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Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21
I think I'm kinda in the middle on this one. The one fatal flaw in the argument that we all know now who our starters will be, therefore it's not too early to make predictions, is that we don't know the other 13 teams we play this year as well. We have to remember that there are two teams to every game. So while we may "know" who our QB, WR, RB, etc, etc, are going to be, who here knows that same information about the Raiders, Cheifs, Bears, etc, etc.?
Now, the reason I'm in the middle is because I don't mind US throwing around predictions and looking to the schedule to guess our wins and losses. After all, what else do we have to do right now? But sports writers making predictions seems a bit rediculous this early. The main reason: it would take entirely too much effort for any writer to do an adequate amount of research into each and every team to make a valid prediction. Why? Because they would have to know every team in the NFL as well as we know the Redskins situation, sit down and disect each and every game from every week, match strengths against strenths and weaknesses against weaknesses and try to make predictions based on each individual matchup. It's not enough to look at a team's roster and say "you know, I don't think they look much better than last year, and last year they were 5-11, so I'm going with 5-11 again." Rather, a responsible sports writer would have to disect the status of each team, recognize the question marks remaining between now and the June 1st cuts, and then predict each game in the entire NFL schedule to come up with a final record. Until I see any expert's rundown of exactly which games they see us losing and which they see us winning and why, I don't put any stock in their predictions. Those are the types of things we see on this site when we talk about the skins, but I don't see such a thorough analysis from any so-called "experts" when they thow out "5-11". Furthermore, another reason any predictions are useless right now is that the real potential for injuries hasn't even started. If Peyton Manning tears an ACL in a preseason game, then anybody's May predictions are crap. Not only would it effect the record prediction for the Colts, but it would also effect the prediction for any team that plays the Colts.
Again, I don't mind us throwing stuff around because that's what these sites are for, but sports writers and "experts"? Come on, there are just WAY too many variables between now and the start of the season to even bother. It's like the mock drafts that come out the day after the super bowl when all the picks are set and then subsequently change 150 times before draft day.
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