Redskins Schedule Analysis

The Washington Redskins schedule was released moments ago, and if you don't know it, here it is:
(that is, if we have an NFL season). White = Predicted Loss; Green = Predicted Win

Week 1: vs. Giants (4:00 PM)
Week 2: vs. Cards (1:00 PM)
Week 3: MNF @ Cowboys
Week 4: @ Rams (1:00 PM) 
Week 5: Bye
Week 6: vs. Eagles (1:00 PM)

Week 7: @ Panthers (1:00 PM)
Week 8: @ Bills (4:00 PM) -- In Toronto!
Week 9: vs. 49ers (1:00 PM) 
Week 10: @ Dolphins (1:00 PM)
Week 11: vs. Cowboys (1:00 PM)
Week 12: @ Seahawks (4:00 PM)

Week 13: vs. Jets (1:00 PM) 

Week 14: vs. Pats (1:00 PM)

Week 15: @ Giants (1:00 PM)
Week 16: vs. Vikings (1:00 PM)
Week 17: @ Eagles (1:00 PM)

Here's my analysis:

• We have an early, EARLY bye week (week 5), and the meat of the schedule (Cowboys/Seahawks/Jets/Pats/Vikings/Eagles) is not until the end of the season
• The supposed easy part of the schedule is in the middle, where we face the Panthers/Bills/49ers in consecutive weeks
• There are A LOT of 1:00 games this year - 12 of the 16 games are the early afternoon version
• We, the Redskins, need to be up and running as the season starts, as we face two NFC East foes to start the season - including @ the Cowboys on Monday Night Football
• We have to face the Jets and the Pats in CONSECUTIVE WEEKS, and BOTH in December? Talk about a double-whammy there! (the one good thing is that both games are at home...)
• Prior to those games, we are at Quest Field and face the noisy - and I mean the REALLY NOISY - twelfth man
• If McNabb is somehow traded to the Vikings, we don't face them until the penultimate game of the regular season - on Christmas Eve. Hopefully, McNabb will be McSanta Claus and give the Redskins faithful a gift that day!
• We have to face the pesky Rams again - the last three times we faced them, we got BLITZED by Bradford (last year) and then we had the Pete Kendall incident (2008) that is still branded into my brain to this very day
• Luckily, the guy who returned the fumble for a 75-yard TD is on our team now (Oshiomogho Atogwe) 
• We have the 29th hardest schedule - which means easy, but not when we hit the winter season!
• Last time we beat the Pats at home was the loss that sparked their 21-game winning streak

I am predicting an 5-11 season... with some losses coming against the terrible teams (happens to the 'Skins every friggin' year) and some surprise wins - even though we have the sixth-easiest schedule in the league. We have too many holes offensively (RB/WR/OL/QB - basically, our entire offense outside of TE) and we had one of the worst defenses in the League last year. We might blow another top-10 pick come next April.