When Lions quarterback Jon Kitna predicted last year that the team would win at least 10 games, everyone laughed. Then they stopped laughing when Detroit got off to a 6-2 start — and then they started laughing again when the Lions limped to a 7-9 finish.

Kitna, however, doesn’t care if anyone laughs. And at the Lions’ facilities today, he told reporters that he’s making the 10-win prediction again this year.

“Our expectation is we will be disappointed if we don’t win 10 games,” Kitna said, per the Detroit Free Press. “Because that will mean we’re not in the playoffs … I can’t make it any simpler than that. Anybody who says that’s not their expectations level is unfortunately not that much of a competitor.”

The last time the Lions won 10 games in a season was in 1995, when they finished 10-6 and lost their wild card playoff game.

Kitna also made clear that if the Lions are going to win 10 games, they’ll do it with him under center. Asked if he thinks there’s a competition at quarterback, Kitna answered, “I don’t. I think I’m pretty well established as the leader of this football team and the quarterback. [Head coach] Rod [Marinelli] has never wavered from that. I don’t expect that to be any different this year and I’m pretty excited about where we’re going as a football team.”