The beauty of rookie camp and voluntary workout season is that we’re still months away from having relentless optimism trashed in favor of cold, hard cynicism.
Pretty much every team has gotten better. As a fan of having a relatively sunny disposition, you could look at almost any roster right now and think “O.K., maybe if things get weird, we end up in the playoffs.”
However, lurking beneath the surface are things we aren’t talking much about, either because football fatigue is still in effect and it’s too early to care, or because there seems to be a long enough time before the season starts for an issue to resolve itself.