My hopes for the Upcoming season:

[mgteich]

Here are my hopes for the upcoming season:

- That the injury bug has moved on. Particularly for Christian Gonzalez and Marcus Jones.
- That Christian Barmore's issues with blood clots are a thing of the past.
- That Diggs does actually help Polk/Baker/Boutte/Douglas reach their potential.
- That whomever the Pats add at OT, RB, and D-line are at least the quality of the likes of Mike Vrabel, Sebastian Vollmer, Ty Warren and Kevin Faulk.

Your hopes were so reasonable until the last point.

 

[DaBruinz]

Bringing in a Vrabel, Vollmer, Warren and Faulk in one draft is a tall order.

I am hoping for a meaningful game in week 18. That will be my litmus test for success.

Look at the types of players they were when they first got to the Patriots. I don't think it's a tall order at all.

Those players were hard-nosed, hard working players who wanted to excel. They weren't the finished products that people think of regularly.

This draft is supposed to be loaded with more than 3 rounds of that have the talent to have 6-10 yr careers. Expecting the Pats to add that quality of player when they currently have 4 picks in the first 3 rounds should be everyone's expectation with the Pats picking so early in each round.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

I want to see a team that fights to the finish - win or lose

 

[JayNM]

Real answer is I think a wild card is the best of the worlds

7 wins is my bet