Random Retrospective: 2008 Preview Edition

Other notes:

DBN was collectively REALLY high on Wimbley.

DBN was fairly sold on DA being an average to solid starter, but not great.

Mr. Kelsey is smart: “On Anderson- I think he is really bad. I really do.”

For all my DA love, at least I made one accurate comment, “does DA seem any dumber than Roethlisberger? Honestly, that guy gives me more of a dumbass vibe than some of the linebackers to have played in that city.”

Haha, I had sleeper Antwaan Peek who of course I think did not even play the entire year due to injury. I was a fan of his though. At least I was nervous about the QBs more than anything else.

i think i joined after the 2008 season started and didn’t do a prediction on here, therefore:

i predicted DA would be awful, we would fall way off from where we were in 2007, and it would be romeo’s last year as HC; i also said BE would develop the dropsies and that we’d all hate him inside a year.

Just took a look at some of my old posts. A few observations:

1. Am I the only one who didn’t pick up on Rocland’s recent name change?
2. The conversations were a lot better during the season.
3. Terrible Terry Tate should be a minion.
4. Where did Don’tCallMeJoey disappear to?

http://www.dawgsbynature.com/2009/5/6/862068/2010-draft

OUCH! I sure missed on Dunlap and Sam Young. I still like Dwyer but I was too high on him.

Yikes.

Can we delete that thread?

Love this retrospective thread idea. Unfortunately, I wasn’t around yet in 2008. (I don’t know how you all managed to get by without me. Joke)

Anyway, I started commenting here in the 2009 off-season.
I just thought it’d be fun to point out I was right about 2 things then:

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Jerome Harrison (from this thread):
May 17, 2009

I would love to see more Jerome Harrison this season, and it is a big shame we didn’t see more of him in 2008. He has only been continuously getting better every year. He averaged 6.2 yards per carry in ’07 and improved on that in ’08 by another yard with 7.2 per carry, and remember those numbers are despite being held back so much so for the past two years. I think the potential for a breakout season is pretty obvious.

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Brady Quinn & Derek Anderson sucking (from this epic thread):
June 18, 2009

Lets say we do trade for Marshall, and we have Edwards, and 100 or so rookie WRs… now lets go as far to say they become an amazing receiving core like we’ve seen in Arizona, New England, or Indy…… we’re missing a piece that all those teams had. Payton Manning, Tom Brady, even Kurt Warner. We don’t have that caliber of QB. We are stuck with two or three decent back-up QBs that make for sub-par starters. Unless DA has some miracle return to the first half of 2007, but I know most of you here don’t think that’ll happen.

Albeit one of my reasons for foreseeing Quinn as no good was stupid, my main point holds true today: He sucks, as does Anderson.

Rufio, Kwoog, and Fwembt arguing about the secondary is pretty funny. Rufio/Fwembt were proven correct on those opinions.