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Hester and Keiland Willaims were lead rushers in 2006 and 2007.

Bowe and Davis left in 2006 but they did return Doucet who had 772 yards and 8 TDs in 2006.
Our top returning WR has 219 yds and 1 TD.

So to recap they returned RB1 and RB2 and a 700+ 8 TD WR. So is it really the same?

I wasn’t intending to say the situations are exactly the same, but merely to point out that it is very possible to lose a ton of talent and production on offense and not only not miss a beat, but do even better.

I didn’t even mention 2012 either, but that offense lost a ton of production and leadership and also had an OC shift similar to this year and the team went 10-2 only losing to two top 5 teams (and beating one as well). And they lost far more on defense than this team did as well.

And as for 2007, replacing Jamarcus Russell, Dwayne Bowe, Craig Davis PLUS senior leaders in the backfield in Justin Vincent and Alley Broussard seems a bigger task than losing Etling, Chark, Guice, and Williams.

But what both 2007 and 2012 had, that this team all of a sudden has as well, is a veteran quarterback to lean on as the new stars stepped up and carried those teams to successful seasons.

See you can rationalize all you want, but the guys from last year are far from irreplaceable, and with our supposed upgrade at OC, there is every reason to believe that this offense and these players absolutely SHOULD be better than last year’s unit.

If it is, 10 wins is a very reasonable goal with this defense and no one will doubt that we are ready to make a real championship run in 2019.

If it isn’t, we are in the same boat as we have been since 2012 and only blind faith would convince anyone that the next year would be any different.

This post was edited on 6/27/18 at 1:11 pm