All these complaints about the team are amusing, considering the team is mostly the same as how Bill left it, with the exception that it's slightly better. None of the players that have left contributed very much. In fact, some were huge problems (Mac, Parker). They kept the best players or depth players.
The new players signed replaced the departing players and in most cases improved the roster. The roster has about 70 players signed. The draft is yet to happen, and will add another 8 players. Then you have UDFAs, and UFAs yet to be signed, nvm about possible trades.
On the playoffs, this is what Kraft said:
"My hope, and expectations, is to make the playoffs. That’s something, realistically, we have a new leadership team, we’re going to have a lot of young players we don’t know – a lot can happen. We might struggle more than I want. But the good news, when you’re running any businesses, you try to figure out what the key variables are, and then you try to put people in place that you think can react and adapt to what has to happen. I really feel we have a good young team. I just hope we don’t struggle. But in the end, everything is chit-chat until you get on the field. X’s and O’s are where it’s at."
Seems like a pretty realistic take to me.