To quote Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell:
"I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so....so......scared. Mwah wah wah wah."
Since Jeremy and Russell are still fighting through the shock that comes from Andy Reid shitting the bed and McNabb playing the worst game of his life (overthrow everyone=groin or foot injury), I'll comment on the Redskins 2-0 start.
They should have been about 60-40 to beat Miami, and the overtime result proved that. They should have been about 30-70 to beat Philly in Philly, but Andy Reid and McNabb leveled the playing field.
Tip to Coach: If there are 14 seconds left in the half, and the driving team has 0 timeouts, and they inexplicably bring on the FG unit to tie it at 6, DON'T CALL FUCKING TIME OUT YOU CHEESE DROOLING MORON. IF YOU DO CALL TIME OUT, PUT 8 MOTHERFUCKERS ON THE GOAL LINE AND MAKE THEM PLAY IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU CHEESE DROOLING MORON. He did and he didn't and they lost Cooley crossing towards the post. 10-6 Skins at the half, and they never looked back.
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As much as it makes my balls joust each other, the Redskins look like a potential sleeper in the NFC. The other candidates (StL, Sea, Car) are doing their best Mike Alstott impression (looking good, but fumbling any important opportunity). Only GB in the NFC is more surprising.
Jason Campbell is better than expected, in that he makes moronic decisions, but the mistakes don't hurt. Clinton Portis looks like that dude who used to wear 26 for the Broncos. Randle-El is almost passing for a legitimate NFL receiver. Add that to Moss and Cooley, and they can't be totally horrific, right? The defense is still weak from line to OLB, but London Fletcher (where'd the Baker go? Did estranged father get drunk at the wedding?) can hold down the middle effectively.
Of course, they've lost Jansen and they look like they might have lost Randy Thomas today. How good will Campbell be when he is getting fucked in the ass every time he drops back? How good will Portis be when the other jersey is scheduling meetings in the backfield?
It's too early to tell, but looking at the Giants and Eagles, it might be that the Cowboys win 12 or 13, and the Redskins scrape up enough dregs to get to 9 or 10 wins.
In this era, that's a successful season. Plus, Gibbs finally has a good note to go out on. You know Cowher is sitting at home thinking "either the Panthers or Redskins are going to need a coach this offseason. I live in Raleigh, and Washington is an hour away when Danny Boy gives me his chopper to sign me."
For once, it might not be a depressing shit-filled universe in the land of the Redskins. Dust off the 1999 flags, I see the bandwagon re-forming.
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The other reason I'm skerred is that the Steelers don't look like timid dogshit like last year. I have a feeling the Bengals loss will be more important in the AFC column than the AFC North column.
The critical part of the TD sequence was us taking the delay of game after a timeout so that 1st and Goal at the 2 could be at the 7. Then those two false start penalties were just so we had enough room for that pass play. We didn't want to be too close.
We're starting to look like the Giants. 5 false starts...
However, with the Giants at home next week, 3-0 going into the bye week is not out of the question!
Gotta love the NFC East where any combination of the four teams is a rivalry game and both teams hate each other's guts.
It's true. That "back-up-to-score" strategy was brilliant, and characteristic of the Joe Gibbs era.
This is the second game in a row that the Redskins won because the other team sucked more. I'm not sure why J-Red, a hater of all things D.C., is trying to pump them up. Other than Moss, the receivers are still a bunch of underacheivers, Cooley especially, even if he did have a TD.
Ports was "eh" and I'm not sure how he looks like the guy from Denver. He had one great TD run on a tackling-optional drill from Philly.
And Jason Campbell made some mistakes, yes, but overall looked pretty sharp and I think was one of the bright spots.
Ben, obviously you don't know about my "build them up to knock them down" method of Redskin fan manipulation.
It's only fun to hate the Redskins when their fans are checking travelocity for cheap flights to Tempe. This year they resigned themselves to a crappy year, and now that they're off to a good start, I need those Bandwagon bumper stickers back on the cars.
Then, when they finish 7-9, I can make fun of all the people trying to peel the stickers off their car in freezing conditions in December.
My hopes have only been raised to a 2nd place finish in the NFC East, a result which seems likely if only because PHI and NYG are totally inept right now. A winning record or a playoff berth is another matter entirely.
J-Red, I'm not familiar with these easily manipulated, optimistic Washington Redskin Potato fans. Everyone I know is generally pretty negative.
I think it's reasonable to think they can sneak into the playoffs and even win one playoff game, depending on the matchup. But Super Bowl bound? You must know some really dumb people.
Jeremy? Please tell me you have it in perspective.
While you all are making fun of the redskins, we in the Detroit area are basking in the glory of two Detroit wins thus far this year. All we need is one more win, and we will be tied with last years record. We're looking pretty good. One word of advice to Kinta, the guy in end zone that you want to hit is the guy with lion's helmut on. Keep that in mind. what glorious world we live in
J-Red, can you start a Great Lakes google blog for me? I think I have a ready-made audience.
I take offense to calling them Great Lakes. How can anything we share with Canada be great? Just look at MLB and NBA. Not great.
Okay...
How about the Kwame Kilpatrick Sports Blog? We can get Robert O'Kelley to be a guest blogger.
I don't think the Lions performance so far is lost on any of us. The Lions have been a consistent pick against the spread. However, the Lions schedule so far makes the Redskins' look brutal. Once Detroit plays a real team, we'll find out how realistic Kitna's 10 wins and divine intervention are. You're one more concussion away from the J.T. O'Sullivan show. At least he can take a snap, unlike Bollinger.
leave kwame out of this one....he has his own problems. cops turned state's evidence against him costing the tax payers a mere $6 million dollars in damages...where the hell they think they'll come up that type of cash flow is beyond me...he could start by selling off that two carat diamond he wears in his left ear or maybe those 5 thousand dollar suits he always sporting. one problem with that is we would have to find another fat ass monster truck jerk who could fit in to them. As for the poor prostitute who was at the root of this case, she was found belly up in one of our great lakes. So, as you can see, my friend, Kwame has enough on his plate so he will have to get to you on that sport's blog deal. thanks.
I nominate Coleman Young and Dennis Archer. Perhaps we could have federal penitentiary roundtable with former mayors of Detroit?
What about The Mayor, Sean Casey?
The Tigers stink. Verlander just gave up a homer to Hafner to tie the game. I HATE CLEVELAND.
can't do coleman young....been dead for years. only mayor that had to have speeches bleeped for profanity. by the time his speech was over, i don't think most people knew what the hell he was talking about, besides he hated the burbs...said we should keep the two separate and he didn't need their help in financing his city. for denise archer...we loved him, but he was a little too white for the likings for most people in the city of detroit. He tried to bring the suburbs back to the city, but the damage had been done. no, kwame is what the people of detroit know and love...he knows how to give a brother a break...(laugh).
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