Say what you want about Skip (I generally like him more than the average ESPN knucklehead - but I consider Skip a knucklehead too), however, in the prediction he got right was the reasoning "The offensive line won't keep offending fans". The OL did in fact turn it around, as he predicted, and was a major reason why his W/L prediction was spot on.
Kontra has it right in that Skip was as much saying 'In Bill We Trust' as anything. However, given Bill's track record, basing a prediction on believing Bill would right the ship is not just blowhard rantings, it's sound thinking. With that said, the schedule we were looking at after the KC debacle did make 12-4 seem like a high mountain to climb (and finishing 12-4 is a hard thing to begin with).