Not Foreskin, Redskin…

The Skins come into the season with a creaky-kneed Mark Brunell as the starting QB…Portis is fighting a shoulder injury…Lavar has taken his ball and gone to NYC…

Brunell had a good year last year with only 10 TD’s to go along with 23 TD’s…he had over 3,000 yards passing…the problem is that he is certainly not getting any younger and there is another grind of the NFL season on those creaky knees…the really bad news for the Skins is that Todd Collins or Jason Campbell are the backups…Collins is completely inadequate…Campbell is unproven and has not impressed since being drafted in the first round…

The RB’s have nice depth with the addition of T.J. Duckett…Portis is a stud when healthy and Duckett has proven to be a nice complement…Betts isn’t too shabby either…

The WR’s are a strength for this team…Santana Moss, El, Lloyd, Patten...tough to name another team with such depth…mind you I am not a huge El fan and I think they overpaid for him…$31 million for a guy who has never caught 50 balls seems a stretch…but he is a good second guy and very good third guy…throw in Chris Cooley and Brunell has a lot of weapons around him…

The Skins D ranked in the top half of virtually every defensive category…Lavar has joined the rival Giants, but considering he was the most talented player in the league to be benched last year…oops…I forgot about T. O…but you catch my drift…he didn’t add much…the interesting switch on D is that Ryan Clark has left to join the Defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers and was replaced by Adam Archuleta…Adam is a much better run supporter than Clark, but nearly as good in coverage…we shall wait and see how this affects them…

The Skins made the playoffs last year with an 11 – 5 record…I just have this funny feeling that this is going to be a down year…I can’t Brunell making it through another year without injuries…plus, they play in a tough division and then have to play the NFC South which might be the toughest division…”The Man” has their total wins at 9 for the season…I think this is high, but too close to call…here is how I have their schedule breaking…I think they get swept by the G-men and Boys and splitting with Philly in the division…that gives them a division record of 1 – 5…their other home games include MN, Jax, TN, Carloina and Atlanta…they should be able to get 4 wins here with their only loss against Carolina…on the road they face Houston, Indi, TB, NO, and St. Louis…2 wins is likely and a third is not out of the question…but I am going to say they lose to Indi, Bucs, and Rams…that puts their record at 7 – 9…if Brunell can repeat his season from a year ago, then this could be reversed, but I would be shocked if we see and Skin in the post season…