TD_washingtonredskins

Pretty methodical win for Washington coming up...the Bears are a mess and I see the Skins scoring pretty easily when they need to. Bears 6 Washington 27

Oh man, I laughed way too hard at that.

What a season...I have to admit that I was telling my son coming into the year that I was expecting a bit of a regression because I felt they might have been a year ahead of schedule last year. Maybe that was my Norvitis setting in, I don't know. But I feel like baseball can work that way sometimes and isn't always linear. Anyway, I really hope they match or eclipse what they did in 2014...that team and 1997 are the best two teams I've ever seen before this season and neither one gave me a true sense that they were going to play in the Fall Classic. The nice thing about this team is that I can truly see a "next 5 years" regardless of how 2023 ends.

They did it to Philly last year...I can't imagine he's incapable to learning. He's succeeded in the league for years.

They match up MUCH better against Philly than Buffalo. I see this as a lower-scoring game... Eagles might jump out early like every game has seemed to go, but the Skins will stick to the run and battle back. Howell will make some plays and steal the W. Washington 22 Philly 20

Unlike some in here, I can still tolerate Grant & Danny and I still like Sheehan. But Doc is just unbelievably awful. I can't understand how I ever spent time listening to him several years ago and thinking "You know, he's right...if the Tarantula can just motivate Wildebeest and the Barracuda to patrol the secondary with reckless abandon, then maybe the Hurricane can make enough plays on the other side of the ball to want it more than the bad guys!"

Here's how sad I am...when that score crept up toward 70 on Sunday, one of my first thoughts was of Dan T.

Yep, you're right: https://www.mlb.com/news/rays-clinch-2023-playoff-berth

Wait, that's ABC News? That's a legitimate quote and headline? Bahahahaha.

I'm sure he'll play 11 snaps, get altitude sickness, and be out 3 weeks with nasal congestion. I think Washington wins this one pretty methodically. Howell will make a point to get the ball out of his hands on time or pull it down and run, which won't give Denver a chance to make big plays on defense. I don't think Wilson can do much against the defense himself, even though I'm sure they'll hit a play or two in the passing game (every team does in the league). I see a 24-10ish type win.

It's amazing to me that this was 22 years ago. In two years, this will be "half my life ago" and that's so strange to me. I was working in Rosslyn and had basically just arrived at work when the news broke of the first plane in NY. A co-worker and I went into a conference room to watch one of the morning shows for a few minutes. I don't think I saw the second plane live, but saw reports of it because I just kept refreshing CNN at my desk. That's when it got a little chaotic since it became clear that our nation was under attack. It got VERY chaotic for us locally when we felt the rumble of the Pentagon nearby (for anyone not local, Rosslyn isn't too far away). I don't remember timelines, but it couldn't have been more than an hour when they made the decision to send us home. All of Arlington was evacuating at the same time because that's when the rumors were swirling. Our building was "the tallest in that area" (whether that's true or not, I have no idea) so people were panicking. The drive home with my roommate who worked at a building across the street took 2 hours even though we lived two Metro stops away. Surreal.

This one will be the culmination of a spring and summer of great vibes and positivity. Washington jumps out early and coasts in the second half. Just because some pretty good Skins teams haven't been able to do it to some pretty bad teams in a long time, I won't predict a shutout. But it'll be close to one. The score won't reflect how one-sided the game is - something like 30-6, but feels more like 45-0.

But there are degrees of knowledge on a subject. I'm not a data scientist, but my company and teams spend plenty of time working in data analytics. That makes me MORE of an expert than Ron based on what I've heard him spew out. I wouldn't try to "school" Ron because I don't care enough, but if I felt the need to do so, I could. Not being smarter than YOU in the topic doesn't mean I don't have the right to lecture a football coach who claims to use said topic. It's like when you're at a sports bar or Super Bowl party and some jackass says something stupid about football like he knows his ****. We aren't Bill Belichick, but we feel plenty comfortable correcting him that, no, they shouldn't have brought in their backup QB with 12:43 left in the first quarter.

As someone who just needed U-8.5 to hit (as part of a same-game parlay) to win over $100 on a $5 bet, that late-inning pitching was certainly disappointing. It made it all better when they came through and won the game anyway. But hitting the parlay would have been sweet.

