FoxSports: Ranking the NFL: Insider grading on every franchise

[Daseal]

People get too high and low based on the opinions of other people. I happen to be an Adam Schein fan, I remember last season he told VC to his face he didn't see the Redskins making the playoffs or winning more than 6 games that year. Turns out he was pretty damn close to correct, but early on in the season he said he was flat out wrong.

Listen, they're predictions. If anyone was really, really good at them, they'd be in Vegas, not working for a magazine or sitting on a message board. During the offseason most everything is based off the previous season. People like to read that type of stuff, where does my team rank! Then they read it and if they're not high enough, cry about how we don't get respect. Something I truly don't understand as a Redskins fan -- what the hell have we done over the past 10 years to deserve any respect in the offseason.

All I want is for this team to go out on the field, win games, and go to the playoffs on a regular basis. Then we can complain about not getting respect or being ranked low. Until the Redskins prove the critics wrong, I can't fault the critics for questioning us.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Daseal

People get too high and low based on the opinions of other people. I happen to be an Adam Schein fan, I remember last season he told VC to his face he didn't see the Redskins making the playoffs or winning more than 6 games that year. Turns out he was pretty damn close to correct, but early on in the season he said he was flat out wrong.

This is not a prediction that can be "close to correct." It's a hard range. Once the team wins it's 7th game, the prediction becomes 100% incorrect.

But the point is the article is based on a retarded premise, and was a complete waste of time, not that he was wrong, necessarily. Smart people will make incorrect predictions all the time. A smart person would not have even attempted to publish something like this. Just turn it into a subjective list. That's all it is anyway.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Daseal

People get too high and low based on the opinions of other people. I happen to be an Adam Schein fan, I remember last season he told VC to his face he didn't see the Redskins making the playoffs or winning more than 6 games that year. Turns out he was pretty damn close to correct, but early on in the season he said he was flat out wrong.

Listen, they're predictions. If anyone was really, really good at them, they'd be in Vegas, not working for a magazine or sitting on a message board. During the offseason most everything is based off the previous season. People like to read that type of stuff, where does my team rank! Then they read it and if they're not high enough, cry about how we don't get respect. Something I truly don't understand as a Redskins fan -- what the hell have we done over the past 10 years to deserve any respect in the offseason.

All I want is for this team to go out on the field, win games, and go to the playoffs on a regular basis. Then we can complain about not getting respect or being ranked low. Until the Redskins prove the critics wrong, I can't fault the critics for questioning us.

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