How so?
If I told you right now that Browning would miss 6 games, wouldn't you have a different projection for the season?
Not trying to move a goal post but there are a very small set of variables that if any of them play out could significantly change results.
There's a difference between making excuses and finding anything to explain the results (Auburndoog) versus looking at what happened and explaining what transpired (which is what I try to do) ...
I like how before last season I laughed at the 4-5 win prediction and said that we would be a bowl team and IF everything broke right we would have been an 8-9 win team and then get pegged as saying I predicted 8-9 wins and then pulling an Auburndoog by saying that we on the whole had a decent season full of growing pains