Redskins Cinderella story?

as much as i want it to happen it's just not going to happen.

Damn man, we got the Wicked Stepmother all up in here.

Someone's getting some coal in their stocking, you big meanie! ;)

I think the main point is it would be uplifting as hell to see them make the playoffs. Whether or not it's a "cinderella" deal, whatever. All I know is it would feel really really good, and I'd be really proud of them for it.

I don't want to get my hopes up, but here's hoping anyway.

I think the main point is it would be uplifting as hell to see them make the playoffs. Whether or not it's a "cinderella" deal, whatever. All I know is it would feel really really good, and I'd be really proud of them for it.

I don't want to get my hopes up, but here's hoping anyway.

Yeah that's my point. Whatever we want to call it, it would be great to see them overcome this disaster of a season and make the playoffs.

Something tells me the Saints are going to crap on our season. We'll both win out. :(

The Saints really don't deserve it.

The same thought crossed my mind this week too. Especially after Campbell went down. I've already been running the movie through my head (Hey... I'm a drama director, it's what I do).

I've even envisioned a scene much like the "Lt. Dan" one from Forrest Gump. Basically, after Campbell's injury, one of the team members breaks down under the weight of all they've endured, they curse the football gods and cry out to the sky, "Is that the best you've got? Come and get me! Ahahahahaha!!!! Then they make their peace with God and win the Superbowl.

I know. I have way too much time on my hands.

with a team looking like it would be taking a perfect record in the super bowl cant say it didn't cross my mind who was in the bowl last time that happened. would hope for a different result of course.

If the Redskins can make it to the playoffs...anything can happen. Remember 2005, the Redskins offense was led by Dr. Dunkenstein (Mark Brunnel). They could barely score 17 points but the defense was tremendous. They were one dropped interception by Carlos Rogers away from the NFC Championship...anything can happen.

It wouldn't be as much of a Cinderella story as it would be an equalizer. We weren't some football team with a $30 million dollar payroll an obscure coach who started 0-6 before their starting QB got knocked out and the autistic backup lead us to a playoff birth.

We were a very, very good football team who was ready to compete with the likes of Dallas and Green Bay prior to being beset by injuries and tragedy all year long and playing one of the toughest schedules across the league in the process. We were a near lock for a playoff birth before we got physically and emotionally ravaged.

We definately deserve the playoff birth, even though its a longshot at this point.

Nice post. If I were to watch this team in isolation, I would say we are not a good team. But, when you look at how the vast majority of other teams are faring this year, we look decent by comparison. We have the 15th ranked passing attack and, surprisingly, the 13th ranked rushing attack. We also have the 11th best defense. So, according to the stats we have an above-average team. We're it not for the turnovers (2nd most in the league), I think we'd be a 11-5 caliber team. Granted, we did in fact turn the ball over a lot, but that is to be expected with a young QB.

We've blown an awful lot of leads and very good teams don't do that. But, on the other hand, those teams that we were beating at the half (e.g., Dallas and GB) have been blowing a lot of other teams out of the water.

If the Redskins can make it to the playoffs...anything can happen. Remember 2005, the Redskins offense was led by Dr. Dunkenstein (Mark Brunnel). They could barely score 17 points but the defense was tremendous. They were one dropped interception by Carlos Rogers away from the NFC Championship...anything can happen.The only three differences between this team and the 2005 team is that 1) that offense didn't turn the ball over, 2) the running game was somewhat competant, and 3) the defense got timely interceptions of weak QBs.

Both the 2005 team and the 2007 team faced unbelievably tough competition week in and week out. If Todd Collins can provide Campbell or Brunell like efficiency without turning the ball over as often as Campbell does, it's very conceivable our passing game could improve to 2005 levels.

Tirico called it today on his show, even said that we deserve it.. I don't want to be the league's charity case, but if we get into the playoffs I'll get over it!