Skins and Texans poised to be next year's Cardinals?

If only the Skins were in the NFC West..... Bla Bla... They could suck like the Cards and still go to playoffs....

I would rather be next years Steelers. There is no consolation prize for second place.

It's just like the Emmy's and Grammy's. No one want's to be the guy that says "It was just an honor to be nominated." You would rather be the one making the speech.

I think that AL Davis said it best when the Raiders lost the Super Bowl one year when one of his players said "Well, at least we learned something". Al Davis replied "We didn't come here to learn nothing, we came here to win!".

In other words I could give a rats ass if we make it to the Super Bowl and lose next season; we might as well have missed the playoffs alltogether. It's like getting to the goal line and having to kick a field goal. Hell, you could have done the same thing from 35 yards away.

Of course you want to be the Steelers, who doesnt want to win it all. The Skins are nowhere close to the Steelers but they are close to the Cards. I'd have loved to have had a party every week for the Skins playoff games and then a huge burgandy & gold Super Bowl bash would have been fantastic. Sure there would have been some disappointment in the end but it sure would have been a fun few weeks. Considering the Skins have been non-entities in the playoffs for quite some time I'll take what the Cards did last year instead of what the Skins did last year.

Sorry, I just can't bring myself to say that I hope the Skins have a mediocre team that happens to put together a good string of games at the right time thanks to the amazing receiving ability of one star player.

I do hope that the Skins play awesome in every game next year with a few acceptable losses to quality opponents. I guess I'm more of a spirit of competition guy rather than a "it don't matter how you get there as long as your there". That doesn't mean I won't be jacked up to watch them play in a Super Bowl if they were just as lucky as the Cards.

Cards proved it can happen to any team playing thier best ball at the right time of the year.

But they were a 9-7 division winning team (from a very weak division) in the regular season. And I really don't think 9-7 gets it done in the NFC East.

The basic point of the article is to point out teams that could be sleepers and make a surprise run. It's not meant to be a literal comparison to the Cardinals that some people seem to be taking it as.

Of course you want to be the Steelers, who doesnt want to win it all. The Skins are nowhere close to the Steelers but they are close to the Cards. I'd have loved to have had a party every week for the Skins playoff games and then a huge burgandy & gold Super Bowl bash would have been fantastic. Sure there would have been some disappointment in the end but it sure would have been a fun few weeks. Considering the Skins have been non-entities in the playoffs for quite some time I'll take what the Cards did last year instead of what the Skins did last year.
NICELY DONE
It WOULD represent many achievments, and the feeling that the organization is going the right way (real or imagined)

my thoughts really. The Cards are crap. They are the poster child for a weak conference where a team can put together a few half decent weeks and squeak by. They'll be worse than 9-7 this year and my money says they don't even get close to the playoffs. We're talking about the Cardinals here. The ARIZONA CARDINALS.

So you're saying if the Skins make the Super Bowl next year after a late-season run (which we've done in recent years), you will complain and call the team crap for not winning early in the season?

Sorry, I just can't bring myself to say that I hope the Skins have a mediocre team that happens to put together a good string of games at the right time thanks to the amazing receiving ability of one star player.

I do hope that the Skins play awesome in every game next year with a few acceptable losses to quality opponents. I guess I'm more of a spirit of competition guy rather than a "it don't matter how you get there as long as your there". That doesn't mean I won't be jacked up to watch them play in a Super Bowl if they were just as lucky as the Cards.

So you'd rather be NE last year instead of AZ?

Yes. The Patriots are a good team.

Yes. The Patriots are a good team.

Not good enough to make the playoffs.