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Originally Posted by Lotus
And this year Florio predicts us to go to the Super Bowl, yet the vast majority of prognosticators predict much worse for us. The Sporting News had us at 4-12.
The fact is that, overall, we are pretty much under the radar of most people right now. There are exceptions in terms of prognostication, as always, but exceptions do not prove the rule.
And in 1991, it was not too much different. Some people predicted us to be quite good, but most people were talking about other teams in terms of Super Bowl championships.
As I mentioned before, Rypien was interviewed about how the Skins were "flying under the radar." Who was the interviewer? Collinsworth. So Collinsworth may have predicted us to be champs but, at the time, he also recognized that his voice was in the minority.
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"Flying under the radar" isn't the same as "
no one was talking about us."
Let's not forget the state of our franchise throughout the eighties. We were a consistent, tough contender; and it wasn't often that we were totally out of it. We'd been knocking on the door in the late 80's, and expectations in that era were that we'd be in the mix.
So let's not make it look like we were "getting no respect", or "nobody gave us a chance," or that "everybody was ignoring us" because it just wasn't the case.