Actually, if you looked at the fixtures, most of our winnable games are up front. So "if you had told me ... after week 7" then anyone who has read the fixture would not have been particularly pumped.
we have a soft draw this year because we finished at the bottom last year. That isn't anything particularly groundbreaking. The rest of the year looks pretty similar to the early rounds. We should go 2/2 at least in the next 4 which would put us at 6-5 which isn't a bad staging area considering we only play 1 more top 4 team for the rest of the year.