Guys, I posted a bunch of stats in this string previously so I'll try not to repeat that. When the season began some had over the top expectations. (14-3, 12-5 etc) A few of us knew the O-Line was a defect. That defect was made worse by the suspension of Cam and practicing with the Loins. Ye a before that practice we were in good health. We came back all beat up. I believe Scherff's ankle issue began after that. (the reason their were fights on Wednesday/Thursday) Next the D-line took hits, Smoot was coming off injury and Hamilton contracted a mystery disease. The biggest thing was we went from a 4th place schedule to a first place schedule before we were ready for it.

The Jags played a 1st place schedule. The Texans a 4th, Colts a 3rd and the Titans a 2nd. This meant NONE of those teams played the 49ers, Bills, or KC. The previous season I maintain we were a 6-3-8 team with the 3 being "lucky" win games. Come on, how often does a ball bounce off a helmet for a pick 6. We have since 2000 played a first place schedule only twice. Both times we were 6-10. This year's 9-8 was hard earned, but except for us beating ourselves would have been at least 11-6.

Don't get me wrong, the loss to the Titans gutted me Sunday. I was screaming kick the field goal at the TV. Now that it is done we need to totally rebuild the O;line. We have 3 offensive linemen, Cam and Harrison with Little as backup. Looking at the free agent market coming up there is a dearth of possibilities as good big o-linemen seem to be scarce. So we will need to draft some good guys. We also need 1 or 2 BIG N NASTY D-linemen as I cannot see us having a lot of cap room for big guys on either line At least productive ones, we have plenty of the other type already.

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