6-2 thru mid-season

Well guys, I thought we should start a thread thanking the new coach and our team for a great season to this point.

I am not crowning the team as champions of the East or saying we are in the playoffs, but I want to thank all our players, Coach Zorn and the whole Redskins staff.

Thanks you guys!! I expect the second half of the season to be just as good. This could finally be our year to win the division and who knows what else. Keep up the good work guys and strive to keep getting better each week.

Well said!
And please..... I don't want to hear how we are not winning "pretty" or we "should have won by a larger margin." I mean C'mon! The truth is if we hadn't committed so many of those garbage penalties that kept their drive alive (ending in a TD) and stopped who knows how many of our 1st downs the game would have been a blow out. But at the end of the season we all know a win is a win.
The thing is any one team going into playing a winless team could have lost or sweated out the game out with a close win. ANY TEAM! Now I'm sure the Chicago forums are all saying "watch the trap game"..."lets not play down to a winless team"....just like we were. LOL

Before the season started I would have expected 4-4 at this point, maybe 5-3 at best. The scary part is this team is capable of playing so much better. They're still working out the kinks but they're winning in the process.

oh soo true matty..i like what i,ve seen to this point with still alot to work on..

the stretch run will tell us all.....thanks here too and keep it going..

Yeah 6-2 was just not something I thought we'd do. I might have optimistically thought we could do it with some help but it wouldn't have been reasonable. That said I think we're walking a line right now and we need to take some serious steps away from it. We have to start putting a little dominance into our performance. Not saying we need to win 40-0 every week but we have to impose our will and finish better or we could be 2-6 down the stretch. The positive is that this team is playing better football collectively than we have in years.

I agree. We could very easily be 4-4 also. We haven't been turning the ball over and still just pulling out wins. If we are really that good, then we should be winning by bigger margins playing turnover free games against the teams we have faced the past 3 weeks.

Great job by the team, they're exceeding expectations.

I'm thrilled with our ability to move the ball, but I want to see us winning the turnover battle. Lately we've been losing that battle.

When we go to play NYG, Dallas, and Philly again - the games that will make or break our season - we're going to need the turnover battle on our side.

The offense is doing a decent enough job protecting the football lately, but the defense isn't generating any. We need to turn that around, and I'd point toward the pass rush. We need to generate more pressure on the QB, that should lead to the turnovers which would allow us to start winning more convincingly.

We had a couple of turnover chances yesterday on fumbles that literally didn't bounce our way, those are so frustrating. And of course Rogers had one bounce off his hands, again. But at least he's playing at a high level.

I think the main reason we have won so many is due to Portis and Campbell.
The D is better than I thought it would be....
But Portis' ability to keep the clock rolling and Campbell's lack of ints basically have won us half the games....and that points to the oline to an extent.

I was honestly expecting like 3-5 at this point considering a rookie head coach.
6-2 is AWESOME.

Just think...we are ranked #7 in offense.
Imagine if we were ranked higher than #23 in points scored.
That is the only reason we haven't been consistently winning by 2 scores.
Although I am obviously happy we are winning, as Matty said, imagine how much better they will be once they start cashing in on all those yards.
They can be quite good....but right now, struggling with easy teams,
They are a wild card contender, just like the end of last year.
They need to step it up if they want to make a run for the Super Bowl.
Opportunities like this don't come around very often.

Before the season started I would have expected 4-4 at this point, maybe 5-3 at best. The scary part is this team is capable of playing so much better. They're still working out the kinks but they're winning in the process.

I'm always OVERLY optimistic at the beginning of the year but 6-2? For the first time in a very long time this team has exceeded my expectations coming out of the gate. And yes, it is scary how good this team can be given time. I was already telling myself to be patient with this new offense. It would take a couple of years to implement it to the degree of having any real success. The job the coaches and players have done is nothing short of outstanding. I've been saying once the "O" gets clicking, WTF OUT! We're so close fellas. So close.

a little more luck and we could have been 8-0... a little bit less luck, and well...

good job so far, but there are definitely places to improve, and our rookie pull, so far, has sucked :(. at least horton is rocking it.

I think the main reason we have won so many is due to Portis and Campbell.
The D is better than I thought it would be....
But Portis' ability to keep the clock rolling and Campbell's lack of ints basically have won us half the games....and that points to the oline to an extent.

I was honestly expecting like 3-5 at this point considering a rookie head coach.
6-2 is AWESOME.

Just think...we are ranked #7 in offense.
Imagine if we were ranked higher than #23 in points scored.
That is the only reason we haven't been consistently winning by 2 scores.
Although I am obviously happy we are winning, as Matty said, imagine how much better they will be once they start cashing in on all those yards.
They can be quite good....but right now, struggling with easy teams,
They are a wild card contender, just like the end of last year.
They need to step it up if they want to make a run for the Super Bowl.
Opportunities like this don't come around very often.

Portis is having another great season and if a big part of it, but have to give dues to the OLine, especially the left side. They are doing a great job of opening holes for Portis. Run blocking has been awesome and pass blocking so so, but Campbell has made good decisions so far when under pressure.

a little more luck and we could have been 8-0... a little bit less luck, and well...

good job so far, but there are definitely places to improve, and our rookie pull, so far, has sucked :(. at least horton is rocking it.

Ya with some bad luck we could easily be 2-6 considering games have been so close and we haven't turned the ball over. We haven't dominated any game which I would love to see. Hopefully that is coming. If we are going to have a hot streak and start scoring, the second half of the season is a good time to start. :)