NFL Week 3 Thread

[UG]

I know we're only 2 weeks in, but I just can't remember the last time a team coming off a playoff birth has come out the next season looking so bad...

Hey, hey easy. Last year Pittsburg looked pretty pathetic 4 games into the season, and they were coming off a Superbowl victory. We barely squeaked into the playoffs last year.
Jared Allen coming back this week will make a huge difference in our pass rush. The offense is still crap, but our defense should be even better this weekend at ARROWHEAD!!

We were not a playoff team last year. Okay, technically we made it into the Playoffs and had a game against the Indianapolis Colts where they absolutely DESTROYED us.....but we were not playoff worthy last year. We were the same team we've been the last thirteen years or so. Good enough to have a chance, good enough not to suck.....but by no means good enough to contend at all.

We were a 9-7 team last year and were lucky to do that. We needed the miracle of all miracles to get into the playoffs too. Four teams had to lose on the final day of the season, and I think three (if not all four) of those teams were at home. Yeah we were a "playoff team" but we definitely never played like one last year.

The defense gets a big shot in the arm and should be even better with Jared "A.A." Allen coming back.....but the offense will still suck. Last time I checked you needed to put points on the board to win, and I don't see us doing much of that this year at all.

All I know is, give Herm a chance. It takes three full years to turn around a franchise, whether that's at the high school level or the highest level of play there is. We're in year two, and this year we're going to suck. Next year we should be starting to turn the corner.....hopefully by year four we have a chance to contend for the playoffs and maybe more. I'm not holding my breath, though.