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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4702645, member: 405"]
There are a lot of good players on this team this year.  If we can enter the season healthy (for once!), we appear to have quite a bit more depth at a lot of positions than we have in the past.

I am optimistic about the coming season.  Of course, losing LaQuint Allen would really hurt the team's prospects.  Seems like we lost Duce Chestnut specifically because of happenings the same evening.

We are pretty close to being an 8 win team again.  Tough stretch in the schedule.  Moving a home game to NYC for money?  Eh, I was kind of hoping we were past having to do that as a program.  Seems like we might be giving away a win there.

We need to have our key guys stay healthy this year.  We need an 8 man OL to emerge from among all those new guys.  I think we have a lot of talent & experience on the D Line now, and also at LB.  If the transfers work out in the defensive backfield, this could be a hell of a defense, even with the losses and transfers.

Shrader, of course, needs to remain healthy.  He's the key to everything.  The back-ups are getting better, talent-wise, but losing Lamson was losing a guy who has practiced this offense for a couple years already. So we lost experience in the QB room, but maybe gained a couple better athletes who are dual threats, which is what we need.

I think a couple WRs will emerge to go with Gadson.  I hope we use a TE this year more than we usually do.  I think our punter will be better.

Getting excited about this upcoming season.
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