Ten bold predictions for the 2013 NFL season
By Corey Hogue
Can you feel it? Summer is slowly creeping away, giving way to fall. Football is here. While we have had some surprising revelations already in the college football world, I believe that the world of Pro Football will have some interesting twists as well.
You can annually count on some saviors become duds, some no-names become franchise faces, and that the Lions will have the most-penalized team in the NFL. But I will provide the next step, my 10 pretty extreme bold predictions for the 2013 NFL season. Feel free to dissect and contest every point. Feel free to agree and praise every claim. I welcome criticism.
1. Josh Freeman will have a lukewarm year, buying him another season to prove he can take the next step. Freeman has the talent and the weapons. He has a great offensive line. Doug Martin will help take pressure off of him and the Bucs defense may give up less yards than it did last year. Ultimately, though, Freeman will continue to have issues and will fail to shoulder the Bucs to much more than a mediocre season, at best. An 8-8 or 9-4 is the best-case scenario.