Tied for 5th best record in NFC

[BringBackJoeT]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

look, I am all about the Skins making the playoffs, but lets get real people. We are 1-2 in our division, play Dallas twice and NY "football" Giants. Plus we are on the road in Tampa, Minnesota. I am sorry, but I dont think there is anyway in hell we beat the Cowboys. They are too damn good. there is something to say for being die hard fans, but at some point that becomes crazy when you talk about "when we beat the cowboys and giants and this and that" What gives anyone any reason to think we can beat any of those teams? We have not shown anything that gives an impression of being a quality team that can win big games. We fold at the end. Good teams dont fold.

I am sick of hearing the cowboys will start losing, and Green bay will start losing neither can keep up their win streaks.... THEY ARE GOOD TEAMS!! There is a difference there, they find ways to win, make plays when they have to. We find ways to lose and let other teams make the plays. Until we make a change philisophically, this is who we are. Dont you think if anything was going to change it would have all ready. Its been 4 years of the same crap.

A realist indeed. I heard this morning that the spread is 10 1/2. I'm surprised it's not more. We saw in the second half against the Eagles the vulnerability of a Taylor-less Redskins secondary, and in a few days we'll be playing against one of the best pass-happy teams in the league. The bottom line is that we only win this game if we score three touchdowns or more, because the Cowboys are going to get in the end zone multiple times, there's just no question about it. And it's not going to be easy for us matching those TDs, because, as we've seen the last two games and as we knew before, the ultimate strength of this team is a Portis-lead running game, and the Cowboys have the fifth best running defense in the league (they average giving up only 86 total running yards a game). So, while we can point to our general success against the Cowboys over the last two seasons, and maybe some intanglibles (like, for example, the ultimate desire of the burgandy and gold to beat the Cowboys), the fact is that we're playing a team this Sunday that has been playing extremely sound football the past nine weeks and is not nearly as injury-damaged as we are right now.