Tennessean projecting 5 Ws this season

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  1. Five wins feels as reasonable as anything else. Success for this team this season isn’t really measured in wins. It’ll be measured mainly by how Cam Ward looks and partly by development of young players throughout the roster.

    The nature of QB means that if Cam looks good, we’ll win some games. And if our young guys come along well, we’ll win more games later in the season than early on.

    And, as much as I do not believe that the success of *this* season should really be calculated in wins and losses, sport judgement is results-based, and there’s no simpler, clearer result than W-L.

    I think winning fewer than 5 games could be a problem for this coaching staff. But I think this team *should* be able to get 5 to 7 wins. More than that feels pretty hopeful to me, though.

  2. If the OL can hold for him and give him time, it will let him shine. I know it is not a cure-all, but will allow them to have some success. I hope for a .500 season, but that is a big ask. Unfortunately, for players like Simmons, his window is slowly closing on big success here.

  3. I’ll raise you to 7 wins, if we can average 23-27 points a game…..our defense is good enough to keep the games close but we will have to actually score to build up for a championship run next year. Yes I’m Optimistic Prime transform and roll out

  4. One point of disagreement I have is on Week 4 at Houston. The away team in the rivalry is 8-2 over the last 10 games regardless of the quality of the opponent. Furthermore, our interior defensive line did plenty of work in last year’s bout in H-Town, getting two sacks and lots of pressure to say nothing of Laremy Tunsil and Joe Mixon being gone.

    Beyond that, Houston wasn’t even that dominant in their matchups against the AFC South. They swept the Jags and Colts with point differentials of 7 and 5, respectively. They split with us with a PD of 4 in their favor. I see them winning one against us, but it’s unlikely to be 2017 Groper Cleveland in Houston bad.

  5. What I’m reading between the lines here is that the author has no faith in Callahan, and thinks he’ll likely be fired by the end of the season. 5 wins is right at that fireable margin, with losing out to the Texans being the tipping point at which AAS would trapdoor his ass Jabba style and feed him to T-Rac chained up under the stadium.

    The way I see it, last season’s cursed lineup could’ve eclipsed 5 wins if Levis and ST hadn’t given away the ball so often. Now that the bad men are gone (unless you count Callahan among them), this team is, at worst, a 7 winner.

  6. Honestly I don’t really care about W/L this season. I just want to find out if Ward is the guy and if we’ll be shopping for a new HC or not. Vegas has our win total at 5.5. Six wins or more should have us feeling excited for the future. 

  7. There is no evidence that Trevor Lawrence will be any better this season than last so we pick up at least one extra win there.

  8. Feels reasonable but would be disappointing.

    Would be good long term to get more talent though.

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