It's Dallas week!! Gobble Gobble

Thanksgiving menu at my house:

Turkey
Stuffing with sage sausage
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Bourbon sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows
Spinach and cheese squares
Green bean casserole
Corn with salsa
Cranberry relish
Waldorf salad
Rolls and butter
Cheese and crackers
Pickles and olives
Tortilla chips with salsa, nacho cheese sauce, or guacamole
Pumpkin and pecan pies with whipped cream
Coffee, iced tea, wine, and beer

Dessert: Watching a Redskins victory over the Cowboys!

Thanksgiving Dinner my spot:

Saurkraut
Thousand Island Dressing
Rye Bread
Swiss and Muenster Cheeses
Thin Sliced Cornbeef

Dessert: Pie and Skins Victory

Prison style beat down. Prescott ain't no aaron Rodgers.

Trap game... for the cowboys.

1. Prescott is no Rogers, but GBay Oline not Dallas O-Line;

2. If the Cowboys aren't up for a Skins/Cowboys game on Thanksgiving, they deserve a beat down. Division rivalries are never trap games.

3. If both teams show-up and play mistake free football, I think we beat them. These two teams are pretty evenly matched and, although neither D is a world beater, I think ours is the better one if ...

4. Tackling is going to be key for our D. Wrap folks up, take good angles, swarm to the ball. While I think it has improved as the season progressed, tackling is one of the first things to suffer when fatigue sets in - which becomes a vicious circle (bad tackling leads to more opposing first downs, more time on the field, more fatigue, worse tackling ...rinse and repeat).

Dallas has had a pretty easy schedule. Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philly and the Giants being their toughest tests outside our first game with them. They convincingly beat up on some poor teams (which is what good teams do).

They are beatable but we need to stop Elliot (see above on tackling) and figure a way to overcome their Oline advantage against our D.

This is a pretty evenly matched game (statistically speaking), and I think it is going to come down to the team that makes fewer mistakes and has the better "want to." I think we will be the team that has the better "want to" but am not convinced we will make fewer mistakes.

Y'all both save me a plate. Sounds fucking delicious.

Hope Norman can teach that right hook trick to a few teammates...

THIS!!!! He is seriously great at this and should be teaching it to the entire secondary!

If we beat the Cowboys I'm probably going to have to go to the hospital for an erection lasting longer than 4 hours.

:lol:

Here are some quotes to inspire you:

"...So one time in a meeting during Dallas week, all of a sudden we heard a GONG, ... and here came George (Allen), who was wearing his karate garb .... The whole locker room went crazy. We were shouting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE...' It was electric. He talked about Dallas week and how he wanted to fly to Dallas and meet Tom Landry at midfield and fight him, and if he could beat Landry, we would win. ....Now he had these boards with him, and these other guys were holding the boards. He was going to break two boards with his hands, and two others with his feet, and if he could break those boards, we were going to beat Dallas. The place was going nuts, chanting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE!' Now he started to warm up and was making all kinds of noises and taking deep breaths. It was unbelievable. All of a sudden he screamed, came down, and broke the two boards with his hands and the other two with his feet, and the place went nuts! ..."

- Rusty Tillman, from Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins by Thom Loverro


"George Allen never used to say 'the Dallas Cowboys', it was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' It's the Cowboys' uniform. It strikes hate and loathing in my mind, almost in a Pavlovian sense."

-John Wilbur


"When you sign with Washington, you sign a contract to hate the Cowboys."

-Charles Mann


"If you grow up in metro Washington, you grow up a diehard Redskins fan. But if you hate your parents, you grow up a Cowboys fan."

-Jim Lachey


"We loved to play them. It was always the perfect setting - Monday Night, Thanksgiving Day, a 4 o'clock start, RFK. Those kinds of games still give me goose bumps."

- Ken Houston


"I wanted to just... put his lights out ....because, you know, ...Dallas sucks..."

- Dexter Manley, referring to Danny White whom he knocked out of the first half of the 1982 NFC Championship game.


"It showed our mindset. We honestly felt like we were going into battle."

