SB17

I can’t even keep up with my original post! I think I’m missing some players. Will have to deal with it tonight when I’m not at work.

Abandon 1st and 10 off-tackle sweeps and start playing football!

Both of those clips brought tears to my eyes - thanks. I see people here on ES who say they hate NYG or Philly more than Dallas. I get it, but for me, there is no team that I hate more than Dallas. They are the most hyped, get all kinds of accolades, and are generally the most worshipped team around … and I just hate them.

Montez Sweat is now on the list, as of December 8.

Or, in the worst case scenario, they might need to amputate at the neck, at which point, his season and probably his career would be over. (that’s what I used to tell my kids sometimes when they got hurt: “We’ll have to amputate at the neck!”)

I think you’re missing: - Rob Gronkowski (DNP) - Antonio Brown (DNP) - Richard Sherman (DNP) 🙂

It would be quite a stretch for anyone out there who is reading this to say that they didn’t get nervous and have lots of doubts every time Hop went out on the field to kick a field goal or an extra point. The guy inspired absolutely no confidence that he could make a field goal from anywhere on the field.

It used to piss me off that ex-Cowgirls players were on the broadcast team for our games (still does, actually). Now I feel sorry for them. This team perpetually sucks.

fyi, there actually was (at least) one other game played against the Bills in Buffalo which deserves little, if any, mention but is worth bringing up here in this thread. I can only give an approximate year, which was around 1972 or 1973. It was a pre-season game (hence not deserving of any real mention), and the Bills had just completed the construction of a new stadium (I believe where they still play today). This was the inaugural game for that stadium. The Redskins won the coin toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff. Herb Mulkey (a seldom used WR but a return specialist for Washington) took the kickoff and christened the new stadium with a 100+ (?) yard return for a touchdown. As I recall, Washington won that game. Maybe someone with access to that piece of history can look up the exact details.

The guy (TH) reminds me of Gus Frerotte for some reason. Does anyone think that’s a fair comparison?

Keep 2 QBs and have Logan Thomas as a “Plan C” QB.

Not disagreeing at all that we could use a better kicker. Was trying to say that I don’t think Nordin is that player (as some in last week’s game day thread were suggesting).

Watching the New England-Philadelphia game at the moment. By the end of the 1st quarter, New England’s kicker (Nordin) had missed a field goal and a PAT. This was the guy who a lot in last week’s game day thread were saying Washington should sign when the Patriots’ regular kicker returns. Be careful what you ask for!!

Tell me that they would have gone for it on 4th and 1 from the 40-yard (?) line, if this had been the regular season.

Thanks (added). Now I’m thinking I should have put the most recent additions at the top of the list… This is what happens when you only start a new thread once every 10 years. 🙄

This is informational - not political. RB Wendell Smallwood (Dec. 17) DE Daniel Wise (Dec. 17) QB Taylor Heinicke (Dec. 17) S Kam Curl (Dec. 16) C Keith Ismael (Dec. 16) C Tyler Larsen (Dec. 16) CB Troy Apke (Dec. 15) QB Kyle Allen (Dec. 15) LB Milo Eifler (Dec. 15) S Darrick Forrest (Dec. 15) DT Matt Ioannidis (Dec. 15) T Cornelius Lucas (Dec. 15) TE Sammis Reyes (Dec. 15) WR Cam Sims (Dec. 15) DT Jonathan Allen (Dec. 13) LB David Mayo (Dec. 13) DE Casey Toohill (Dec. 12) DE James Smith-Williams (Dec. 11) CB Darryl Roberts (Dec. 11) DE Montez Sweat (12/8) DT Daron Payne (Aug. 1) OT David Sharpe (July 31) RG Brandon Scherff (July 31) DL Matt Ionnidis (July 29) DB Chris Miller (July 29) WR Curtis Samuel (July 29) T Cornelius Lucas (July 27)

SB18 was devastating (for me, anyway), but I’m going to cut them a little bit of slack for being full of themselves: They lost 2 regular-season games that year by a combined total of 2 points!! Both were one-point losses (to Dallas and to Green Bay - both on MNF, btw). They had the most prolific offense in the league (set the record for the most points in a regular season). They were defending Super Biwl champions. Yeah, they thought they were good - because they were! Then they got smoked by the Raiders. It was horrible. They looked like they were having fun on that show. Thanks for the video!

Thanks @TrancesWithWolves for the video. I’m not buying that Darryl Green had “too good of a start” as Cefalo (?) said. The replay showed that he just beat Woodson from the get-go, but we can’t tell more than that, since the slo-mo didn’t include the audio. The live shot looked like a legit start to me.

I see what a lot of posters are saying that the NYG have owned us for quite some time now, and while I think we will sweep them this year, I can understand that might not be the case. Here’s the deal for me, though: Any team that has Jason Garrett as a head/assistant coach is going to get “vanilla”, which is why I loved it when Jerry Jones would keep extending him as the head coach in Dallas (hated to see that mediocrity come to an end. I don’t know what to think about McCarthy ...). Maybe NYG beats us both times this season, but against the rest of the NFL, it seems that a lot of opponents know how to beat a Garrett-run offense. He’ll have Barkley back and healthy this season, and they’ve certainly added to their offense, but the bottom line is that Garrett is still the OC, and when he was in Dallas running things, they should have been getting deluxe chocolate out of some of those teams and instead they got vanilla.

Right after our bye week, too.

Does anyone besides me see shades of Gus Frerotte in Taylor Heinecke?

I don’t live in the DC/MD/VA area any more, and I don’t get the full team coverage anymore so I may have missed something, but where did Antonio Gandy-Golden go? Injured? If not, does he dress for games?

Given the short week and the fact that every year Dallas (and Detroit) never have to travel that week for their games, it's nothing short of favoritism.

Didn’t the Redskins just recently sign a DE to a 3-yr. $21m contract? Did Ioannidis just become chopped liver with this pick? Ioannidis isn’t even listed among the front 7. I don’t get it. I realize that hindsight is 20/20, but was he ever worth that kind of money, even without Sweat?

Why did the game/player database have to go?