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Message: [QUOTE="CbusCuse, post: 4266581, member: 507"] Considering the brutal schedule which is not an excuse, it really will be difficult. I think we get 5 or 6 wins with 5 being most likely. But 4 is definitely a possibility depending on how injuries play out. Really love the staff changes and I think Anae and Beck are going to help the passing game a lot even if we haven't improved ourselves much at QB or WR. The loss of Lamson makes the W/L prediction even more risky in my opinion as I think he was the better depth QB and who knows if Shrader gets injured and has to miss some games. But i'm not very thrilled with what we have done in the portal regarding the positions that were really more of a critical need. We did pick up players that can help but most are at positions we were more solid at. [U]Positions of more critical need were DL, C or OT, WR, Possibly TE.[/U] DL - Got diddly squat after losing Roscoe, Kingsley, Black, McKinley and Harper. Not good. Very thin on experience and strength. And sure someone could still be added later, but right now we have been unable to get anybody. Doesn't look good. This DL situation has been an issue for a really long time now. We were saved quite a bit in 2021 because of the extra COVID year, otherwise last year would have been a disaster on the DL. C/OT - Got nada. Adding one of these pieces would have made things much more manageable. Really need to hope everyone at least starts the season healthy. WR - Got CJ Hayes who had limited experience and seems more likely to be depth thus far. Got D'Marcus Adams who could help as a deep threat that we really need but has little experience as well. Also unsure Shrader can hit on a deep ball with any kind of consistency. Wish we could have brought in somebody at WR with some sort of proven production. I can understand a WR being kind of difficult to bring in as we don't have a proven passer but I thought the promise of the new scheme with great coordinators would have been enough of a selling point to bring in a starter here considering we don't have much proven at the WR position right now. TE - Got nothing here other than if Villari happens to work at TE some which I don't think is completely out of the question. But less likely now that Lamson is injured though. I think Mang will surprise some and Mahar could as well but really that is all we have. Depth is an issue. [/QUOTE]

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