Cowboys vs Skins: Pre-Game thread

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Good news to start.


Robert Griffin III (ankle) took the first quarterback rep at Wednesday's practice.
In the first individual drill, RGIII was No. 1 and Colt McCoy No. 2. Kirk Cousins has been demoted to No. 3. This doesn't mean Griffin will get the start Monday night against the Cowboys, as coach Jay Gruden has repeatedly said RGIII has "got to be 100 percent" before he plays. We won't get an official practice status from RGIII until Thursday. We'd still consider him unlikely for Week 8. But Griffin is making strides in the right direction and may be targeting Week 9. Oct 22 - 11:27 AM

Their defense is overrated. If our defense plays well and the special teams don't have any f*ckups, this game should be close.

See, my fantasy opponent has Griffin, therefore he will start and light it up.

Don't get me wrong, I think Dallas isn't likely as good as its record would suggest, but it's hard to see how we win this game. We have our #3 QB (most likely) playing, we've just lost one of our two starting OLBs, we're already missing a starting CB and a starting nickelback, our starting NT, and we've otherwise had significant injuries elsewhere as well. All teams have injuries, but teams without significant depth (us) have a far harder time recovering from that. Also, we have committed lots of bad penalities (one of the most penalized teams in the league), and with the exception of last week, special teams has been sub-standard. We also don't generate turnovers or convert third downs particularly well.

I'd love to think that with our backs against the wall, guys will step up on a nationally televised game and put up a real fight. But Dallas will likely smell blood from the get go, and let's be honest, our Monday night games have largely been disasters as of late. To keep this game close, we will need Romo to have a crap night with some picks, and we'll have to play mistake-free football, which we really haven't done much this season.

I'd like to be optimistic that we will get a win (and how sweet would it be to bring the Cowboys crashing back to Earth in their own place). And while one never knows what will happen in a rivaly game like this, I just can't see us winning this one.

Pukes: 37
Redskins: 20

High-scoring game. Given our personnel, it will be hard for us to stop Witten and Bryant. But we might be able to slow down the bellcow Murray.

The Pokes D has played well but is hardly invincible.

Skins 34
Cowfarts 31

Let me bring this thread back to Earth with reluctance of course....
Cowboys 42
Skins 9

Redskins-Cowboys
National Television

Somehow I'm thinking this game should probably be televised during SyFy Channel's Halloween Spooktacular.

I hope the Skins surprise me though.

Let me bring this thread back to Earth with reluctance of course....
Cowboys 42
Skins 9



lets hope its this close..

Their defense is overrated. If our defense plays well and the special teams don't have any f*ckups, this game should be close.

I would take their defense over the skins defense, especially their defensive coordinator. I think the skins keep it close for a half and the Cowboys pull away in the third quarter.

lets hope its this close..


Forgot about our superhuman ability to show up for primetime games....
Cowboys 49
Skins -2