Opening the mailbag for questions on improved teams, Chargers weapons, what the start of the season will look like, Andy Dalton in Dallas and Josh McDaniels’s future.

Times may be getting slow in the NFL, but mail keeps coming in. So I’ll keep answering it …

From seed (@seed32041243): What is the non-playoff team that improved their chances the most of making the playoffs during the offseason?

Easy answer: Tampa. They added a legendary quarterback and a legendary tight end, even if those guys aren’t quite what they were a few years back, and got a tackle that some considered to be the best in the draft in the teens. The defense, with a top-shelf coordinator in Todd Bowles at the controls, started to ascend at the end of last year. And they were 7-7 with a shot at the playoffs in late December, despite Jameis Winston’s 30-interception season.

I don’t know