The "I'm Not Freaking Out" Thread

I am still positive. I thought going into these last two games that they would be lucky to get one of them. They ended up outplaying Denver and KC, but that and 50 cents as they say. I think the skins have shown the league that they are a good team. They just need to take care of business in the games they should win and they will be okay. Ie: 49ers...get to 4-2 next sunday and the ship is headed in the right direction again.

I agree OUR skins are just getting started. Hell we have dominated the opposition in near bout every catagory every week. we just have to hold on to the ball and not commit the penalties. we have dominated time of posession but you wouldnt know that with the points we have put up, so with that said we have to score when we have the ball for that long!!

I agree OUR skins are just getting started. Hell we have dominated the opposition in near bout every catagory every week. we just have to hold on to the ball and not commit the penalties. we have dominated time of posession but you wouldnt know that with the points we have put up, so with that said we have to score when we have the ball for that long!!

Keeping the offense on for a long period of time will help the "ailing" defense.

The only thing left that we need to dominate is the score!

Every time we loose a game the doubters come out, but it's good to see there are some who still have faith, and I guess that's what we call being a true Redskin fan.

I didn't know blind faith was required to be considered a true Redskins fan.

Just glanced over at extremekins--the number of "sky is falling" threads is just AMAZING to me. An NFL season is 16 games. You look at your schedule, and you see how you can likely get the wins you need. My god, we're 3-2 with SF at home on deck. My guess is we'll likely be 4-2 after next week, and we'll see a lot of "we're gonna win it all" threads. COme on. You have to have an even keel here. Yes, the loses suck, and especially when we see that they were games we could have won. But there are signs here of a good offense. And, yes, our D has slipped in the last two. But we played two excellent offenses, on the road (at mile high and Arrow head, no less)--unless you're the 72 Fins, you're going to lose some games.

Here's the solution--win the games you should, pull out a few close ones on the road, and get better every week. Then, come December, lets see where we stand. The sky is not falling. Williams is still a good coordinator. Brunnell is still a good QB. Samules is still a good LT. Etc. What wins games is error free, tough, smart football. We've got the players and coaches to do it, but we are not there yet. BUt I am optimistic.

extremely positive... the offense is clicking and will only get better. the defense is stopping the run (the most single most important statistic on D). mental errors and turnovers are things that can be corrected.

i can't believe the sky is falling for some of these fans- it's the first time in a while where we're not totally deficient in one aspect of the game. The last two losses have been dominated by the skins- the most important numbers (scoreboard) haven't gone our way, but how can anybody that watches football NOT see the difference between the team this season and ones from the past decade?

Here's some excerpts from chiefs fans after the game:

"This Washington team is the toughest group I have seen come in to Arrowhead in a long time. This game should give all of us Chiefs fans some added confidence in what our team can do down the stretch."

"The Redskins should go deep into the playoffs if they keep playing like that."

"They gave us a run for our money in our house. On a neutral site, they might get us."

OK, you don't want their respect? How about these from the broncos' messageboards last weekend:

"Washington's offensive line should get a gameball, even though they lost"

"Really was surprised how well Washington's d-line stiffled the Broncos!"

I have no problem with guys critiquing the team- we're far from perfect and have a long way to go before we're "elite." I also respect the more critical posters we have on the forum who post here week to week. What I do NOT respect are the posters that come around criticizing only after losses- you know who you are. You're the same ones who were calling for Gibbs' head after he benched ramsey. You also disappeared from the board after Brunell started rolling up the wins. And now that we've lossed to two solid football teams consecutively, you've popped back up to call out the coaching staff... only this week, the target is GW- who has been the freakin' man in DC.

Again, I'm not talking about the "regulars" who have questioned the brunell move and arrington situation- I'm calling out all the posters who disappeared during the wins and were just itching for a reason to complain about something.

It's funny how the board is so busy after a loss, but relatively quiet after a win.

Just goes to show the haters love it when things are going bad.

well, that or we're all too busy drinking and celebrating after a win, and after a loss, we're eating comfort food and sittin in our dark man-caves bitching to our cyber-buddies. lol

No offense to the guys who run Extremeskins, this is certainly not their fault, but their board has become overun with fair weather, casual fans who have nothing valuable to contribute other than comical knee jerk reactions.

I really hope for their sake they can get a handle on things. It's getting really ugly over there.

I dont even go over there. I have once or twice, but not in a long time. It takes too long to find substance. The fact that they have the authority and audacity to alienate on the "official" site of the skins is beyond me, and infuriates me.

A win next week will make me feel alot better. If were 4-2, 6 games in, I"ll be very happy. Still, the last two weeks we statsitaclly and overlal just dominated games and lost. You cant have that.