This started as a best case/worst case type of article, but the pessimism required for the latter, even as an exercise, turned out to be too much for my poor soul to bear. So I settled on this. Let's get right into it.
Here are three reasons we might be worse..
1) The Injury Bug
This first one is true of just about every team in the country, but the surest path to regression is always going to be an injury to the wrong guy. If Will Grier gets hurt, or 1 or 2 of the wrong offensive or defensive lineman, we're probably in bad shape.