Mid Season Report: NFL

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Originally Posted by Chico23231

agree with Trestman in the discussion. Rex Ryan in there as well.

I dont think you put the Skins as biggest disappointment based on the fact RG3 injury and missing preseason. Just cant imo. Atlanta, Texans or Baltimore seem like the top tier disappointments.

No surprises with Saints or Indy for me.

I worry about KC playing a game away from home in the playoffs.

It's a year with a lot of disappointments, but if the pre-season expectation is that you will defend your division title (a preseason poll here had '8 or fewer' wins as an actual option), you cannot be a bad team. And the Redskins have been a bad team.

Atlanta isn't a good team, but they also didn't have the upside that Washington did going into the year, nor have they played spectacularly bad football. They're a garden variety disappointment. Baltimore is disappointing if you considered them a super bowl favorite, but right from opening day it was pretty clear they were not that. They've also been worse than reasonable expectation, but the Redskins have been the single biggest disappointment in football.

The surprise with New Orleans and Indy wasn't that they came out of nowhere (like Kansas City), rather that they were known mediocre commodities who made defensive jumps in 2013 that they could have made at any other time, but never did. And I'm not sure how to identify that in a preseason prediction. If you had asked me to go with the worst two defenses in football before the season, I might have said the Saints and the Colts (or Chargers).

Actually, the Chargers have been a surprise too, but they don't have a ton of wins to show for it.

I may have forgotten the Titans. I thought that team would be terrible. They're...okay.