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Originally Posted by 4thGenRedskin21
Im in Redskins territory here in Va and I STILL have DirectTV so I dont miss any of our division rivals games either. I would shoot myself if I wasnt able to watch the redskins in preseason, because your preseason says alot on how you do during the regular season. remember in 06?? we lost alllll our preseason games I believe?? we were like "it's only preseason" but yea right, it was a precursor of what was to come. We went 5-11.
The preseason DESERVES attention.
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What would make you think that other than the one year you are speaking of?
For instance, the Patriots were 1-3 in 04, and went on to win the super bowl losing only 2 games all season.
I am going to sound like a broken record, but Spurrier's first season, we went 4-1 and scored the most points in the history of preseason, only to go 7-9 and ranked 25th out of 32 teams in offense.
A lot of us don't want to recall that season, but we had some horrendous games, week 2 losing to the eagles 37-7. Losing to the Saints, 43-27. Losing to the packers 30-9. Losing to the Jags 26-7.
Here is a list of recent preseason vs regular season stats.
2007 preseason, 2-2 (28th in points for)
2007 reg season, 9-7 (18th in points for)
2006 preseason, 0-4 (worst, 32nd in points for)
2006 reg season, 5-11 (19th points for)
2005 preseason, 1-3 (25th in points allowed)
2005 reg season, 10-6 (9th in points allowed)
2004 preseason, 3-2 (nothing notable, middle of pack in pf and pa)
2004 reg season, 6-10 (31st in PF, 5th in PA)
2003 preseason, 1-3 (29th in points)
2003 reg season, 5-11 (21st in points)
2002 preseason, 4-1 (set record for most points 164, and was 57 points better than the 2nd best team...dead last, 32nd in points allowed)
2002 reg season, 7-9 (25th in points, 22nd in points allowed)
2001 preseason, 1-3 (tied for worst in the NFL in points allowed)
2001 reg. season, 8-8 (13th in point allowed)
I also can't prove this cause I can't find preseason stats for our super bowl runs, but i am fairly certain we went winless in the preseason on one of our SB championships. Also, I am fairly certain the Cowboys went winless in the preseason and went on to win it all at least once.
So with the exception of 03, there is not a whole lot of similarity. In fact, those stats prove that preseason usually has little to no effect on the regular season.