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

They won the Super Bowl. What else do you need to know? - Jeff ChadihaI don't know, how about a quirky fact about the team? Don't waste my time.

Funny, the last offseason power rankings the Skins were 19, how do you drop without even playing a game? One more reason why these things are retarded.

Let's start by saying that every one of the 12 teams that the ESPN conglomerate has ranked behind us should be ranked behind us, possible exception of Jacksonville depending on whose OL you like better.

The Texans are a prospectively good team, just like the Redskins are. Based on the past history, we should be ranked above them. If you are going to make the argument that, "they should make the playoffs this year", well, then good luck telling the Redskins that they aren't better than Atlanta, Minnesota, or Arizona.

Needless to say, the Cowboys are still living off their 2007 season. If you take out the Redskins 2007 season, we haven't made the playoffs since 2005, but you'd still rank the Redskins ahead of the Cowboys based on disappointing by the Cowboys seasons in 2006 and 2008. I don't know if it's necessarily wrong that they are boosting the Cowboys based on having a 13 win season in recent memory, but it's certainly not showing up in the voting for teams like Jacksonville, San Diego, Green Bay and even New England. So lets not act like they're being objective with the Cowboys because based on last season, they wouldn't be a top 20 team.

Preseason power rankings = a waste of time.

Every year we are in the low 20's so it means nothing!! If Seattle has a better record than us this yr we deserve to be 20. Let's see what they say after wk 1 when we "Upset" the Giants in NY.

......what is this upset you talk about,I don't understand?:silly:

oh come on guys, such rankings don't mean anything! neva loose hope! you know you are the best!

It seems like a lot of people are getting way too upset about the most subjective rating system ever. Who cares what the power rankings say? Especially now?

20th seems about right to me. The Skins are definitely a bottom 50% team but they are at the top end of the bottom.

20th is a tad low, but it's a pre training camp poll so who cares. Now after we whup the Giants in week one (I am gonna go on record now a 28-10 -including a DHall pick, a DT TD, and some other goodies too) we better be ranked much higher.

20th is about right IMO. I don't think we could be much higher than 15 at this point. Mark Shlereth said 8-8 at the beginning of last year because there were "too many questions." I think it's the same this year. RT & QB play, + JZ's progression as a head coach are some of the variables that at present are largely unknown.

I love JC & think he'll have a good year, but I can't blame the talking heads for playing it safe & predicting another middle of the pack season.