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[quote=SmootSmack;326890]Well if it makes everyone feel better [URL="http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=2926897"]Scouts Inc. [/URL]has the Skins' running back situation ranked as the #3 best in the NFL.



That sounds like respect to me.

(thanks AMD)[/quote]


Trying to make up where everyone else has basically crapped on us.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;326944]Trying to make up where everyone else has basically crapped on us.[/quote]

I've said it many times, and I'll said it again, I absolutely love that we're under everyone's radar. This team over the past few seasons plays a lot better when we're disrespected and up against the wall. I hope the dissing continues frankly.

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[quote=GMScud;326949]I've said it many times, and I'll said it again, I absolutely love that we're under everyone's radar. This team over the past few seasons plays a lot better when we're disrespected and up against the wall. I hope the dissing continues frankly.[/quote]

me too. bought another nfl preview magazine, and has us going 5-11. Man Sporting News people are stupid.

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[quote=Mattyk72;326938]He's got some sort of axe to grind against the Skins. I honestly don't think I've ever heard him say anything remotely positive about them.[/quote]
I listened to him for about a week last year after Tony Kornheiser joined the MNF group. Sportstalk 980 played his show for a while. They may still have him on but I certainly don't listen to it. Every day he had some pathetic comment on how the Skins were the worst and how he thought it was soooo funny. CC* can suck it sideways!




* (not crazycanuck)

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;326975]me too. bought another nfl preview magazine, and has us going 5-11. MAn Sporting News people are stupid.[/quote]

All they do is base their opinions on last year. I'd be willing to be that most of their predicted playoff teams are probably repeats from last year.

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Is it just me or does anyone else think that the Patriots set records next year? Sure, they went nuts in FA, but not the kind of nuts WE went in 2000.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;326975]me too. bought another nfl preview magazine, and has us going 5-11. MAn Sporting News people are stupid.[/quote]

That is what everyone was saying about this time last year too.

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[quote=Mattyk72;327030]All they do is base their opinions on last year. I'd be willing to be that most of their predicted playoff teams are probably repeats from last year.[/quote]

both mags i bought have Pats over Cowboys in the SB.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;327044]both mahs i bought have Pats over Cowboys in the SB.[/quote]

Shocker.

I'll never understand why so many in the media are always on the Cowboys jock. They haven't won more than 9 games in a season since 2003, yet every year the experts fall all over themselves trying to kiss their asses.

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[quote=TheMalcolmConnection;327034]Is it just me or does anyone else think that the Patriots set records next year? Sure, they went nuts in FA, but not the kind of nuts WE went in 2000.[/quote]

Which records are you talking about? That's a pretty vague question. :cheeky-sm

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[quote=djnemo65;326921]Did you hear it angry? It was terrible. He mentioned this to Mort who said, well, Portis is great, but if he does go down they got this guy Betts who can really move the sticks as well. It's the right answer - the reason we are getting the respect that we are... but it was not the answer Colin was looking for. You could feel his disappointment.[/quote]
I think that they take different side just to make it a show as it would be very borning if they agreed on everything.

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[quote=GMScud;326949]I've said it many times, and I'll said it again, I absolutely love that we're under everyone's radar. This team over the past few seasons plays a lot better when we're disrespected and up against the wall. I hope the dissing continues frankly.[/quote]
If it takes the media disrespect to get our players fired up then we have much bigger problems.

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Bodog gives us the third best odds for most rushing yards next year so far:

[URL="http://www.bodog.com/sports-betting/football-team-props.jsp"]NFL Football Team Prop Bets, NFL Team Props at Bodog Sportsbook[/URL]


We are behind Alanta, but that is really attributable to Vick, not just their running backs. And also SD, because of LT - he is just too good and the face of that team

We haven't really had too many russing TD's compared to other big running teams (only 19 last year), for a lot of reasons like, being forced to come from behind, trunovers in the redzone, and not really having a dominating power back.

I could really see our running game tare it up next year. I just hope Portis can stay in good health, I really want to see him return to form

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[quote=Mattyk72;327047]Shocker.

I'll never understand why so many in the media are always on the Cowboys jock. They haven't won more than 9 games in a season since 2003, yet every year the experts fall all over themselves trying to kiss their asses.[/quote]


I dont get it either. To me the Cowboys are the 3rd best team in the division. I dont even see them making the playoffs this year. Tony Romo will slump down to what he really is: an average QB.

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[quote=Mattyk72;327047]Shocker.

I'll never understand why so many in the media are always on the Cowboys jock. They haven't won more than 9 games in a season since 2003, yet every year the experts fall all over themselves trying to kiss their asses.[/quote]

I think it's ratings/sales. The perception, perhaps true, is that the country is filled to the brim with Cowboys fans, so they pander to them. I guess there is also a perception that the Redskins are hated by a lot of people so Cowterd and the others are also pandering to that element. They've made Snyder into what Irsay used to be.

The problem is that there is no depth or insight in any of it. There is really nothing that ESPN can tell me about the Redskins that will be news. I am empowered by sites like this to become my own clearinghouse of knowledge and they have been made obsolete. I think this is another reason they hate Snyder. They know that he knows that they are finished. And he is in the forefront of making that happen. You have fans doing their own highlight films. Who would have thought that was possible? Renaldo Wynn does an interview on a fansite. ESPN is never going to interview a backup DL.

But to your point, there is no reason to believe that the Cowboys will be any better than what they have been the last few years.