HateOffSeason Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2007&week=1 19 (28)Redskins5-11-0Will RBs Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts each rush for 1,000 yards this season? As coach Joe Gibbs says, who knows? But you can bet they'll get every opportunity. While most of ESPN can't seem to say anything nice about the Redskins, it looks like they are starting to hedge their bets going into the season. 9 spot jump after pre-season isn't too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKM311 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 While its great for fans to see this, it really does not matter. Pre-season rankings are as accurate as weather men/women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 If they've watched the 'Skins at all this preseason, their comment with the 19 ranking is puzzling. The defense has been outstanding, but we've been unable to run the ball. :whoknows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmeriplanDentalMan Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Funny how a division that is suppose to be so weak, the WEAKEST division in some peoples minds.....placed TWO teams in the top 8. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angel2 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 While its great for fans to see this, it really does not matter.Pre-season rankings are as accurate as weather men/women. Or, at least the "Experts". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santana_4_prez Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 They probably just lazily glanced at our 2-1 record, and compared that to how poorly we looked in the preseason last year (0-4), and jumped to the conclusion that we are better now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeTK Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 may be irrelevant.... but its still good to see us jump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T.21 will eat you alive Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 If they've watched the 'Skins at all this preseason, their comment with the 19 ranking is puzzling. The defense has been outstanding, but we've been unable to run the ball. :whoknows: No one cares if your defense is extra ordinary unless your offense can put up some points. Its just as simple as that. BTW, surprised to see that we are the last in the league in the preseason for the number of sacks, ONLY 1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helptheSKINS Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 LOL, I preferred the #28 ranking. Better to be a suprise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexxskins Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 If they've watched the 'Skins at all this preseason, their comment with the 19 ranking is puzzling. The defense has been outstanding, but we've been unable to run the ball. :whoknows:I took it as though they were saying the only thing that we really need is the running game. :2cents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 No one cares if your defense is extra ordinary unless your offense can put up some points. Its just as simple as that. BTW, surprised to see that we are the last in the league in the preseason for the number of sacks, ONLY 1! I was commenting on how they bumped us up from 28 to 19, and cited how well we will run the ball this season, yet we haven't run for squat in the preseason. If they bumped us up and said the Redskins defense is looking amazing, that would have made sense. But it's like they're not even paying attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouvan59 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Funny how a division that is suppose to be so weak, the WEAKEST division in some peoples minds.....placed TWO teams in the top 8.Amazing. Who the heck is saying the NFC East is supposed to be weak? I haven't seen that anywhere. Almost every ranking you've seen they have the Eagles and Cowboys ranked highly and the Skins and Giants towards the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnhay Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 New Orleans started out ranked 29th last year and I think they ended up at 5. I guess no one noticed that the Giants, Eagles and Cowboys are all ranked above us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I'm surprised, given how our offense has looked, that we would be at 19. Hopefully portis and ladell can turn on the switch and the o-line returns to last years form. Regardless, the giants should still be below 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregpeck99 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 The ranking is just about right going in. The Skins defense is not as good as it looked in pre-season (no pass rush) and the offense is not as bad as it looked. Baseed upon this relative ranking ... Skins could go anywhere from 6-10 to 9-7. My guess at this point: 7-9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I guess this is how people pick us to have a losing record this season. If we went strictly by this and won every game over a team lower than us on the list, and lost every game to teams higher than us on the list then we'd end up 7-9. vs Dolphins - W @ Eagles - L vs Giants - L vs Lions - W @ Packers - W vs Cardinals - W @ Patriots - L @ Jets - L vs Eagles - L @ Cowboys - L @ Buccaneers - W vs Bills - W vs Bears - L @ Giants - L @ Vikings - W vs Cowboys - L Somehow I don't think we'll go 0-6 in the division, however. That's why they play the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Power Rankings, Shmower Rankings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 While its great for fans to see this, it really does not matter.Pre-season rankings are as accurate as weather men/women. So that must mean they are pretty accurate then? Considering weather men/women forecasts are about 80% correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[[ghost]] Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Thats a HUGE jump. That doesn't mean we've impressed ESPN, its just that ESPN has been trying to hate on us for a very long time, and now have to come around. I'm probably wrong, but I'd like to believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrellGreenFan Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 If you thought for a moment that these rankings have any credibility whatsoever, check out the following link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2006&week=1 It's the Week 1 rankings for last year. And look how accurate they were- Seahawks as the best team in the NFL? Carolina ranked #2 Saints ranked 29th? San Diego at 16? Baltimore at 18? These power rankings have about no value whatsoever. On this topic- here's a question- when is the last time one of these so called sports "experts" predicted a suprise team ever? Either in terms of a team which most people expected to do poorly being very good, or in terms of a team expected by most people to do well doing very badly? I can't think of any time they've caught something the general public hasn't. I really think the so called sports "experts" at ESPN are really useless as people. For all the money they are paid to bloviate about sports, I am not convinced they can analyze sports better than the average fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Amazing what 3 weeks of meaningless games can do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 why are the skins 19 with a 5-11 record and the Phins are 20 with 6-10 season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Not a surprise, anybody could have come to that conclusion after watching pre-season. If our offense is at least mediocre(which it was last season, and is at least so far this season), and our defense isnt playing as super-horribly as they were last season, then at the very least we should be considered a mediocre team. Kind of hard not to move us up in rankings when our defense wasnt sucking. To be in the bottom 5 in the NFL you have to be really bad at something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 So that must mean they are pretty accurate then? Considering weather men/women forecasts are about 80% correct. Thats a statistic made up by weather forecasters. I happen to know where I live, at least half of the time they predicted rain over the summer it didnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcarey032 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 How is it the weakest division in football? Last year we sent three teams to the playoffs. Granted, the team that didn't make it was us, but that doesn't speak to the strength of the division. The weakest division in football in my opinion is the NFC west or the NFC north. The bears might be coming out of the north, but look at the teams that follow the north leader. They are all terrible. In all the NFC East is probably the strongest division in the NFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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