Well I have anxiety about not being ready because baby #1 came at 36 weeks.

So I would say if you have a chest freezer and the space, probably like 6-8 weeks out. We’re a month out and I’m going to go full blast this weekend because we just got the chest freezer Monday & the FoodSaver Saturday.

That makes me feel better. Our nursery is done, top to bottom. But still, impressive work.

3, and picky, we don’t feel guilty about anything. We do our best. Great questions!

Holy cats!

Edit: that was you!!? I wish…

I agree with both of your points, but I think it’s important that we call a spade a spade.

The quarterbacks we have faced are:

1. Goff
2. Herbert
3. Cousins
4. Wilson
5. Ridder
6. Fields
7. Carr/Winston
8. Garoppolo
9. Pickett
10. Rypien

We’ve only faced 1 real elite QB in Herbert, and he’s without one of his favorite weapons, oh and his coach sucks. Honestly is he even elite? Either way, we did well against the team as a whole.

Goff, Cousins, Wilson & Carr, the guys who are above average all did well against us. All but one of our interceptions came against the below average guys. Ridder, Rypien, Fields, Jimmy G. The one INT that came against a better QB was Goff.

I think a good test is going to be the Chiefs. The best QB in the league and a great defense. We’ll see how the offense can perform but we’ll also see if the defense can hold their own. If we get the doors blown off we’ll know that our record was built on a house of cards.

Can you be a dark horse contender if you are a top 5 team 17% of the way through the season?

At what point are you just a contender? If you are a top 5 team through 25% 35% of the season? Or when playoffs begin?

There are more cases of quarterbacks early in their career who are god-awful who turn out to be hall of famers than there are CJ Strouds. So it’s just a matter of having patience.

A lot of success comes from playing with the same guys for a long time.

There have been stories told of both Brady and Rodgers where they’d ask to run a play from years ago, that featured the receiver they wanted. In Brady’s case he was calling to go to Edelman from a play >3 years in the past that the team used once, unsuccessfully. It worked and they scored a touchdown.

Playing together, for a long time, helps. Chemistry can’t be understated. We just need to give it time.

We’ve got young receivers who are still out there running wrong routes and a young QB who hasn’t seen the nuances of NFL defenses for a full season. I expect a huge jump next year.