you know how they say....
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Topic: Football
... you know how they say that teams find a way to win? Well, the Redskins ALWAYS find a way to lose. That's the frustrating thing about being a Redskins fan. We have great players. We have an incredible defense. One of our probowl linebackers has even been out most of the season, but our defense always keeps us in the game. The frustrating thing is that we also have good players on offense, but because of just one or two bone-headed throws, bad officiating, or bad play-calling we always botch it. Patrich Ramsey has an incredible arm, he's tough, and one day he will be a great QB. People are so quick to throw him under the bus for the interception that he threw in the end zone last night, but that wasn't entirely his fault. The smart play there should have been to call a run play, but for some reason Gibbs (or his senile offensive coordinator) called pass. Hell, I don't know, Ramsey may have changed the play anyway. It was so frustrating. They have less than 2 minutes left, are on the ~25 yard line, with 2 timeouts... score is 14-17 and you're playing the Eagles. What the hell do you THINK you'd do? Gee, I think that I'd try to take as much time off the clock as possible and get the ball in the end zone. They could have even kicked a field goal to tie the game and send it into OT. Ugh. But no, let's throw to the TE in the end zone. No, Patsy never throws a TD pass to Cooley. Doh! Hell, I could have picked that throw off myself!!! I can be pissed off that the Skins lost that game, and I will be bitter until next season about the way this one has gone, BUT from what I've seen over the past 3 or 4 weeks is that this team is finally coming together. I think that it's entirely possible for them to win their last 3 games! They'd better at least beat the Cowboys. God I hate the Cowboys. At any rate, the Redskins are looking a lot better, and although I was hoping for a miracle during Gibbs' first year back, I suppose I can be happy with this latter part of the season. Really, 3 of the last 4 games they've played have been against TOUGH teams (2 being the Eagles, one being the Steelers... both 12-1 teams!!) and they've hung in there against those opponents... so although they didn't win those games, they gave a damn good effort... and if you even look at the stats from the game, it was pretty evenly matched, and if anything was in the Redskin's favor, except for all of the ridiculous penalties.

1st Downs
Eagles 15 Redskins 19

Efficiency
3rd Down Eagles 3-13 (23%) Redskins 5-16 (31%)
4th Down Eagles 0-0 (0%) Redskins 0-1 (0%)
Red Zone Eagles 2-4 (50%) Redskins 2-2 (100%)
Goal-To-Go Eagles 2-4 (50%)Redskins 2-2 (100%)

Total Yards
Eagles 312 Redskins 312

Offensive Plays
Eagles 57 Redskins 74

Passing Yards
Eagles 245 Redskins 224

Comp-Att (%)
Eagles 21-38 (55%) Redskins 29-46 (63%)

Rushing Yards
Eagles 67 Redskins 88

Turnovers
Eagles 2 Redskins 1

Fumbles lost
Eagles 1 Redskins 0

Interceptions thrown
Eagles 1 Redskins 1

HERE is where we got hurt:
Penalties-yards
Eagles 5-41 Redskins 12-137 Of course about 1/3 - 1/2 of those yards all came off of the BS pass interference call on Sean Taylor


Time of possession

Eagles 26:03 Redskins 33:57


If you ask me, everything was pretty much in the Skins favor, except for the penalties. *shrug*

Such is life. We'll beat the hell out of the 49ers next week, at least.