Sigh! Everybody is making a big deal of Rex Grossman’s statement that the Washington Redskins will win the NFC East this season. Because he’s a quarterback, Grossman’s words got more play than T Jammal Brown’s pronouncement that the ‘Skins wouldn’t be satisfied with 12 wins this season.
We’ve already said why elite performers make these kinds of statements…that whole attitudes and altitudes thing. Besides, Redskins players have said something like this before the start of every season, except 2007 and 2009.
It is not important whether we believe what Grossman says. It’s important that he believes what he says. Keep talking, Rex. Perform so we look past that whole Wrecks Grossman thing.
The pendulum swings wide with the Redskins. Last year, John Clayton and the national media called the Redskins division favorites, thanks to the addition of a big name coach and quarterback. Now, with Donovan McNabb banished and Mike Shanahan silenced, the same guys rank the Redskins among the worst in the league. The power poll at NFL.com ranked them dead last.
I expect more of football people.
Did the Redskins have the 10th pick in the 2011 Draft? Does that not mean that nine teams finished worse than they did?
Did not the Redskins parlay four Draft picks into 12 selections, and then draft the kind of building-block players fans have clamored for throughout the Snyder era?
Didn’t NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks grade the Redskins Draft a “B?” The team didn’t get worse in April.
Isn’t Albert Haynesworth gone?
Isn’t it possible that Grossman can be as serviceable in the Shanahan offense as Todd Collins was in the Al Saunders offense (100.1 QB rating) before Snyderrato screwed the pooch and fired Saunders thus removing Collins’ value? Hasn’t Grossman thrown 400 more passes than Collins in a shorter career and appeared in more Super Bowls than Tony Romo and Michael Vick combined?
Didn’t the Ravens win a Super Bowl with Tony Banks and Trent freakin’ Dilfer at quarterback?
Oops! This has slipped into a rant and that is not allowed at Redskins Hog Heaven. But these thoughts about the Redskins and their 2011 prospects are nothing but superficial thinking. Pure vapor.
We Hog Heaven writers have not done our official season prediction yet. We think it logical to see three preseason games, at least, before doing so. As an early guess, I expect the team to vie with the Dallas cowboys for third or fourth in the division and finish in the top-20 in regular season power polls. Even that is pure vapor.
The Washington Redskins signed four-year veteran QB Matt Gutierrez and waived UDFA QB Marc Verica (Virginia).
Point after: Um yeah, writing this made me think of that “leave Britney alone” video. Please don’t make that guy cry again.
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