Both our offense and defense should be better this year. Even relying on youth at CB and S...I think we are better there. We get Jaylen Smith and added some solid pieces on the DL. Losing Free and Leary hurts, but Collins and one of Green, Cleary, Bell, Cooper should not be a big drpp off.
The Raiders certainly had more defensive talent than we did last year, but gave up about 5 points per game more.
Sadly, we find some kind of comfortability in expecting bad things to happen, but the fact of the matter is that this team is really fucking good.