-Neal Olkewicz, describing the team wearing battle fatigues and black combat boots as they arrived at Dallas International Airport on Dec 10, 1983, dominating the Dallas television news that night. The previous matchup, Redskins had squandered a 23-3 lead to lose 31-30. Redskins record at Dallas was 1-9 over the past ten years. Both teams were 12-2, and the #1 seed for the playoffs was on the line. The following afternoon, the Redskins dominated the game, winning 31-10.


"You just despised that team. It was genuine... I despise them even more now, because they are so flamboyant."

- Joe Jacoby, 1996


"Because of my position, I'm not supposed to think that way. But in the back of my mind, in my heart, I never want to see them win. It's just inbred in my blood since I was a Redskin. I bleed burgundy and gold. I will always have that in my soul - to hate the silver and blue."

- Mark May, TV network analyst, 1996


"I mean, there wasn't a lot of hope for that one, yet we found out, you know, we found a way to win that game, AGAINST our rival, at their place, on Monday night, and uh, the locker room was just -- it was just unbelievable."

-Mark Brunell, Sept. 2005


"I think I love it so much because they talk so much trash, they think they run us. They think they own us. I'm ready. We take little things like that and it adds to our fire. Our fire will start out small, but by game time, it will be blazing and ready to go."

- Sean Taylor, Dec 17, 2005, discussing the Redskins/Cowboys rivalry the day before the Redskins 35-7 blowout of Dallas.


"**** Dallas"

- Chris Cooley, as autographed on one of his photos on his site

He has a tendency to win games.

that would be the one they want to break him of.

I want more of this:

The line continues to improve [though left guard Shawn Lauvao had some issues Sunday], and one thing it did best was encourage Kelley. He lost three yards on two occasions in the first half. “My line kept me up, like, ‘We’re gonna get it,’” Kelley said. “They kept building me up when I was like, ‘things aren’t working like I thought it would.’ They were like, ‘Strap it up, hold onto the ball, and let’s go.’” Eventually, they went.

Impact of DeSean Jackson, OL's encouraging words to Rob Kelley - Washington Redskins Blog- ESPN (http://www.espn.com/blog/washington-redskins/post/_/id/28635/impact-of-desean-jackson-ols-encouraging-words-to-rob-kelley)

Strap it up, boys ...and ram it down their f'ing throats.

1. Prescott is no Rogers, but GBay Oline not Dallas O-Line;

2. If the Cowboys aren't up for a Skins/Cowboys game on Thanksgiving, they deserve a beat down. Division rivalries are never trap games.

3. If both teams show-up and play mistake free football, I think we beat them. These two teams are pretty evenly matched and, although neither D is a world beater, I think ours is the better one if ...

4. Tackling is going to be key for our D. Wrap folks up, take good angles, swarm to the ball. While I think it has improved as the season progressed, tackling is one of the first things to suffer when fatigue sets in - which becomes a vicious circle (bad tackling leads to more opposing first downs, more time on the field, more fatigue, worse tackling ...rinse and repeat).

Dallas has had a pretty easy schedule. Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philly and the Giants being their toughest tests outside our first game with them. They convincingly beat up on some poor teams (which is what good teams do).

They are beatable but we need to stop Elliot (see above on tackling) and figure a way to overcome their Oline advantage against our D.

This is a pretty evenly matched game (statistically speaking), and I think it is going to come down to the team that makes fewer mistakes and has the better "want to." I think we will be the team that has the better "want to" but am not convinced we will make fewer mistakes.

Good point. I'm really starting to think playing Cravens at SS wouldn't be such a bad idea. That way you have him and Mason Foster on the field at the same time. Put your best tacklers on the field against a tough running team. This might be my Ignorant Fan's Key to the Game this week.

On the other hand, I think Barry put Cravens at the nickel position sometimes, another way to have Foster and him on the field at the same time. In that personnel Ihenacho would have the edge over Whitner IMO.

Man, the #1 key to the game is stopping Zeke period. Load the box and like Schneed said punch, hit this Oline and Zeke in the mouth.