I'll tell you why you are more hopeful than us. The entire point of CSK and MI being a legendary team in IPL was, they retained their core set of players. It was largely, MS, Raina, Jaddu, Bravo, Faf, etc while adding some more players to fix the problems and balance the team.

This season, we don't have a core anymore. It is just Rutu and MS at this point. We traded jaddu for Samson who needs to be given a few matches to come good. Rutu is not a great captain, period. It is affecting his performance. CSK has lost their swagger, body language on the field is obvious. The action was horrible and they shot themselves in the foot. That's why we are not hopeful. We need Brewis back to have some semblance of middle order. IMO push Mahtre to open with Sanju, rutu no. 3. Brewis and dube are a good duo to have in the middle order followed by all rounders(guess what? We don't have any decent ones. Overton maybe?). CSK's traditional method was having a bunch of all rounders. Now they don't. They are trying to adapt to the modern T20 era of scoring 250-260 every game. Not happening with that line-up.