In the last post, I listed a few reasons to be hopeful about next season. The flip side is that there are plenty of reasons to keep expectations tempered.
1) RG3's injury: He will probably not play until until October, and even then it might not be 100%. Could be tough sledding early on without him.
2) Defensive adjustments to the Pistol: Defensive coordinators have seen the read-option and the Pistol spread like mad this season. They have a whole summer to game-plan for RG3, Cam Newton, Kaepernick, and Russell Wilson. They now have a whole season's worth of game footage to pull together the defensive answers. The Redskins offense, left unchanged, won't be novel anymore and will struggle much more.
3) Cap penalty: The salary cap hit could mean free agents like Fred Davis won't be back and that it will be hard to sign needed starters in the secondary.
4) Schedule: This year, the Skins played a last-place schedule and next year they will play a first-place schedule, including San Francisco, Atlanta, Minnesota, Green Bay and Denver.
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