With a completely irrelevant preseason game now under their belt, it seemed a perfectly “poke the bear” time to ask the question…
The Washington Redskins shocked a large portion of the NFL world in 2015, rattling off nine victories en route to winning the NFC East. They will look to build upon that performance during the 2016 campaign, and while the NFC East wonât be as easy to run away with, things at least look good on the improvement front.
Here are the important takeways from the Washington Redskins first preseason game of 2016 – a 23-17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
None.
Zero.
It’s preseason, get over it. You can’t draw any concrete conclusions. You think you can. You want to. It’s in your armchair nature to even need to.
But you can’t.
Because it’s just a worthless preseason game.
Having said that, here are some more concrete observations…
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