Where are the Warpathers Who Predicted a 10-6 Record?

I thought 10-6 was a possibility, but I also thought realistically 8-8 or 9-7 were more likely. I really wasn't expecting double digit losses, that's for sure. If you look back on the season we had a handful of games that really could have gone our way to get us to 8-8, but as they say, shoulda, coulda, woulda...

I am one! The offense didn't progress like I thought and the inconsistency of the coaching caused WAY more problems than anything I ever imagined. I am still loyal and will always be loyal win or lose.

Smoot will leave because the front office are a bunch of friggin idiots when it comes to keeping the best players on the team (Stephen Davis, Champ Bailey to name a few). Gibbs will need to fine tune (blow up) his offense and come up with some new ideas. If Smoot leaves that will change the draft dramatically from offense to defensive back so we will just have to wait and see what happens.

Should be an interesting off season.....aren't they all???????

I thought 9-7 but figured that 1 game plus or minus was a possibility. 5-11 never entered my mind. I think if we were all told in August that we would have the #2 defense in the league we would have spent the last few months trying to get our hands on Super Bowl tickets...

I predicted 10-6 or possibly 11-5 before the season because I expected a much better level of play from the team in terms of eliminating the boneheadeed mistakes that had plagued the Redskins for about the past 4 years.

That didn't happen. AND, Mark Brunell was worse than anyone could have imagined.

I thought the same thing-we wouldn't beat ourselves and Brunell would have a bit of a revival here.

To respond to the rest of your email, I do not want this team dismantled. The only rant I fess up to is that I do want Coles replaced as the #1 WR and if I end up wrong on that i will admit it. I want few additions elsewhere except in the offensive line and defensive line. I would like the Skins to have Mike Williams, but if they can get a dominating lineman instead I will be happy as a pig in sh*t with that...

IMO perhaps the biggest need on the team is a new starting center, but they are generally drafted much lower than the top 10 of round #1. And I agree that if you gave Greg Williams a dominant pass rushing end the results could be devastating for the rest of the NFC East...

Looking back I don't think that I would have changed my preseason prediction of 9-6 or better. We are 5-9 now and could win this game. Even with a lose, I thought that we would beat the Brown, Bengals, Cowboys (one time), and Giants (both times). Brunnel cost us a few, but I saw the preseason and I really don't think that Ramsey was ready for Gibbs system early in the year. Unfortunatley, Brunnel wasn't ready for any system. OK, with the games that we did win, and the games I expected to win, we would be 9-6. Any upsets (Packers, Viks, Ravens) would put us at 10 or more wins.

One thing that would have helped us would have been to play some of the really tough games early in the year (Pittsburg, Philly) to give Gibbs a little trial by fire.

We were in every game this year and except for a couple of games, a couple of penalties or plays would have changed the outcome of the game and we would be going to the playoffs. Even with the season going badly, I think that I feel better about the Skins than I have in a while.

I believe I had the skins having atleast a 10-6 record, if not better, but I never thought in a million years that any professional qb with the production Mark Brunnel has had could play so terribly. Injuries and blown calls were out of the hands of the team but the pathetic playcalling and clock management was a problem all season long. I don't think it's as ludicrious(Sp?) as some people are making it seem to try and upgrade at a couple positions on the offense if it's possible because the offense was our obvious achilles heel. Whether it be a more modern offensive cordinator or a playmaking wr or an upgrade or 2 on the o-line or not handing the starting qb job to a player that hasn't truly shown that he is deserving of a 100% gurantee of said job next season, something needs to be done to the offense and hoping that another year with the same players under the same system will make it all better is highly unlikely. I also remember I was one of the few people before the beginning of the season who said Greg Williams could take the players we have on defense and make it a pretty darn good one, and he did it without any super stud d-lineman(although if griffin plays like this next year, he'll move into that category) and 2 of our best linebackers. I love Smoot and hope that he stays, but from the rumors about what he's asking for, nobody can be making it seem like Gibbs and Snyder are the only ones who might be a little less than comprimising.
Sure some people are taking their fantasy fix up job of the team to a bit of an extreme but all of us just want the team to be better practically by any way possible.

I was one who thought we'd be better than 10-6. Why, are you handing out demerits?

Yes, I'm one of those fans who thought we would go 10-6. But I'm not criticizing now. I'm not nearly smart enough to say what should be done to fix things. I only know that I'm sick about how our season progressed (or rather DIDN'T progress) and, once again, I'm looking forward to next year. It seems like I've been doing that for a lot of years now. But in my humble opinion, I think Gibbs needed a year to get comfortable with all of the changes. I do think he will be able to learn and adapt and that we will be much improved next year. I've been a loyal Redskins fan for about 50 years, and I'll stick with them, win or lose.

You and I are in complete agreement. That's exatly why I don't want wholesale changes to our roster.

To respond to the rest of your email, I do not want this team dismantled. The only rant I fess up to is that I do want Coles replaced as the #1 WR and if I end up wrong on that i will admit it. I want few additions elsewhere except in the offensive line and defensive line. I would like the Skins to have Mike Williams, but if they can get a dominating lineman instead I will be happy as a pig in sh*t with that...

IMO perhaps the biggest need on the team is a new starting center, but they are generally drafted much lower than the top 10 of round #1. And I agree that if you gave Greg Williams a dominant pass rushing end the results could be devastating for the rest of the NFC East...

I definately agree with you about the new center. Fair enough re: Coles. I can understand why people want help at WR, I just strongly disagree with that.