Who are your fall off teams for 2011 (1 Viewer)

[LawFitz]

Who do you all think will be the biggest disappointments in terms of fantasy or real football this year?

My three from 2010:

Cowboys (OL is awful!),

Vikings (don't trust the ankle) and

Redskins (Shanny inheriting a mess)



ETA: 2011 update and my new falloff teams for this season:

Bears - OL stinks; Cutler won't last with that OL and Martz' plays

Colts - Have a bad feeling about Manning and the D.

Chiefs - Overachieved last season; will come back down to Earth to finish behind Chargers, Raiders.

 

[Phil McRevis]

Phil thinks the Patriots are really going to surprise a lot of people. And not in a good way. The other teams in the division are stronger, their defense looks to be awful, Moss is another year older, and there's no way Welker is as healthy as it seems.

 

[Phil McRevis]

Phil is going to pick the Eagles. Phil loves Andy Reid but Phil thinks McNabb was much better than most Eagles fans every realized. The birds are going to crash hard this year.

Phil won't be shocked to see McNabb's new team finish with a better record.

 

[Andy Herron]

Andy thinks Phil is really Jimmy.

ETA:

 

[jurb26]

jurb26 thinks Phil is wrong on both accounts.

 

[Iwannabeacowboybaby!]

Who do you all think will be the biggest disappointments in terms of fantasy or real football this year?My three are the Cowboys (OL is awful!), Vikings (don't trust the ankle) and Redskins (Shanny inheriting a mess)

You could be right about the Cowboys and Vikings but you think the Redskins fall off from last year's record? It's not much to fall from? I think the Redskins are as good as last year or better.I think the Patriots are on a decline. If they win that division again this year, it may be BB's best year of coaching to date.

 

[jurrassic]

Going with the Vikings. Everything seems to be going badly for that team. Injuries, migraines, poor performance, in-fighting, harder schedule, year older, still poor coaching which may finally catch up to them. Just doesn't look good.

 

[dcgangstas]

It's almost too easy to say the Cardinals. I don't see that team winning more than 6 games.

 

[dcgangstas]

Phil is going to pick the Eagles. Phil loves Andy Reid but Phil thinks McNabb was much better than most Eagles fans every realized. The birds are going to crash hard this year. Phil won't be shocked to see McNabb's new team finish with a better record.

Rather pretentious to speak in the third person, don't you think?

 

[Judge Smails]

Going with the Vikings. Everything seems to be going badly for that team. Injuries, migraines, poor performance, in-fighting, harder schedule, year older, still poor coaching which may finally catch up to them. Just doesn't look good.

The Thurs night opener at the Saints will be most telling - for both teams. Will NO suffer a SB letdown like a lot of teams do? If not, with Favre being gimpy/rusty, Rice gone, and aggressive Saints D this could turn out to be an ugly blowout. I'm betting on the latter.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Teams that will disappoint:

Philly - Kolb will have some major growing pains. After going 11-5 last year, I see them falling back to 9-7 or even 8-8.

Minnesota - I just don't see them recapturing the magic of 2009, and I have no faith in Brad Childress to pull off some magic. I think they still go 10-6 and sneak in as a wild card, but that is it.

NY Jets - Essentially a .500 team last year, everyone is predicting big things for them this year, but I don't see it. Sanchez still looks awful at times, and I think the intense scrutiny and expectations will inevitably weight on them too much.

Cincinnati - After a great start last year, this was an average team over the second half of the season. Expectations are high after the Owens signing, but I think a lot of football fans in Ohio are gonna be disappointed.

I could see the Patriots dropping off a bit, largely because of the defense, but I think the offense will still be good enough to get them to 10 wins.

 

[BoltzNBrew]

Bears

Philly

Jets

 

[LawFitz]

Bump for new season and new fall off teams.

 

[Vicktimized]

LOL @ the "return" of Phil McRevis, even if only bumped from last year.