Power Rankings: ESPN

[Mc2guy]

The skins are a 10-6 team (last year) coming of a loss in the playoffs round of 8. Based strictly of this I say 10th is about where the pundits should have placed us at year's end last season. Even the decent writers aren't going to go out on a limb and bump the skins up until the season starts and we show that we have improved as much as our acquisitions would suggest.

Basically it seems that the media is afraid to heap to much praise on us because of the 2000 season. Snyder's spending and the team's sub-par performance that year tagged us with an "off-season champion" rep. Fair or not, we need to break that mold before they start riding the skins jocks like they do New England.

While I agree that we have upgraded all of our units and our coaching staff, we haven't played any games yet, and I don't expect to get that "top 5" respect from the media until we deliver a slobberknocker to MN in week one. Then, look out, the bandwagon's gonna need a trailer to hold all the journalists jumping on for a ride.