Redskins News & Notes Chapter 6

[CultBrennan59]

So I stopped off at the grocery store today after work to pick up a couple of the NFL Season Preview magazines. I decided to get two (Lindys and Sporting News) and was going to get Pro Football Weekly's (which is out of business, yet had the magazine out so this might be their last one) magazine. I went to skim through it and saw that they had the Redskins finishing 3rd in the division. I immediately put it down saying to myself "now I know why you all went out of business," and bought the other two.

I just started reading through the other two. Lindys has us finishing 2nd (which is respectable/more understandable) saying that basically they didn't pick us first because they thought we had too much what ifs regarding RG3s health. And who did they have finishing 1st? The frickin' cowboys who just got a new defense, got beat by us twice last year, and have Romo as their QB.

Then I looked through the Sporting News Magazine. Sporting News has us finishing 4th in the NFC East, and has us as the 23rd best team in the NFL. Their reasoning is something along the lines of "theres a lot of change in the NFCE and new champions from year to year with some years the winner finishes last, and with RG3s injury it doesn't make our case better."

Now sure some of these magazines were made almost a month ago, but still it was almost 2 months ago that RG3 was already being talked about being ready for the first game of the season.

A few other things to mention about the magazines:

- Sporting News gave our draft a D, and failed to even mention Rambo, or Reeds names.

- Both magazines said very good things about our DL; I, along with others here last year, didn't think they were that great, just OK/Solid.

- To go on about this now even more meaningless magazines, Sporting News had the Giants winning the NFCE (1), Lindy's had them finishing dead last (4)..

- A "scout from another team" said that RG3 isn't "a progression-type QB...when he's in the gun, when he has to read defenses, he has a long ways to go."

- both magazines have the Broncos reaching the super bowl

- EJ Biggers is rated by Lindy's as the 5th best NB in the NFL (they do a position by position ranking, ie No. 1 CB's, No. 2 CB's, NBs)