Content Post A dead period topic - Drake Maye expectations for year 3 - Realistic and otherwise

[mgteich]

I base my comments on the difficulty of the 2026 schedule and not your blind team worship.

OK, so the schedule costs us 3 games. That's still 11 wins. And, BTW, BUF's schedule is at least as difficult.

Do you think that we won't make the playoffs? There's even a good chance of us winning the division.

Once we are in the playoffs, the tough schedule won't matter much. Of course, we do have to play better in the playoffs than we did last year.

I don't expect us to have a bye. We should be in the playoffs with a better team than last year. And then we'll see what happens.