Does the Eagles run remind you of anything???

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

So what you’re saying is, there can never be any reasonable expectation of improvement from one season to the next? If I recall correctly, your prediction for the year was 11-5, then you downgraded that after watching the preseason and looking at our schedule. Upon what did you base those expectations?

Here’s my basic point: If a sick, twisted, vicious, psychotic serial murderer one day decides to help an old lady cross the street, it doesn’t change who he really is. He’s still a sick, twisted, vicious, psychotic serial murderer.

Similarly, the Redskins, despite that 5-0 run last year, were 11-16 before, and are 5-10 since. Remember the serial murderer parallel. Even when you include that oh-so wondrous playoff run, they will finish 22-26 at best over the last three seasons, or 21-27 if they lose to the Giants. Though sprinkled with occasional success, either way you slice it, that’s the mark of losers.

You and I will probably go to our graves with this -- you say they were a good team last year; I say they were good enough to take advantage of weakling opponents and fortunate events by the skin of their teeth. I'm not saying they were garbage. They just weren't all they were cracked up to be, and maybe our hopes this season were based on a false premise.

Let's say it all was a fluke...so what? They still did what they did. You can't take that away from them. Last year, some things went our way and we ended up with a good record. This year, some things have not gone our way and we will end up with a poor record. That's the ups and downs of the NFL. You can't tell me Pittsburgh was the best team last year, you can't! But they won it all! So while they weren't the best team, they played the best and had things go their way. That's football. As poor as our team has been, had we had just a handful of plays go our way, we'd be in the playoffs. That's football. Had Campbell had a full season under center, we'd have a better record, had we not been decimated with injuries, we'd be better. That's football. I feel we underacheived last year, so a 10-6 record was not what we were capable of, but about what we were overall. This year, the way we've played we deserve our 5-6 win season, cause that's the way we've played. Oh well. You can't compare the two seasons, they are totally different.
Should Pittsburgh's superbowl be taken away because they sucked this year? That is just the most flawed logic I've ever heard. You can't expect momentum to carry over from season to season, it never does. Ask all the previous superbowl winners minus the patriots.