GRETZ: This Is Rock Bottom

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by bobbything

It's easier to take the losses when you can see certain areas of the team improving. All I've seen is each area regressing with each game. Significantly.

And when you look at this team next season, who are the "young" players that are supposed to lead us to the promise(d) land? I count Croyle, K. Smith, Bowe, Allen, Hali, D. Johnson, Page, Pollard.

8 players out of 22. I suppose you could count Webb, Tyler, and McBride. Even so, half of the team isn't "young" at all.

This team could be just as awful, if not worse, next season.

I'll hawk this to the end, but when you're watching an awful team get better, it doesn't look like you expect it to. It's more like Lost than an Episode of Law and Order. You're building a whole unit, and it's not like building a house where one day there's a foundation, then there's some framing, then the HVAC gets installed.
But for those familar with Lost, they'd supposedly envisioned the entire series as a jugsaw puzzle, where you get a piece here and a piece there, and it all makes sense at the end.
And it seems like it's the same for a rebuilding team. Things look like a mess from 1000 different directions from week to week. You'll have the D hold up one week and fall apart the next. You'll have a WR shine for a game then disappear for a while, then one day, or more likely one season, it all 'fits.'
Don't expect a straight-line progression in a rebuild it'll drive you nuts.