I appreciate your hopeful attitudes, but this is the same old pre-season Kool-Aide. Even the 3-10 team had better players. Look at the key losses: Ryan Miller, Tony Clemons, Paul Richardson, Rodney Stewart, Josh Hartigan, Tyler Hansen, Conrad Obi, Ryan Deehan, Anthony Perkins, Curtis Cunningham. Most of those guys made it into an NFL camp. You replace a guy in an NFL camp with a guy who was in high school three months ago, and you don't get better. It doesn't matter how much the local media hypes the team. This time last year, Jon Embree was comparing Tyler Mcullough to Ed McCaffrey. He said Conrad Obi would dominate. Everybody on AllBuffs was predicting 6-8 wins.