations based on that. The original model was a reckless gunslinger who didn't seem to think a lot about where he was throwing it early on, and just figured he could get any ball into any coverage, anytime. He had to eventually be reeled in by various head coaches so that he could achieve his best level of success. Lawrence, for good or bad, has some of this ingrained in him, and up to becoming a pro, has for the most part gotten away with it. How much of these bad tendencies can coached out of him while still retaining the good will go a long way to determining if he's going to be what most people expected him to be.

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