I'm sure you're right on the first point. I'm just creating an alternate history for my edification. As for the name, I agree that pressure would have been applied. But for the name to actually change, that took a perfect storm of our owner pissing off a minority owner (who happened to run our largest sponsor) and our owner/the team having virtually no remaining friends/good will built up to help. I think if Harris, for example, owned the team in the mid-2010s then we'd still be Redskins (though I agree that people would still be trying to get us to change it). Keep in mind, as far back as the 1980s (and maybe earlier than that, but that's my earliest memory), there were calls to change the name. It wasn't until sponsors pulled out that it was seriously considered...and I'll never believe that the sponsorship decisions were ONLY about the name. It was far more about the feud Snyder was having with his minority owners. If that isn't going on (or those minority owners are already on a boat somewhere due to the sale), then I don't think the George Floyd summer of 2020 would have been enough to change a 85-year old brand.

Going back to Gibbs 1.0...what if this team had some better fortune/good breaks in some of the non-Super Bowl seasons? 1984 - Coming off of back-to-back NFC titles, the Skins hosted an up-and-coming Bears team in the Divisional round. Granted, that loss isn't awful (essentially lost by a TD to the team that would dominate the league the following year), but just imagine if we had gotten it done? We battled back from a two-score deficit to pull within 6 going into the 4th quarter at home. Had we pulled off the comeback, we'd have traveled to San Francisco for the NFC Championship Game. Walsh vs. Gibbs/defending conference champs vs. the team that would become the elite team of the 1980s. 1986 - I know that they had our number in 1986 (and for much of the 1980s), but just imagine if the late-afternoon/evening in New Jersey wasn't so blustery and our passing game had a shot? We were clearly the second-best team in the entire league in 1986 and played the Giants relatively close in each of the two regular season meetings (especially the game in NY). Had we won that game and played Denver in the Super Bowl, we'd be the team that most people talked about as the team of the 1980s (4 titles and 5 appearances from 1982-1991). 1990 - This one may be the biggest reach, but it also was a pretty competitive game. If you take away Ryp's 3 interceptions (one returned for a TD), this is a much closer game. Just imagine if he was ready to ascend a few months earlier than he did! It would have been another Giants NFC Championship Game - and they still had our number!! But you never know...they were beat up and maybe we'd have had the firepower and OL to finally vanquish them. Then, a battle with the Bills in the Super Bowl.

That would have been fantastic. If that had happened and then somehow Snyder was forced or chose to sell the team in the 2014/15 timeframe, all might have been right in the world. The team name, despite some protesting, would probably still be Redskins and the team itself would almost certainly have been more successful.

Yep, I think we're on the same page. When Snyder first took over, I was excited for a younger/no-nonsense type to inject some fire into the organization. It struck me as a little sleepy and outdated with John Kent Cooke running things (and even the final couple of years of his father). Clearly, I was wrong...but I'm not under the impression that we'd have re-started winning Super Bowls every 2-4 years like we did under Gibbs. And, what's even worse, in this alternate reality I'd probably be wishing for a young, brash owner to come in and be aggressive.

Right...there would have been a lot more of the status quo, for sure. And I know that many fans, myself included, would have been clamoring for changes. But even having Casserly for a longer period of time and then letting him hire Norv's replacement (I seem to recall they didn't get along, so someone would have needed to go), is light years better than Snyder making those decisions.

This is my biggest one... If John Kent Cooke had taken over and kept this team operating in a classy way. I realize that they had struggled for half-a-decade under the Cookes, but I'm also confident that patience would have led to something sustainable. The 1999 team was basically all pre-Snyder and that team was poised to be built for the long-haul and contend after a division title (albeit a pretty soft division title). With the 1999 team plus the draft picks that we were set up with, I think a more steady hand would have put us in the position that the Eagles/Giants played in the early-2000s.

I'm with you...I'd rather he just lose outright, but he's not the answer even for conservatives. So if it ultimately keeps him out of office and allows the Republican party/country to move forward, then whatever. But it'll cause quite the uproar.

I think Vivek is gaining a lot of momentum on the right, and shouldn't be overlooked with still plenty of time before the election. He's very well spoken, pushes the conservative agenda, is extremely civil and polite when engaging in these discussions, and even understands how to try to hook some of the Trumpers (pardons, etc.).

And oddly disinterested in finding companionship in anyone else, even if they are far better looking than said high school sweetheart.

Exactly! And my parents' beige carpet had to be sand, snow, grass, water, and space.

…how cool Star Wars and He-Man toy commercials were in the 1980s during Saturday morning cartoons? The sets seemed so elaborate and so much better than me using my family room carpet and coffee table. Those lucky actors got to set up the Ewok village in a real forest, Hoth in real snow, and Jabba's Palace in real sand. Anytime I was motivated enough to take all my **** outside I'd get too cold, bored, or pissed off because a lost a lightsaber down the sewer.