I'm ok with that assessment.
My opinion, however, is that 'yet to be determined' means 'don't have that' until proven otherwise. Especially with the running game and the defense. Neither one of those areas has been any good under Gruden. He doesn't seem to care if he establishes a running game, and the defense has just been terrible since 2010. There's no reason outside of 'hey, we drafted guys' to think things will be different there this year. And every team drafts guys.
The WRs I'm a little less down on. But losing TWO thousand-yard receivers in one season ... is just crazy. I can't see any way to assume the new crew will be as good as the last one. That doesn't mean the WRs will suck, just that I don't know that they will be able to carry the team like they did last year. Again 'yet to be determined' ... meh.
I feel you Henry and know exactly where you're coming from. Perhaps I'm filled with unwarranted guarded optimism (which is far from my wheelhouse) but I think the team, outside of the two obvious head-scratching events involving the GM and the quarterback, has done some nice things in this offseason to address some serious team needs.
1. Primarily focused their efforts to improve the defense at all three levels which nearly every fan hoped and prayed they would do.
2. Named a new DC and hired new DL and DB coaches that will hopefully bring an improved scheme and attitude.
3. Extended Moses and return an entire OL that was really pretty good last season (at least 4 of 5 were). With a more in-shape Kelley, the promise of a tough back in Perine, and Chris Thompson, puts the onus clearly on Gruden to execute an effective scheme to realize running game improvement. Can he? Will he? We will have to wait and see.
4. Adding Pryor, a talented and motivated athlete, minimizes half of the loss of Garçon and Jackson for me. Since the same quarterback will be under center, we will see what factors really contributed and how much to the success of the passing game. How much was the success related to Gruden's scheme, Cousins' accuracy and command of that scheme, and the performances of the two receivers who departed. I guess that's kind of a chicken or egg hypothetical. For me, with our best receiver (Reed) returning along with Crowder and Davis, the addition of Pryor and the anticipated development of Docston, I think the passing game will experience little to no regression.
Yes, the front office is a head-shakingly bad PR bunch but overall, again outside of the two obvious, important, off-season, blunderfests, I'm not all that down on their results. Of course the final results are 'yet to be determined' but that's true for nearly every team in the league outside of Foxboro.