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What Redskins plays/moments would make up your top 10 plays of the last 10 years? I'm guessing both Santana's TD catch against the Cowboys and Sean Taylor's leap into the end zone against the Eagles that same year would probably be in everyone's lists. But what else would be up there in your eyes? I'm actually thinking about making a video if possible...so throw some ideas out at me.

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Aside from what you already mentioned here are some other plays from the last couple of years that have stood out to me...

Clinton Portis' first carry as a Redskin.

Sean Taylor as a rookie beating out Randy Moss for a jump ball one-on-one.

Sean Taylor as a rookie manhandling TO.

Will Allen falling all over himself while Santana makes an excellent adjustment on a bad throw by Patrick Ramsey en route to another TD against the Giants in '05.

Chris Cooley's long TD vs. the Panthers in '06 on a play called by Jason Campbell.

Santana's OT touchdown against the Jags in '06.

The Troy Vincent blocked field goal against Dallas in '06.

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Portis's first carry.

Moss's OT TD against Jacksonville in 2006.

Monday Night Miracle.

Taylor's consecutive fumble recoveries for touchdowns in 2005.

The Hand of God 90 seconds.

Taylor's game against the Panthers in 2006.

Good idea for a thread, especially if you can get this video to happen.

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^ The Lavar INT (coupled with Rod Gardner's play at the end of that same game) was pretty much the only play/moment before Gibbs II that I could think of lol...there's got to be some other candidates from those years, though.

As for exceptional games/consecutive games, I thought of Portis' 5-game stretch at the end of 2005, and Collins' 4-game stretch at the end of 2007.

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Honestly, I'd have to bring up the year we were deepest in the playoffs in this time span.

Remember back in 2000, when we were up 13-0 on Tampa Bay? That was an awesome feeling like we could actually be a winning team. The Brian Mitchell return for a TD, the DG pick, just nice memories.

Then we had the fubmbled snap on the FG that we shoulda made :doh:

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Honestly, I'd have to bring up the year we were deepest in the playoffs in this time span.

Remember back in 2000, when we were up 13-0 on Tampa Bay? That was an awesome feeling like we could actually be a winning team. The Brian Mitchell return for a TD, the DG pick, just nice memories.

Then we had the fubmbled snap on the FG that we shoulda made :doh:

What about Brad Johnson throwing for 471 yards against SF and getting us into the playoffs in 1999?

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Honestly, I'd have to bring up the year we were deepest in the playoffs in this time span.

Remember back in 2000, when we were up 13-0 on Tampa Bay? That was an awesome feeling like we could actually be a winning team. The Brian Mitchell return for a TD, the DG pick, just nice memories.

Then we had the fubmbled snap on the FG that we shoulda made :doh:

I still blame Nolan's soft D for that loss.

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What about Brad Johnson throwing for 471 yards against SF and getting us into the playoffs in 1999?

Hey 1999 was a beautiful year, what about the perennial bust in Westbrook putting up 1000 yards? And even Albert Connell had a 1000 yard season. Its the last time I can remember us being an actually good offense.

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Well, since we are talking about 10 plays over 10 years, we can probably start by attempting to take a play from each year, and then doubling up on the seasons where we draw a blank. Therefore:

1999: Larry Centers TD in OT vs SF to clinch the NFC East Title

2000: Deion's punt return in OT to set up the GWFG vs. Tampa

2001: Lavar's INT vs Carolina to start the comeback that saved us from 0-6

2002: ROTFLMAO

2003: ROTFLMAO

2004: Clinton's opening day TD vs Tampa

2005: Santana's second TD vs. Dallas; Taylor's fumble return vs Tampa

2006: Santana's TD in OT vs Jags; Vincent/Taylor combo vs Dallas

2007: Tough to pick a single play from this season too (Collins to Yoder? I dunno)

2008: JC's bomb to NO in Game 2; Santana's punt return vs. Detroit

Summary: Santana wins!

Edit comment: Its actually pretty tough not to include a good number of the plays during that 2005 late-season run. Antonio Brown's return vs Arizona, Cooley's TD right before the half vs Dallas, Ramsey to Moss vs NYG, CP's TD vs Philly.

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Hey 1999 was a beautiful year, what about the perennial bust in Westbrook putting up 1000 yards? And even Albert Connell had a 1000 yard season. Its the last time I can remember us being an actually good offense.

Yeah that was the last time we had a consistently good offense. 10 years ago LOL. I couldn't believe Snyder dispatched that away after years of mediocrity. We finally had something and then he ripped it apart in one fell swoop. When he fired Turner we were still in the playoff hunt. Then we let Brad Johnson get away. We had a stable QB and then there came the line of horrible starting QBs soon to follow. smh.

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Yeah that was the last time we had a consistently good offense. 10 years ago LOL. I couldn't believe Snyder dispatched that away after years of mediocrity. We finally had something and then he ripped it apart in one fell swoop. When he fired Turner we were still in the playoff hunt. Then we let Brad Johnson get away. We had a stable QB and then there came the line of horrible starting QBs soon to follow. smh.

In Snyder's defense though, we were used to having a horrible defense during the Norv era, and we've basically now replaced having a good offense with having a good defense. There's an old saying that "defense wins championships, but offense gets the glory"

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10 Todd Pinkston Stops Running Route Scared of Sean Taylor

9 Lavar Icing Aikman

8 Cooley TD Catch Against Philly on 4th down Before Half

7 Sellars Runns over Dawkins

6 CP First Carry as a Skin

5 Cooley Albright Samuels Wear 21 at probowl walk out together

4 Joe Gibbs Returns

3 Hand of God

2 ST Dives into Endzone against Philly

1 Tanas 2nd TD Vs Dallas

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In Snyder's defense though, we were used to having a horrible defense during the Norv era, and we've basically now replaced having a good offense with having a good defense. There's an old saying that "defense wins championships, but offense gets the glory"

You are right but we didn't have to give up that offense to get the defense.

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