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Nickb23 - Holland has arrived! said 02/14, 12:18 PM
What is the first step necessary to being a Super Bowl team?

Making the playoffs, right?

Look at the Arizona Cardinals, easy division got hot at the right time, made the Super Bowl.

Then you have the Patriots, tough division, bet the crap out of Arizona but miss the playoffs.

I bring this up because the Redskins are very unlikely to even sniff the playoffs. Every team in the division has 14-1 odds or better. Every team ahead of them is still improving also.

My pick is in a division with only one team with better odds than them and they are 30-1. My pick has 50-1 odds but is only a few seasons removed from a Super Bowl trip with the QB they have right now.

The Seattle Seahawks.

They went through receivers and QB's like Porkins does cheeseburgers. One after another went down.

They have a new coach, great draft position and a wealth of guys hungry to get back to the top of that division. Obviously you can not predict injuries and a healthy Seattle team with some good young draft picks can definitely be back on top of that division. Anquan wants out of Arizona, which may lead to the departure of Kurt as well.

Once the playoffs start, all bets are off......

Nickb23 - Holland has arrived! said 02/14, 12:52 PM
"Their best Lineman Robbie Tobeck was injured and inconsistent for all of the last year"

I would like to introduce you to 9 time pro bowler (including 8 in a row) Walter Jones, left tackle for the Seahawks. But beside that you continue to prove my point, injuries can ruin a season for a football team. As it did for Tobeck, Jones and Many, many other Seahawks.

"Even before he hurt his back he was playing inconsistent"

I would like to introduce you to Michael Bumpus, Courtney Taylor, Billy McMullen and Logan Payne. No seriously do you know who they are cause Matt Hasselbeck didn't either? Those are UNDRAFTED wideouts he was throwing passes to.

Enter Michael Crabtree on Draft day and a healthy Branch, Burleson and Engram along with rookie phenom John Carlson and Hasselbeck returns to form.

"The seahawks allowed 35 sacks last year"

Considering injuries that isn't bad, 12 teams allowed more including your Redskins pick and the 49ers allowed 20 more sacks than them.

Hasselbeck had a bad season with no help but as I stated below righting off a QB too early has proven to be a mistake many wish they didn't make. ie. Warner, Collins, Pennington and soon Hasselbeck...

Nickb23 - Holland has arrived! said 02/14, 01:15 PM
2-6

What is that, you ask?

The final record of both of these football teams over the last 8 weeks af the season.

When exactly did the Redskins get better? During the Pro Bowl, Playoffs? When I ask you?

They didn't, that is the answer. The Seahawks had injuries, what is the Redskins excuse?

"If you break down the film you will see that many of the sacks were Campbell's fault. (He held onto the ball way to long) Now that he is more familiar with the west coast offense and his reads."

That's funny!

In the first 8 games he was sacked 16 times. In the last 8 he was sacked 22 times. Your right he got better at holding on to the ball too long, not checking down to his reads.

The Seahawks don't have to have a better RB than the Skins, they play in an easier division and have a much more proven veteran QB who has been to a Super Bowl before.

The Redskins closed out 2-6 with all of the key players on their football team still healthy, so NO they do not have the talent to make the playoffs much less a Super Bowl.

The Seahawks have a valid and fixable excuse for a bad season, the Redskins do NOT.....