Redskins/Giants Opening Day Predictions

Dominant I don't know about but he was one if not the best avaiable but none of that was in the NFC East which has the best O lines in the league, still alot of questions about his health and fitness.

You would think that a Giants fan would have more respect for defensive line play.

17-13 Redskins. It'll be a defensive slugfest. Campbell will do well though.



Tampa 94 - Dallas 3 :woot:
Now thats the kind of math I'd like to see. Unfortunately Dallas will probably kill Tampa in that game but hey we can still dream right?

Whoa...weren't you the guy who picked AGAINST the Skins every week last season?

I was waiting to see the pessimist's prediction!

Yep, just waiting for reality to slap me in the face again. It's a shame because I have ocean front property on cloud 9 and I rarely get to use it. Hopefully I don't have to leave early again this year.

Mort just announced on twitter that he's predicting the Redskins beat the Giants on Sunday.

17-13 Redskins. It'll be a defensive slugfest. Campbell will do well though.


Now thats the kind of math I'd like to see. Unfortunately Dallas will probably kill Tampa in that game but hey we can still dream right?Eh. Tampa's got as much if not more roster talent than Dallas does. They've won 19 games in the last two seasons, the Cowboys have won only 22. The key is whether or not they've made enough progress this preseason (lots of roster turnover) to reach the level we already know the Cowboys are at.

I have no ability to predict that, so I'm just giving the benefit of the doubt to my homerism and picking against Dallas.

Mort just announced on twitter that he's predicting the Redskins beat the Giants on Sunday.

John Clayton is quietly predicting good things for our team and he's very high on Orakpo. Glad to hear that Mort thinks we can beat the Giants. I wouldn't mind for our team to be this year's cause of the annual fire Coughlin phase that NY fans go through :)

Redskins 17 - Giants 12

One of those ugly NFC East games where you wonder WTF they were doing all preseason.

NY Giants CB Terrell Thomas says he will start against Redskins - NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2009/09/ny_giants_cb_terrell_thomas_sa.html)

I'm revising my prediction to:

Redskins 35 - Giants 12

John Clayton is quietly predicting good things for our team and he's very high on Orakpo. Glad to hear that Mort thinks we can beat the Giants. I wouldn't mind for our team to be this year's cause of the annual fire Coughlin phase that NY fans go through :)A lot of the national media is trying to use past tendencies to pinhole the Redskins as a 6-8 win team. Specifically, they're drawing similarities between past failures and our actions this year where similarities do not exist.

There are cold, hard, statistics to support the fact that the Redskins might actually just be a 6-8 win team. But even those numbers don't support the notion that the Redskins CANNOT compete in this division with their current team. They simply suggest that the smart money would be on the Giants, and that the other three teams in the division have a 10-20% chance to win it each. Which is fine. Even the Patriots have about a 20% chance of finishing behind someone in the AFC East this year. The things that will actually determine who wins the division are largely out of our players' control anyway.

But the media is taking the above evidence, and presenting it in a way that suggets that there's no way the Redskins can outlast all three teams in the division. That's a limb and it's a completely unsupported limb.

At some point this year, maybe next Monday, maybe seven weeks down the road, it WILL look like the Redskins are the favorites in the NFC East. Same deal for the Eagles and the Giants. Perhaps the Cowboys as well. The reason the percentages come out the way they have is that for the Redskins to win the NFC East, things will need to keep going in their favor for the next three months. That's not likely, but it's certainly possible.

Long story short, there's no evidence that backs a prediction that the Redskins are a non-competitive team in the NFC East.

I'll just leave this here.

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:woot:

That's a great hit but Landry needs to be smarter than that. Taunting is a 15 yarder.

That's a great hit but Landry needs to be smarter than than. Taunting is a 15 yarder.

Not as bad as Plaxico's penalty. :)