Next season we should be a lot closer to 8 wins than 3.

 

There has been a lot of grumbling this season... premature pitchforks...

But next season we should be starting less (if any) rookies.

Everyone skill position will be manned by a vet (2 year, 3 year, stop gap)

Our ST should improve, our Oline has no reason to be worse...

 

 

There is a lot of reason to be optimistic about the future.

But the groaning and griping will hold a lot more water if we finish the 2015 campaign picking top 5 draft talent again.


I see no reason why Bortles, Lee, Robinson, Hurns, Drob, and the plethora of youthful playmakers on D (Davis, Smith, Colvin, Cyp) can't win 8 games next season.

 

If they don't... they're either misses (or the oft-overly-used-busts) or the coaching isn't getting what they are worth.

By this time next year we'll know if youth, scheme, or talent is/was the problem

And we'll know who to truly blame.

 

Anything less, in my opinion, of 7 or 8 wins next season is a failure.

This season I didn't measure failure by wins and losses. I watched as much as I could with my eyes. I saw the talent, the flashes, the growing pains, the problems. 

It is all correctable. And so... I patiently await correction.

 

Super Bowl? I dunno if this squad will ever be that good. Time will tell. But I just want to be back to where this team was mid 2000's. Competing. Playoff contention. A wild card game every now and then.

I don't think it is too much to expect this squad to give us a 10 win or better 2016 campaign.

Next season... and the rest to come (until we must rebuild again) will be the time to count the w's and measure our coaches and front office by such.

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