ESPN 2009 Power Rankings (Training Camp) - Skins = 20th

[Daseal]

People love to get worked up about these, but can you honestly say we proved that we deserve any better than 20th? These are based on last year.

I'm not a big fan of how ESPN reported the Big Ben incident, or rather didn't. Not sure what that was about.

[Hail to the Redskins]

Well not all rankings are based on last year...

They have the 8-8 Chargers 6th, 6-10 Packers 17th, the 4-12 Seahawks ranked 18th & they even admit IN THE RANKING, that the Vikings are in the top-10 based on the POSSIBILITY of getting Favre... hilarious stuff.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Daseal

People love to get worked up about these, but can you honestly say we proved that we deserve any better than 20th? These are based on last year.

I'm not a big fan of how ESPN reported the Big Ben incident, or rather didn't. Not sure what that was about.

The power rankings are a big mess because there are too many people contributing to it. Granted, it's much fewer than in the past but it'd be much simpler if it was just one person's power ranking. I'd probably but us in the 11-20 range. I think we're better than teams like the Bears, Seahawks, Saints, but I also think that because we're in a tougher division we'll finish lower than them in the power rankings. We're, in my mind, a Wild Card team (that will coast through the playoffs and onto the Super Bowl) in the toughest division in the NFL. While some of these other teams are probably division winners.

There are certain policies that have been in place for nearly 20 years about how civil cases are reported. That's the best answer I can give you to Big Ben