Everyone is an Idiot: A Season in Super Bowl Odds
Well Week 3 certainly changed things for the suck. FedEx Field continued to be the worst place to watch an NFL game and the defense did a great impression of a jobber in the first match of WCW Saturday Night. Former members of 2012 Super Bowl Odds Detention Seattle and Arizona picked themselves up by the bootstraps and vaulted into the elite. The Cardinals now have the same odds to win the Super Bowl as the Steelers, Chargers, and Giants (!). It seems like just a week ago at the betting public believed in RG3 as must as KK4. Oh wait, it was. So here the Skins sit at roughly 100-1, absolutely on the outside looking in. The good news is that the Skins still aren't lumped in with the teams the betting public has completely written off like the Browns, Colts, Jags, and Dolphins, all in the 200-1 territory. Even this week's opponent the Bucs sit at worse odds than the Skins at 120-1. And despite hanging 38 points on the road, Cincy barely budged after winning in DC last week, as they dropped from 60-1 to 50-1, (though that's likely because of another strong Ravens performance). To me, these odds indicate the betting public considers the Skins unpredictable, but possibly capable of some magic because of a suddenly dynamic offense, which is probably exactly how we will feel about the season when we're watching teams that aren't the Redskins in the playoffs in January.
