Redskins Roundtable - Week One

Announcing another regular series

Starting this week Curly R will be running a series called Redskins Roundtable, a collaborative discussion with Dillweed from Post Game Heroes and Will Allensworth from Hogs Haven, each week we will be throwing a few questions out to one another and answering them on our sites, reader discussion is encouraged, let us know what you think.

Tonight is the season opener against the Giants, here are this week's questions with my answers. Dillweed's responses are here, Will's here:

1. What do you consider the Redskins' biggest strength going into the regular season?

It has got to be the defense, despite some changes in personnel, Phillip Daniels out and Jason Taylor in, and some injuries, safety LaRon Landry's hamstring, linebacker Marcus Washington's hip and cornerback Shawn Springs bruised calf, this unit has managed the proverbial continuity Joe Gibbs was hoping for at the end of his second term in Washington. They get started a little dinged with linebacker Rocky McIntosh and cornerback Carlos Rogers coming back from inury in addition to those mentioned above, this unit should get better as the season wears on.


2. What about the team makes you want to resort to alcohol abuse to help numb the pain?

The FUD factor, fear, uncertainty and disarray. Fear of weak offensive line play and nagging injuries, uncertainty in the strength of Jason Campbell's coming 2008 performance, disarray if the team gets off to a weak start or a large part of the team is simply not working right.


3. Which NFC East Beast team worries you the most? How do you think we will fare against our division foes?

The Eagles, always the Eagles, they are the Redskins principal division rival now, I expect the Redskins will split with the Giants and Cowboys, depending whether the Eagles progress back toward the team they have been for most of the past decade or regress toward the end of the Andy Reid slash Donovan McNabb era, remember how surprising it felt to beat them in game two last season in Philadelphia and how unsurprising it felt to lose to them in Washington seven game later? The Redskins are looking at best at 3-3 in the division, a more realistic assessment may be 2-4.


4. What will our regular season record be? How far do we make it into the post-season (if at all)?

My walk through the schedule has the Redskins somewhere between 4-12 and 10-6, depending on whether this team comes together and stays together, or not. If the Redskins finish 10-6 that should be good for a wild card playoff berth, maybe not, the NFC could be more competitive than the past two years, ie fewer 8-8 teams vying for playoff spots.


That's a roundtable wrap until next week, game two at home versus the Saints, with Mark Brunell and Jeremy Shockey.



Roundtable from here.