“I don’t want to pay more money for the same team”

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(08-06-2025, 07:42 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: How will this team be good enough for a AFC Championship game? Hard to imagine the Super Bowl.
1. Burrow/Chase/Higgins have to all have great years
2. The DL. Slaton has to stop the run. Feel good about that. We will be better there. Somebody else has to emerge as a force. Whether it’s Shemar or whoever.
3. OL Brown and Mims need to stay healthy. Dylan has to be better than Volson. RG is scary
4. Chase Brown…. He’s not Saquan Barkley but he needs to make his name known in the NFL. The NFL needs to know he’s our star running back. Not a number.
5. The secondary. They need to play much better

I see this team making it to the AFC semi finals. I just don’t think we are better than KC, Balt,or the Bills. But in that group of 4.

Oh I'm right there with you, possibly even more pessimistic.
I don't think this team is really better than last year, and they were maybe a 11-12 win team if they hadn't started so slow.
This team did not address pass rush and pass blocking like I felt they needed to to be able to compete with the pass-heavy juggernauts like KC and BUF.
As much as doing better against the rushing teams in the AFC North might help them get into the playoffs, those teams aren't getting to the Super Bowl. It's the teams with good passing QBs.
I guess getting to the playoffs is a bit better than just barely missing like the past two years, but if they can't get to AFCCG or Super Bowl, it's still a disappointment in my eyes.