What Does Yesterday Mean to Us?

A brief review of Sunday’s actions and thoughts on what it means to the Skins.

Obviously, we have to start with the Cowboy’s 37-20 victory over the Dolphins. Obviously, we’re unhappy about that.  For those who remember the transitive property from school, it would be easy to infer the Cowboys are better than the Redskins because they beat the Dolphins more handily than we did. Not really so.  First, Trent Green threw 4 interceptions and fumbled a snap on a spike play during the 2 miinute drill.  Of course, the Cowboys will argue that their defense is more ball hawking.  I would argue Trent just had a bad game.  I think much of this was because of the tape from the Giants game last week.  It is obvious that the way to beat the Cowboys is to attack their secondary.  Roy Williams can be burned deep.  Terrance Newman is hurt right now.  The problem is that the Dolphins don’t have the personnel to truly exploit the weakness.  Marty Booker and Chris Chambers are not Jerry Rice (no, not the dancer, the receiver…oh they’re the same?  Weird.) and Marvin Harrison.  And Trent Green isn’t even Trent Green anymore.  By opening the playbook compared to what they did versus the Skins, they got careless. Yes, the Cowboys offense is more explosive than the current Redskins offense, but the Giants game showed it is also more prone to giving up the big play.  We can take these guys.

The other game with obvious implications was the Giants crushing defeat at the hands of the Packers. The Manning suck ups…err main stream media keep saying Manning played well, and the defense let him down.  More accurately, Manning was avergae at best with a 16 for 29, 211 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT day. Manning also fumbled the ball (though he got it back) once, and could only get 13 pts on the board.  Question to the media: If his name was Eli Jackson, would you have said he played well? Anyway, the defense did crumble in the 4th quarter which is much better than their 1st quarter collapse last week.  At any rate, I’m not afraid of them.  And I am REALLY not afraid of them after I read this Tom Coughlin quote: “I think we are a better football team than we have shown. Obviously I don’t have any real grounds for saying that, it is just a belief. I do believe we are all in it together and I do believe we are all embarrassed.” The Giants have a bye week during week 9.  Some other coach will be running those practices.

Other than the Skins and Cowboys, there are only 3 other undefeated teams in the NFC right now.  Detroit looks shaky but for real.  There are so many weapons on that team and the defense has been good enough.  They are no Super Bowl threat, but they will win 9-10.  I’m actually a bit frightened to play them in October.  San Francisco is just skating by with Alex Smith playing terribly.  If Smith turns it around, they’re for real.  That defense is incredible right now. If Smith continues to play like his rookie year, they’re 8-8 at best. Green Bay is doing it with smoke and mirrors and I refuse to believe they will be a problem on Oct. 14th.  Laron Landry gets his first INT return for a TD off of Brett Favre that week. But thanks, Pack, for taking care of Philly and the Giants.

-DW