Quote:Wow.  You really weren't paying attention with all of the youth we were trotting out there last year.

 

Experience alone makes the offense better next year.  An off season in the conditioning program and working on their skills and getting stronger makes them better. That helps Bortles, the receivers, and the linemen significantly.

 

Look at the addition of Julius Thomas, and then look at the fact that the team is still in the hunt for a feature back and a veteran WR. 

 

I don't know how you can look at this offense and ask a silly question like "what has made it better?" unless you simply don't have a clue, especially when you look at how young that team was last year on the offensive side of the ball. 

 

I know it's your MO to hate everything the team does.  Keep up the good work.

Okay, I admit that perhaps more often than not I'm clueless about 'da 'foosball'; however, I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night so here goes...

 

*experience is good, except the other team is a year more experienced also, so it kind'a negates 'experience' as an advantage.

*an off season of strength training and conditioning, and working on their skills is also good... but the clots are doing this also; again, no advantage.

*Julius Thomas was certainly excellent in Denver... with Jughead as his QB. Will he be 'excellent' here? We don't know that yet.

*we don't know what the 'hunt' for RB and a vet WR will yield. Do you have a crystal ball or something that enables you to see the future?

 

I don't know if asking "what has made it better?" is silly or if the suggestion that it's silly is just presumption. I have read somewhere that there is no such thing as a 'stupid question'; perhaps that just means there are a lot of inquisitive idiots out there, who knows?

 

The point is this; I'm not aware that I have a 'modis operandi' of being negative, but I can't say that I'm aware of anything that has clearly given us an edge... outside of an improvement at offensive RT (we hope). I can point to the fact that with a new OC the offense has to learn a new play book which in some ways will put us at a disadvantage given that at least a few players last season were already familiar with JF's playbook.

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