Like most things sport related these days, I've basically forgotten the Cousins drama. I like Alex Smith....I would have been happy to root for Kirk, but whatever.
Redskins will be what they usually are. A decent enough team that has a chance to be better than .500. 10-6, tops. Issue is, they are probably not a true .500 team, so the chances of them finishing below .500 are better than their chances to finish above it.
I've long thought that NFL teams fit into "+/- 6 game windows", based on a lot of things going right or wrong. Injuries for and against, game luck, some coin toss stuff, weather, etc. An average team can vacillate between 5-11 and 11-5 based upon the factors I mentioned. Bad teams from 2-14 and 8-8. Good teams from 8-8 to 14-2. Sliding scale in between which probably encompass 95% of the teams each year (save the woefully bad, like Cleveland, or the strikingly good, like New England....on any given year).
Skins are probably a 7-9 team. So they can finish anywhere from 4-12 to 10-6. Depending.
If all of that makes sense.