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What were your expectations for this season?

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Never more than 4 games this year ........and never more than a .500 season thereafter until the ketchup on steak Big Brain sells the team and leaves town for good. 

No winning any division and no making the playoffs.........as long as the Orifice of Narcissism waves his drinks and throws them at the serfs who purchase his company store product.  

Uhh..........did I happen to mention I'm not a fan of Tepper?

But you figured that? 

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Expected the offense to make some strides forward, with the most certainty with pass protection given the O-line investment. Did expect the defense to be worse to where it would offset offensive gains. Was thinking between 4~7 wins but the injuries have been savage.

Oh, and I am still expecting Tepper to do something incredibly stupid this season.

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I have been baffled since day 1 why anyone that used logic considered Bryce Young a day 1 QB prospect. Outside of intelligence Bryce never showed any plus traits to be considered a round 1 prospect.  I expected about 3 to 4 wins this season at this point I can see 2 to 3.  

Morgan invested all of the team’s resources to try to make Bryce look serviceable.  That kind of decision can only be granted to a 1st time GM by the owner.  Hey! Let’s divest all resources from the defense and invest it into the offense. This has been a forced experiment to coddle Tepper’s ego. Tepper wanted to prove to the world he knew what he was doing by picking Young over Stroud. He did not.  

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I've been saying three wins since the summer. I just didn't know our equation to get there. I thought we'd get to four to six wins only if we were lucky. Well, we aren't. I could never have imagined so many injuries. I expected Bryce to peter out despite at least a solid O-line, for Chuba to be Chuba, for Diontae Johnson to be a dawg, and for Legette to flash. I expected the offense to be better, but didn't know what to expect from the defense, though nothing great (especially without a pass rush). So overall it may be a little worse, mainly due to injuries.

 

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I expected the offense to be strong enough to make Bryce dangerous to us by showing enough to start offering some people false hope - and we'd be stuck with him coming back. I was scared of that because I never had any faith in him and wanted clear cut proof so we could move forward - likely without him. Lose and take a new QB, is basically what I was rooting for, I guess. 

I thought we'd be able to contain teams better by stopping the run more effectively. I thought it would take a few weeks for everything to reveal because new coach new players new system. 

I didn't see the devastating injury wave taking us out by week 5. And I didn't see Brooks sitting being useless after 6 games had gone by. 

At the same time I knew this wasn't a one year fix and expected more realism from fans in that regard. They had loaded up the offense and watered down the defense and I did not like that. I resented all the investment in Bryce's training wheels at the expense of team balance.  

It's a tough space, I was bitching about the lack of investment in the D all season, while at the same time loving the OL. Thinking they spent too much on the guards... thinking Icky should have been moved inside, and spend that on replacing him at LOT. But overall still coming back to it was never going to be a one year fix and knowing the defense was going to be short. Not THIS short. 

But the season was to be all about Young showing what he is, I expected that to be a longer process but am not unhappy that it played out quickly - if they will just leave him where he belongs which is off the field I'll consider it mission accomplished. 

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