Are the Redskins a Mess?

You ever had a suspicious girlfriend? Where if you dont respond to her question immediately turns her fear into fact and conducts a whole conversation with herself based on a false premise? That's kind of like what media reporting in the off-season amounts to. There may not be any information, there may not be any answers, but the media still have to produce copy. 

What we do know right now, as of March 7, is that the Redskins have the essentials in place for the coming year. They have a solid, established, well above average QB, and they have a solid, established coach. Both are on the rise, in terms of their learning curve. As an objective matter, good things are likely to happen for the Skins in 2017 - even better things than they have experienced in the last two years, which saw them essentially achieve the playoff qualification level of general competence. 

We don't know who they will be, but the Skins will have good people to receive passes. They will have a better DL coach. They will probably get a decent healthy player back in Galette. They will probably pick up at least one new decent player on defense via the draft or free agency. 

Overall, despite all the unanswered questions, the Redskins are in pretty good shape. Enjoy the hype if that's your taste, but there's no reason to believe it. The Skins....are good.