Nate Burleson: "I want to win eight games or more"
Players have made predictions. In fact, players in Detroit have made predictions. (See Kitna, Jon)
And those players were wrong.
So, Lions receiver Nate Burleson isn't making a guarantee or promise. Instead, he's making or stating a goal.
Burleson said, "I want to win eight games or more," per Terry Foster of the Detroit News.
"Now if we can have that mind-set, that at the end of the day when we take our jerseys off and look up at the scoreboard, regardless of the result, did they respect us? That means we had a chance to win the game. We were good."
Burleson, who says everyone is "tired of baby steps," could be poised for a big season. He missed two games in 2009, but he was on pace for a 1,000-yard season.
With MegaTron getting all of the defense's attention, Burleson should see (almost exclusively) single coverage.
In my receiver rankings for the 2010 fantasy season, I ranked Burleson as the 34th-best receiver.
That is much higher than his current average draft position (ADP) of 77th WR at MockDraftCentral.com or as the 48th WR selected in the one-man mock draft of ESPN's Christopher Harris.
