Boldly Hoping: Legitimate Contention Hangs in the Balance for the Redskins on Sunday
by Ken Meringolo on Sep 30, 2011 4:01 PM EDT
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PrintI typically don't believe in must-win games this early in the season. In truth, they are all must-win games. The season only provides us with 16 chances to notch victories, so every week is a real test that requires our 'A' game. Against the Rams on Sunday, we will find ourselves pitted against a team we are capable of beating. Though I have suggested otherwise, you could argue that this is not a team we "should" beat, but rather a game we should not fall out of in the first quarter. Either way, the path to 3-1 could be a lot harder.
If we look at the schedule, we know that the end of it provides a few difficult tests. We need to get wins now because by the time we are staring down the Jets and Patriots in consecutive weeks, we don't want to be in the position of having to win or be mathematically eliminated. (I know...Buffalo ain't looking like a cakewalk right now either.)
Teams make the playoffs every year by doing little more than beating the teams they are capable of beating. Sounds pretty obvious...I know. Yet time and time again teams fail to clear this reasonable bar.
We still can't count ourselves among the elite teams in this league, but the Washington Redskins could take a giant leap forward in 2011 by simply winning the games against those fellow mediocre teams we will face in the next two months.That is how you earn respectability. That is how you go from down and out to up and coming.
That is why this week is, in fact, a must-win game for this Washington team.
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I think I said the same thing in the Pollyanna post
We need to win this game if we want to talk about truly having taken the next step. We lose this, we’re still just deluding ourselves.
No Danny, Nooooooo - Tom Landry, 1982., and Washington Redskins fans, 1999-
Are we better than the Rams?
Are we better personnel-wise?
The Rams were a hot up-and-coming team last year and this year, while the Redskins have been considered to be a bad team.
Who is the better team?
Well that's a lot interesting questions there.
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by Parks Smith on Sep 30, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Rams are by far having a worse season this year
Look at the numbers and margins of victory/loss between St. Louis and Washington this year.
On offense, the Rams are averaging 12 points per game, their 3rd down conversion percentage is 2nd-to-last (at 25%, with only the Bengals behind them), Stephen Jackson is hurt, their #1 wideout is hurt (Amendola), after Bradford their draft picks have not been panning out, and interestingly, St. Louis has given up the 2nd-most penalty yards while Washington has given up the least # of PYards this year.
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
The same goes for the Rams on defense
They’re the 2nd-worst defense/they’re giving up the 2nd-most # of PPG at 33/game, they’re giving up the 2nd-most # of YPG at a whopping 426/game (174 YPGA on the ground, 252 YPGA in the air), and they have only one interception this season
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
And if this is a question about who is better, Rex or Sam
Of course Bradford’s more talented, but we have better protection and (hard to believe we can say this) more weapons/options on offense
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
We may not have a top-5 lockdown at corner but we’re definitely not giving up 252 YPGA in the air like the Rams pass defense is
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Is this necessary?
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by Parks Smith on Sep 30, 2011 4:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Just do it in one post.
QB
RB
etc.
too late now I guess
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Haha that's how this post got like two billion comments in two minutes.
"Dyslexia?? It's DCO." - WestcoastO'sfan
It would get there faster if you had misspelled "two" wrong.
Had you said too or to, there might be a sideways 8 at the comment count.
Skins rule
Why does everyone say
the Jets are so good?? They’re NOT!!
Ken has a thing for the Sanchize
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We get on Grossman
but he is playing better than Dirty Sanchez.
Formerly KS and CS
by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Sep 30, 2011 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
They are NOT as good as they have been in year's past
I actually think that’s a winnable game for us at home in December, if our team is relatively healthy
Maybe not, but they've been near elite the last few years
Which means that even “not as good as they have been” is still pretty darn good.
No Danny, Nooooooo - Tom Landry, 1982., and Washington Redskins fans, 1999-
I love watching the Jets lose
They got this swagger like they actually won something..
The Steelers have won in recent memory, Ravens, etc..
Jets aint shit!! I give the Bears more respect!!
I think the argument can be simplified into "We have to win because the Rams are awful and 2nd-to-last in offense/defense this year, and S-Jax is hurt"
Rather than looking at the rest of the season. Who knows who’s going to be hurt, competitive, riding momentum, reeling, even after our Bye. The Rams are at a statistical nadir right now and their most durable, talented offensive weapon is at 80% at best, i.e. we can’t lose to crappy teams.
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 4:36 PM EDT reply actions
We could still.....
hurt Bradford and Lauranitis……that would be their bottom!!!
Blood is red, bruises are blue, but when Kerackpo is chasing you, you will be shitting on you!!!
+1
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That's the point
it was meant to be a joke
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Sep 30, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
We lose
We realize just how far away we still are.
We win
We’re loading up the beach umbrellas on the band wagon.
by Dammit Cerrato... on Sep 30, 2011 5:06 PM EDT reply actions
Can't have the bandwagon
Kornheiser has it locked in his garage. He’d have to come out of retirement to get it going again.
Formerly KS and CS
by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Sep 30, 2011 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions
#1 Reason this is a MUST! win
1) Next week is a bye.
Formerly KS and CS
by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Sep 30, 2011 6:02 PM EDT reply actions
Cheerleaders - Rams
I hate to say it, but…
<a href=“http://www.stlouisrams.com/cheerleaders/roster.html”
"My cat's breath smells like cat food."
Hey Nasty
I figured out how to attach the pictures in one of my last posts. If you right click the picture you want to link and select properties, you can see the URL of the actual picture file. Copy and paste that address into the picture link thing and it should work.
by DCtoAustralia on Sep 30, 2011 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
The one on the right..
.. looks like Joy Turner from My Name is Earl. I wondered what she was up to now!
I'm glad you are all so confident
that means we have a chance. How long do you think we will stumble around? The more we play like crap, the better the odds we will put a nice game together.
You know, it's funny
I read more than once before the season started over at the rams blog that the Rams had 2 bye weeks – the Redskins and the “real bye”. Interesting how the tables have turned, isn’t it? Either way, the Redskins won’t come into this one like they did the Dallas game.
That's funny, I don't recall seeing such a post
please provide a link as proof. I expect the Hog Fries to win but I’m hoping you will get sucked into a trap game. There is a storm brewing, what is your away game record?
Pleanty I'm not sure I can count that high.
We have a backwards schedule, hard to easy. Eventually we will get to someone we can beat, maybe game 16…..LOL!
Win or lose
You guys have a fantastic QB to build around. Another draft or two and getting healthy again, and you guys are going to be shaking up your division.
I just want to see an injury-free game Sunday. It’s one of the advantages the Redskins have had in the past few games (whether they capitalized on it or not), and the Rams don’t need to be dinged up anymore either.
lol
yeah, I’m going to trawl back though hundreds of posts to find a few comments I read 2 months ago.
by TheDeepBall on Sep 30, 2011 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
There is a search function at the top.
No worries, I just can’t imagine as bad as our team is that any Rams fan would take any game as an easy win. We know what we have.
I think we win by default
Because we have more than five fans.
"Dyslexia?? It's DCO." - WestcoastO'sfan
if we lose this game...
we should throw in the towl and lose out…. we are gonna need every win we can get to be a playoff team.. last week we let 1 get away…. if we go 8-8 this year that will a waisted season.. no good draft pick, no playoff birth…. we will be stuck with grossmen or beck again another year or have to trade picks to get a FA qb or trade picks and players to move up in the draft.
Dude.....this is football,
you don’t “throw in the towel”.
"Please don't dominate the rap, Jack, if you got nothin' new to say."-Robert Hunter
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