12th's 5 Reasons Why The Skins Beat N.E.

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Homerism or not, New England has seven wins this season. Five of which were against the bottom five total defenses in the league. If they think Washington will be a pushover, they're sadly mistaken.

Defensive ranks for those teams may be overblown. After all, they had to play the Pats. That can't help your stats.

My feeling with the Pats right now is that they haven't been the defensive team that they could be. The allowed 28 points to Miami - 21 after Ronnie "the Dolphins only offensive weapon" Brown was lost for the game (and season). Was the defense already celebrating the victory? If that's the case, it speaks volumes to their focus. Given that the media is already hyping next week's Pats/Colts game, we may be playing out as a classic "trap game".

I don't think it will happen, though I know it can.

[chris66]

If your Redskins are in it by halftime and manage to cover the spread. You guys will be the first team to do this and should consider this a moral victory.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Huh??? So GW has nothing to do with it? Where would we be w/out GW's defense this year?

Who coaches the team Gibbs or Williams? Who hired Williams? I know the offense isn't up to par yet, but we do have an offense, we are not only a defense team.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by BrudLee

Defensive ranks for those teams may be overblown. After all, they had to play the Pats. That can't help your stats.

Washington has already faced some ridiculous passing attacks, and held them im check for the most part. I just don't see the Pats running away with this one unless the O line play is as poor as it was last week, and the offense is completely unable to sustain drives... so I guess I'm optimistic about the first half...

[freddyg12]

Tremendous post & living up to your name 12th, truly the post of the 12th man. Good points indeed.

I feel myself gradually ascending or descending (not sure which is accurate) into homerism w/each visit to the warpath this week. Maybe it's because there is an unusual lack of homerism this week.

I really think 12th has good points, we are going to give Brady fits. He'll hit some stuff, but if we can stuff the run, GW will mix up coverages & force Brady to audible like he's never had to. I expect this to be a mean game.

I'm concerned about our O, like everyone else is, but it occurred to me that maybe the AZ game was our Oakland game of 05. After that mess we came back & had a power running game the rest of the year & went on a roll. Maybe from here out our Offense gets a wake up call & we become a pass first team. It's obvious that's what these O linemen can do.

Like 12th said, look for a real game plan from AS. Gibbs has already admitted this week that the plan was too conservative on sunday, so that's a sign that he may be willing to step aside some from the planning & let Al take it on his own more. I thought that happened after the Giants game as we came out in Detroit passing to set up the run. Look for that on sunday.

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by chris66

If your Redskins are in it by halftime and manage to cover the spread. You guys will be the first team to do this and should consider this a moral victory.

Welcome to the board, chris66. You can change your avatar to match the Pats if you like - and we look forward to your comments this week.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by chris66

If your Redskins are in it by halftime and manage to cover the spread. You guys will be the first team to do this and should consider this a moral victory.

First of all, welcome... and change your avatar.

Second of all, that arrogance suits you very well. You're exactly what I'd expect a Pats fan to act like.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by chris66

If your Redskins are in it by halftime and manage to cover the spread. You guys will be the first team to do this and should consider this a moral victory.

Sorry Chris, we're past moral victories here in D.C. I remember when we played Indy a couple of seasons ago. It was the same thing. We had them at the half and let them off the hook.

Like I said, if nothing else happens, the Pats will get hit this week. Put that in your over/under.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

IF you look at it this way the Pats schedule of teams they beat are 17-28 (6-1 have come from the Cowboys) So maybe it not the Pats being so dominant its just they havent played anyone.

I am saying it if the Cowboys had a pass defense at all they would have beaten the Pats.

The Pats are like LSU before they played Florida and Kentucky and Auburn. The Redskins defense will slow them down.

[Schneed10]

I don't see any logical explanation for why/how we'll beat New England. Sure it's possible. But if you're going to call it likely, you're not subscribing to the common sense newsletter, that's for sure.

[saden1]

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[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I don't see any logical explanation for why/how we'll beat New England. Sure it's possible. But if you're going to call it likely, you're not subscribing to the common sense newsletter, that's for sure.

Can I use that as my next sig?

[chris66]

Originally Posted by BrudLee

Welcome to the board, chris66. You can change your avatar to match the Pats if you like - and we look forward to your comments this week.

Thanks man I appreciate that. It should be a good game this Sunday. unfortunately your offense needs to figure out how to get first downs or your D will be wiped out by halftime.

I see a lot of posters knocking Miami on this board, but they were the only team so far to limit the pats to 51 offensive possessions. Usually they are in the high 60's

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I don't see any logical explanation for why/how we'll beat New England. Sure it's possible. But if you're going to call it likely, you're not subscribing to the common sense newsletter, that's for sure.

Common sense? Whoa, wait a minute? How does logic fit into this? I really hate to sound cliche, but the game is won between the lines.

If we're going off stats, that's one thing. But the Skins are 4-2, they are a professional football team. They do boast one of the best defenses in football. And it's quite possible, they could have a chip on their shoulder this week. As far as I'm concerned that's as logical as any argument anyone could possilby post.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Do we really have a 5 game win streak over the Pats like I heard last night?