[sportscurmudgeon]

The "style" of NFC East football is power football. I don't know how or why that evolved, but it is the case. The Cowboys, Giants and Eagles all line up with big and powerful lines and linebackers and push people around.

The Redskins OL and DL are not brutes - - and they have not been since the late 80s/early 90s. They get pushed around in division games - - simple as that.

When you have the situation where some - - not all but surely some - - of the players come to the Skins "to get paid"; you aren't going to get rough/tough/brutish play out of all of them. Lots of high priced free agents come down with what I call "fat wallet syndrome". They get that huge bonus check and they dial it down just a bit until it is "contract time" once again.

Look at some of the Skins' high priced free agent signings the year before they signed here and the year after they signed here. You may see why - - in a division that plays power football - - the Skins have come up short for the last decade or so.