LaRon Landry is crazy. LaRon Landry is awesome. LaRon Landry just does not care.

by Skin Patrol on Dec 19, 2007 12:58 PM EST in Players

So spoketh teammate Reed Doughty (hat tipped to Ryan Wilson) at zee Bog:

"...he's crazy," Doughty said. "He's awesome. He doesn't care."

This prompted by LaRon Landry's mean fashion sense; after victory on Sunday night Dan Steinberg caught Landry in the locker room with a shirt announcing "Suicide Mission" to the world. Something tells me that Landry was being disingenuous -- it's the other poor bastard who is meant to die, not LaRon. Here come the quotes:

"He's crazy," [Defensive lineman Demetric] Evans said. "Be careful man."...

"Yup," he said. "I'm crazy. That's just the approach you have to have each and every game. Why not give it your all and leave it on the field? If you don't live up to that, why are you doing it?"

And that does enormous honor to Sean Taylor (receiving plenty of his own, deservedly so) who stated pretty much exactly that effect with this august quote from last August:

It's almost like we play a kid's game for a king's ransom, and if you don't take it seriously enough, one day you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have did this, or I could have did that.' " Taylor said. "I'll just say that I'm healthy right now, and I'm going into my fourth year, so why not do the best that I can? Whether it's eating right, whether it's training myself right, or whether it's studying harder. It's whatever I can do to better myself."

In all likelihood it is merely coincedence that LaRon Landry has a suicide mission shirt on the night of a HUGE win. Teams with "attitude" are typically the ones that win and it probably isn't the other way around. But you know what? There wasn't, so far as I can tell, a Suicide Mission t-shirt when we squandered a 1st half lead the last time we played the Giants, at home. And it was Landry knocking down Eli Manning's 3rd to last pass of the game to prevent the comeback on Sunday. I'll pretend that we won because of attitude and attribute it to Landry if only because it helps me look towards next week a bit more hopeful that this team has found a way to win and won't forget.

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Awesome.

And the last time I'll say this:

It is such an awful shame that Landry and Taylor won't be anchoring our secondary together for the next 5-10 years. They are cut from the same cloth. I think they would have made each other that much better.

by zknower on Dec 19, 2007 5:11 PM EST 0 recs

Can we call him...

Kamikaze from now on?

by Romans12 on Dec 19, 2007 6:17 PM EST 0 recs

Wish it was the last time for me

But yes i agree with you. This may have been the best safety tandem ever. It upsets me everytime i think about it. Sometimes i feel funny because hes just a player i didnt know and im just a fan.
But he was special. A talent like this may never come around in my lifetime again. I really looked forward to watching him play.

Landry is not as big but he has the same mentality. What a blessing we drafted him as he may be the closest person we'll get to what taylor was.

Taylor will never be replaceable. But watching landry looks like it will alot of fun.

by Sincethebeginning on Dec 19, 2007 6:21 PM EST 0 recs

BANZAI!!!

I just want ONE monster hit on T.O.

by CptChaosSidekick on Dec 19, 2007 7:51 PM EST 0 recs

It's going to happen

I can see his mouth telling himself "Mayun, thank gahd, no mo numboh twinty one, I'ma score over his side of da fiel." (Or something like that, I tried to do his accent in text, gimme a break.)

And then, BAM!

Talkin' Sports

by BlackOps on Dec 19, 2007 10:26 PM EST up 0 recs

wildcard picture...

can anyone give an update on what we need to happen to get one of the wildcard spots?

by Redskinette on Dec 20, 2007 11:13 AM EST 0 recs

pretty basic

We need to win both remianing games.
We need New Orleans to lose one of their remaining games, or we need the Giants to lose both of their remaining games.

It may still be mathematically possible for us to get in if we don't win out, but the odds would be slim to none at best. I will figure it out and post an update.

by zknower on Dec 20, 2007 1:28 PM EST up 0 recs

one-loss scenarios

Possible scenarios if we lose one game:

If we lose to Minnesota but beat Dallas, we finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs.
NY would be in ahead of us because their worst-case finish is 9-7. Minnesota would get in ahead of us because if they beat us, their worst-case finish is is 9-7. We HAVE to beat MInn to make the playoffs.

If we beat Minnesota but lose to Dallas, we can still sneak in if Minnesota and New Orleans lose ALL of their remaining games, and Carolina loses ONE of its remaining games.

Here's why:
If we beat MINN but lose to Dallas, we would finish at 8-8, NFC conference record of 6-6

NY gets 5th wildcard spot with a worst-case record of 9-7.

We'd be competing with three other teams for the 6th wildcard spot: Minnesota, New Orleans, and Carolina. Obviously, if any of these teams finish 9-7, they'd get in ahead of us.

MINN: In addition to losing to us, we'd need them to lose to Denver to drop to 8-8. (we win tiebreaker head-to-head)

NEW ORLEANS: If they only lose one of their remaining two games, they'll finish 8-8 with an NFC record of 7-5, which would beat us in a tiebreaker. SO we'd need them to lose BOTH of their remaining games, to finish 7-9 overall.

CAROLINA: Would have to win BOTH their remaining games to finish at 8-8. Their NFC record would then be 6-6, like ours. The tiebreak would be common games, and they beat us in this tiebreak (our common opponents were tampa bay, arizona, green bay, and dallas. they would have a common games record of 3-2, ours would be 1-4, so they would get in). This means we'd need Carolina to lose at least ONE of their remaining two games so they finish at 7-9 or below.

All other opponents who might finish 8-8 lose to us because of head-to-head record(Detroit and Arizona) or NFC record (Philadelphia).

by zknower on Dec 20, 2007 2:08 PM EST up 0 recs

Area 30

In their little time together, Landry took some major tips from Sean. I expect to see Landry play at the same level that Taylor left off at, and play at pro-bowl level game in and out. Landry will help lead this team into the playoffs

Hail.

by A frank skinfan on Dec 20, 2007 6:10 PM EST 0 recs