Everyone is an Idiot: A Season in Super Bowl Odds
The NFL is weird. You take a heaping steamer on the field and all of a sudden people stop believing in you. Who cares that the Redskins couldn't stop the Unemployed Man's Wes Welker and they are the least disciplined team in the NFL, someone's got to believe in them right? Wrong. Since the preseason, the Redskins' Brothers in Blowage have been the Panthers, Bengals, Seahawks, Bills, Cardinals and Dolphins. After "upsetting" the Saints in Week 1, the Skins' Super Bowl odds dropped to 40-1 and they were threatening to be an actual part of the divisional conversation Then came the Brainfart Heard 'Round the World and the Saints' piloted a defensive trainwreck against the Panthers, and it's evident that the Super Bowl odds market no longer believes in the Skins and a win over the Saints is no longer impressive, as the Saints have been discounted to 60-1. So entering Week 3 games, the Skins fell off pace of the Flat Pack of Carolina, Cincinnati, Seattle, Buffalo, and New Orleans, who all are sitting strong flailing at 60-1. The Skins and Cardinals now sit with the same odds at 70-1. Because we're dangerously close to having another lost season, Redskins fans may soon be in a position to need something other than the playoffs to root for, and we can get some good practice in this weekend by rooting for the Skins to beat the 60-1 Bengals to leapfrog them in the Super Bowl odds.
