AsylumGuido

I know. I was about to ask what the Titans QB has to do with Tampa myself.

AsylumGuido

I'll play too.

I do not see Tampa as much of a threat. Yes, they did win nine games last season, but they also had the weakest schedule in the NFC South coming off the previous year's last place finish. Every year, as Dude mentioned, they fail to live up to the hype and Jameis Winston isn't the quality QB that many talking heads claim.

Carolina is also over-hyped based upon that 15-1 2015 season. But if you look back upon it you will notice how many of those games were won single-handedly by Cam Newton. If they were down and needed to go 70 yards for a score he would carry the ball five times to get those 70 yards to score. But, last season, teams finally learned how to defense Newton by punishing him whenever he had the ball. It was so effective that he had his worst season ever.

I too see Atlanta as the most serious threat, but the Falcon's run last season was spurred on by quite a bit of luck facing several teams missing key pieces including two shootouts with the Saints losing both CB's before the week three game and six CB's by the final game. Losing the SB in the manner they did will most likely have a negative impact as will losing the genius behind their offense, Kyle Shanahan.

I see the Saints as having just as good a chance as any of the others to take the division.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

The Dude

Btw after I posted that I knew it would be you who read the whole thing to try and point out whatever you could find wrong with the thread.

AsylumGuido

I was only the second one. Pretty much everyone in here would have pointed that out. I did read the whole thing and thought you made some very good points, to which I did point out that I agreed.