The best 'Skins rant I've heard this year!!!

[skindogger47]

Man I hope we drop 35 on the Seahawks. Great article.

[Riggo44]

Nice. Some pretty good points made there.

[Daryl Elite]

I read that earlier. Redskins.com is actually a really nice site and updated regularly for being "the official site." They have new video on Redskins.comTV every day...

[Cooley 350Z]

Really nice, welcome! I just watched the first Dallas highlights like 6 times, I'm so amped!!! I can't wait to fly to Seattle tomorrow! HAIL...

[Daryl Elite]

Have an extra ticket (more like tickets since I'll need one for the plane and one for the game...)

I watched that Dallas highlights video tonight as well, heh.

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by Daryl Elite

Have an extra ticket (more like tickets since I'll need one for the plane and one for the game...)

I watched that Dallas highlights video tonight as well, heh.

When I first read that I didn't realize it was a question. I was ready to pack my bags.

[RedskinPete]

My fourteen year old son came home from school telling me about the shit he getting over the Xmas gifts he was given [many Redskins stuff]!!! His new hats are his thing along with a Terp sweet shrit! Anyway living out here on the left coast in Nor Cal even thought we live in Raider and 49er area the Seahawks fans are coming out of the woodwork! He is the only Skin fan at his school. It's a fact that the Redskins will lose and the Hawks will be at home for the NFC Championship game in many Hawks fans mines out here!!! His friends say things like the Bucs are not the Seahawks or this game is going to be a blow out!!! He the AM stations out here in Sac and KNBR in SF say give the points[9] and pick Seattle! It's funny you still hear the Gibbs is to old and the same about Burnell! The D is over rated and Portis is one hit away from being out!!! I can't wait to see what that old guy Gibbs dose to Seattle!!!! Going to be fun!!!

[hesscl34]

Got this one off the web... great article!!

Ten reasons why the Redskins can beat the Seahawks.

1) Excluding their meaningless late-season games with the Colts and Packers (W and L, respectively), the Seahawks have played four teams with a winning record and have split those contests. The Redskins, meanwhile, have played eleven teams with a winning record and are 6-5 in those games.

2) The Seahawks two wins against teams with winning records came via monumental gaffes by their opponents. In week 7 against Dallas, Drew Bledsoe threw an ill-advised last-second interception that set up a game-winning Seattle FG. Five weeks later, in another home game against an NFC East opponent, Giants kicker Jay Feely missed three makeable FGs in the 4th quarter and overtime. Don't tell me Seattle is invincible at home.

3) In his nine games against teams with records worse than 6-10, Alexander is averaging 131.1 yards and 2.33 touchdowns. In four games against teams with winning records, Shaun Alexander is averaging 85.5 yards and .5 touchdowns. If A. Rod doesn't play in the World Baseball Classic, maybe Shaun A. could take his place, seeing as they both love piling up stats against inferior opponents but never seem to get it done in big games.

4) Everyone talks about how difficult it is to win a Wild Card and Divisional Playoff game on the road. And they're right. Only twice since the NFL expanded to a 12-team playoff in 1990 have teams won road games in the first two rounds of the playoffs. The last team to do it was the 1996 Jacksonville Jaguars. Their quarterback? Mark Brunell.

5) Joe Gibbs has a career 18-5 record in the playoffs and is 19-4 in games played in January.

6) The Seahawks franchise has not won a playoff game since 1984, the longest such current drought in the NFL. Under Holmgren, Seattle is 0-3 in the playoffs, including a home-loss last season to the underdog St. Louis Rams.

7) Mike Holmgren is a very good coach, but he hasn't won a playoff game without Brett Favre. Joe Gibbs, on the other hand, is a very great coach and has won playoff games and Super Bowls with Jay Schroeder, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien.

8) Seattle tackle Walter Jones is one of, if the not the, best offensive lineman in football. This should help quell Philip Daniels, but the strength of the Redskins d-line is not on the outside but in the middle with Cornelius Griffin and Joe Salave'a.

9) The Redskins have played four "rematch" games this season (Dallas, New York, Tampa Bay and Philadelphia). In the first games against those teams, Washington was outscored 95-66. In the rematches, it was Washington that did the outscoring: 118-57. Gibbs took them from a 29-point deficit to a 61-point advantage, which leads me to #10, the most important fact on this list:

10) Week 3: Washington 20 - Seattle 17. It's one thing to think the Redskins won't win. But to think they can't, especially in light of the fact they've already beaten Seattle this season, is absurd.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Joe Gibbs, on the other hand, is a very great coach and has won playoff games and Super Bowls with Jay Schroeder, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien

Gibbs won with Theismann, not Schroeder. Williams took over for Schroeder that year. Come on man, I was 4 or 5 at the time and I knew that.

Good post otherwise. Hail!

[MTK]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Joe Gibbs, on the other hand, is a very great coach and has won playoff games and Super Bowls with Jay Schroeder, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien

Gibbs won with Theismann, not Schroeder. Williams took over for Schroeder that year. Come on man, I was 4 or 5 at the time and I knew that.

Good post otherwise. Hail!

The article says he won playoff games AND Super Bowls with Theismann. Schroeder, Williams and Rypien.

Schroeder didn't win a SB, but he did win playoff games.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

My mistake. Must be the 5 Dr. Peppers and the anticipation of tomorrow.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by hesscl34

3) In his nine games against teams with records worse than 6-10, Alexander is averaging 131.1 yards and 2.33 touchdowns. In four games against teams with winning records, Shaun Alexander is averaging 85.5 yards and .5 touchdowns. If A. Rod doesn't play in the World Baseball Classic, maybe Shaun A. could take his place, seeing as they both love piling up stats against inferior opponents but never seem to get it done in big games.

I really don't want the Skins to be the team Alexander breaks out of his post-season funk against!

[hesscl34]

... don't blame me..that came from Redskins.com!! Point is, he did it with different QBs!

[firstdown]

I love when people say Portis is one hit away from being knock out of a game. What they don't know is much about Betts and the ROCK! If I knew we were starting the game without Portis I would not have any problem with the one two punch these guys give us.

[Monk-Fan]

I love Clinton but i dont think we miss that much with Betts in there if Clinton gets hurt. Does anyone, besides us, realize what a bruising RB Betts is?