Momentum

[BleedBurgundy]

Well, we're past the halfway point in the season and we've done a decidedly good job of stinking up the joint. But... it does look possible that we're in the middle of a big momentum shift in the NFC East.

The Cowboys and Giants have both looked strong at various earlier parts of the season (both games that we played, anyway) and now the Giants are starting a rookie at QB and Dallas is all F'd up. The Eagles are still the freakin' Eagles, but that defense of theirs didn't look anything close to impenetrable last night. The point of all of this is, we're a very talented team, with a new(old) quarterback who is capable of the spectacular (sometimes the spectacularly dumb); a HOF coach; one of the top 5 running backs in the league; a talented receiving corps and (forgiving this past weekend) a world class D. Those look like some pretty damn good components of a team that should at the very least win more games than it loses during the second half of the year.

If Dallas and Giants continue on the downswing and PR gives us the spark that we've all been lighting candles for the past 9 weeks, we could POSSIBLY end up in 2nd place in the division. I doubt we'd be in a position even then to get a wild card but it would be a good jumping off point for next year.

All of this leads to one very valuable commodity: Hope for Redskins Fans.