Crazy Great Expectations: 12-4 Year and more...

Originally posted by 9erguy:

Originally posted by cciowa:
8 wins. after game 5 or 6 i may or may not adjust

You think we're are going 6-8 the rest of the way?

uhm if we are 5-0 , and they continue to play well and over come staleys thing, sure i will move the arrow up past the 8 i thought this team was capable of. is that ok with you?

Originally posted by BigBug415:

Originally posted by 9erguy:

Originally posted by cciowa:
8 wins. after game 5 or 6 i may or may not adjust

You think we're are going 6-8 the rest of the way?

This.

Crack is a hell of a drug.

you predicted 12 and after 2 games. i think that is a titch crackish! but we will see. i would be happy to say i was wrong and this is a ten win team instead of 8. but i am not willing to say that after a small two game sample

Originally posted by D0PEMAN:
I don't blame folks for being cautiously optimistic. Sure the other teams in our division is 2-0 but my take is that they don't look as dominating as the Niners.

One thing is for certain, NFC West is looking strong this year.

and then new england just has a cake walk , as usual

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
We might go 12-4 with NO and Pittsburg now looking like winnable games. What would concern me is we might fall into a false sense of how good we are like Jacksonville did a couple years ago because they had an easy schedule. We are not a 12-4 team yet. 8-9 or 9-7 but not 12-4.

i think this is perfectly logical and 80 does not deserve to be told. he is not a fan or he is on crack or he is negative just because he is not willing to say we are a 12 win team after 2 games

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

We might go 12-4 with NO and Pittsburg now looking like winnable games. What would concern me is we might fall into a false sense of how good we are like Jacksonville did a couple years ago because they had an easy schedule. We are not a 12-4 team yet. 8-9 or 9-7 but not 12-4.

i think this is perfectly logical and 80 does not deserve to be told. he is not a fan or he is on crack or he is negative just because he is not willing to say we are a 12 win team after 2 games

Logic dictates that a 12-4 team is a 12-4 team.

I could see 12 wins but 11-5 feels more right.

#Stayhumble.

but after we win the superbowl FUDGE IT

Originally posted by cciowa:
uhm if we are 5-0 , and they continue to play well and over come staleys thing, sure i will move the arrow up past the 8 i thought this team was capable of. is that ok with you?

Thats not how predictions work... you said what you thought of this team so just ride with it. Don't go against who you are.

It's a total hypothetical but I can see a future post saying "They are only gonna win six unless they win 8 so Ill change my prediction to 8 unless they win 12 then Ill move it to 12... but even if they win 12 they could be the next Jacksonville so why even get excited. But even if they have a winning record 2 years in a row the window is probably closing so get ready for the 'I told ya so'. Wait they won a superbowl? Well get ready for that superbowl hangover season, wait they repeated?... well get ready for the downturn since it cant last forever. After 10 straight superbowl wins they had a losing season? See told ya guys some things just dont change and sometimes you gotta see through the homerism like me."

Bengals shoulda beat the hawks and we just smashed em in their house..maybe we lose to the rams first game without Staley and split games with hawks. I hate to say it but I think the browns will give us trouble. Especially with Staley out Myles Garrett will be in the backfield all day

13-3

I believe we will win a minimum of 9 games and a maximum of 11.

Originally posted by smithgdwg:
I need to see us play the Rams and Seattle before claiming this.

I agree. The schedule does seem fairly soft with favorable timing of opponents' misfortunes.
The real tests will be against the hardened teams. If they hold up, that'd be a great confidence booster.

Honestly 9-7 would be pretty good. That would only be the 4th winning season in 17 years. During the previous 16 years we were at or near the bottom of the NFL for about 50% of the time. I like what I see, but I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched. If the LT positions holds up, I could see 10-6.

Originally posted by riverrunzthruit:

dude put down the crack pipe immediately... only 2 games down and lots of football left to play... I would be thrilled with 8-8 considering what we have been through the last several years

Lmfao that s**t was funny. My prediction is still 10-6 same as it was before the season started. We can potentially be 4-0 going into the Rams game week 6. The Browns will be our first big test i hope Jimmy can avoid Miles Garrett.

Originally posted by SkyZer0:

Originally posted by riverrunzthruit:
dude put down the crack pipe immediately... only 2 games down and lots of football left to play... I would be thrilled with 8-8 considering what we have been through the last several years

not gonna lie, he kinda has a point. the rest of the NFC west look like so shaky and off despite Hawks and Rams being 2-0.. Saints could be interesting, then we have Pitt. I would not be surprised if we swept our division, honestly.

I'm confused how do the NFC West look shaky and off when both teams are 2-0? Because they didn't win by as many as we've won? That seems like a silly comparison when the teams are different.

We have not beaten a single team which is considered a playoff team heading into this season at this point. Say what you will about Seattle but at least they already got their W against the Steelers and at Pittsburgh. Rams just took out the Saints, you can say they only beat them with Bridgewater but they still beat a very talented playoff expected team.

Until we prove ourselves we shouldn't overlook the division. I thought Seattle would fall apart but they're 2-0 regardless of who they've faced and unlike us they've managed to win games when people were predicting them to be in a "rebuild".

If we handle the Steelers and put them away by the 3rd quarter to go 3-0, then I might start to dream 10+ wins this year.