2010 Washington Redskins Team Preview/Predictions
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2009 Record: 4-12
ATS: 6-8-2
The 2009 season could not have gone any worse for this once-proud franchise. For all the money that owner Daniel Snyder lavishes on his team, the Redskins organization has not drafted shrewdly or found the coach who can engineer a turnaround in the nation’s capital city.
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The 2009 campaign was dreary enough to get coach Jim Zorn fired and begin the search for a new sideline boss in D.C. A 4-12 record will do that.
The signs of impending doom were made plain in week three of the season, as the Redskins dropped a 19-14 decision in Detroit, enabling the woeful Lions to break a 19-game losing skid. Weirdly enough, Washington began the season 2-2, but the two wins came against abysmal opponents, St. Louis and Tampa Bay.
Over the final 12 games of 2009, Washington managed just two victories, as quarterback Jason Campbell and the rest of a beleaguered offense looked completely emasculated almost every time they took the field.[soliloquy id=”82219″]
What didn’t help was the fact that kicker Shaun Suisham missed game-winning or game-sealing field goals against Dallas and New Orleans. When the Redskins played good teams on relatively even terms, their placekicking failed them miserably. That’s how a 4-12 tally emerges on the ledger sheet.
In 2010, however, this organization might have begun to get things right.
First, Zorn’s replacement is a man with considerable NFL credentials. Mike Shanahan won two Super Bowls as the head coach of the Denver Broncos, and he was a consistent playoff coach until the final few years of his stay in the Mile High City.
Shanahan was also the offensive coordinator for the 1994 NFL champion San Francisco 49ers, one of the greatest point-scoring juggernauts in the history of pro football. Shanahan’s presence on the Redskins’ sideline will certainly give this team an elite gameday figure, a person who has proven he can handle the rigors of a very demanding profession.
The other big move for Washington is that it acquired quarterback Donovan McNabb from the Philadelphia Eagles. McNabb did not display great poise or consistency in Super Bowl XXXIX, the biggest game of his life, and in many ways, Philadelphia fans seemed to hold that failure against their meal-ticket quarterback. What gets lost in the obsession with Super Bowl titles is the fact that McNabb reached five NFC title games as the Eagles’ quarterback.
He is one of the more dependable performers in the sport, and moreover, he excelled as much as he did in Philadelphia without a dynamic breakaway running back, a top-shelf ball carrier who could take the heat off a passing game.
Bryan Westbrook was a great third-down back, but he wasn’t a terrific every-down force and he couldn’t stay healthy. What McNabb did in Philly was nothing short of sensational and now Mike Shanahan gets to coach him in D.C.
That’s a great turn of events for the Redskins, who gain in and of themselves while also seeing a division rival – the Eagles – suffer by comparison.
The Eagles’ decline means that Washington should escape the NFC East cellar. The Skins should be 8-8 or 9-7, enough to contend for the sixth and final seed in the NFC postseason derby.
Redskins 2010 Outlook
Washington will probably just miss the playoffs, but a 9-7 year would probably be an acceptable result for year one of the Shanahan-McNabb partnership. One will also need to see how the rest of the NFC pans out.
Redskins 2010 Futures
Super Bowl Odds: +2550
Conference Odds: +1015
NFC East Odds: +145
2010 Redskins Predictions
Place they’ll finish in NFC East: 3rd
Place they’ll finish in NFC Conference: 8th
Over/Under Season Wins Prediction: Over 7.5 Wins
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Dave Golokhov has written for BETUS Sportsbook, Sportsfanmagazine.com, FOX, Askmen.com, Sports-central.org, and the FOXSports.com Funhouse.
