No love for Ol' DC

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Originally Posted by Daseal

Gil Brandt, who I really respect a lot, but some really gruesome statistics on preseason out there. He said while the score and outcome don't matter, the way you play the game really does. Execution is key, having some sort of momentum moving into the system is also really nice. Players know it's preseason, but they still start questioning.

The Super Bowl champs over the last 13ish seasons are 39-13 in the preseason. It was about a week or week and a half ago, don't remember everything. While preseason "means" nothing, you should never overlook just complete lack of production like the Redskins saw. I'm sorry, we were Vanilla, but so was everyone else. They had no problems scoring. Simple throws, etc.

Hopefully our offense can turn it on with a switch, but I doubt it. This division top to bottom will be seperated by no more than 3 games. If you told me the Redskins won it at 10-6 or 11-5 (doubt any team in our div goes 11-5) or lost it at 8-8 or 7-9. I wouldn't be the least bit suprised either way.

Daseal, my sentiments exactly. You and I are apparently the only ones on this board who feel that way. Everybody points to the 0-4 record in 1982 -- I doubt those Redskins looked as woefully inept as the '06 exhibition Skins looked.

Sometimes, we had people excusing their performance because of simple, vanilla schemes, while at the same time chalking the lack of productivity to a complex, 700-page playbook. Which is it folks?

I hope we light it up Monday night for 38 points as much as anyone here. I just don't think that's realistic. We'll beat the Vikings, I'm pretty sure of that. But it likely won't be a pretty win -- I'm thinking lots of field goals, maybe a defensive touchdown, but maddening three-and-outs, and some sloppy special teams kick coverage.

For me, the key this year was to stay healthy. Shawn Springs, Clinton Portis, Cornelius Griffin, and Philip Daniels -- all very key players -- were injured before the third preseason game.

I'll be ecstatic with an 11-5 record, but not surprised at all if we're 8-8 by season's end.