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Originally Posted by sandtrapjack

In order to get a wildcard, first and foremost....win out or one loss MIGHT do it. The Saints, Vikings and yes even the Bears are making strives and are entering December on a hot streak. Lions have a tough schedule but could still finish at 9-7. And don't look now, but here come the Eagles again.

You would have to hope for the Saints, Vikes, Bears and Eagles to stumble and fall in December while still taking care of business at home.

Out of those four teams you mentioned, we still play two of them. So we do control our destiny there. The Eagles still have to go to Irving and Seattle. The Eagles do have the talent to finish up at 8-8 and force us to win 9 games, but thats about the extent to which they are a threat.

The final team, the Saints, are a bad football team. They can beat helpless teams such as Carolina and a QBless, DTless, Jacksonville squad, but they wouldn't beat us, they can't beat Tampa, and they still have to play Philly and Chicago. They aren't going 4-1 and frankly, are unlikely to sniff .500 this year.

So while technically we still need two losses from the Lions, 4-1 makes us a virtual certainty from the playoffs. If we take care of our business at home these next two weeks, it will set up a game with the Giants in which we can tie up the season series if Philadelphia can beat them at home. So three weeks from now, we can be sitting in 2nd place in the NFC East, and the only drastic thing that has to happen is that we have to beat the Giants on the road, a team who arguably, we are better than.

[SouperMeister]

This is absolute loser talk. We should stop worrying about other teams helping the Skins back into a post-season position, and talk about why our team can't take care of its own business and finish a damn game.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SouperMeister

This is absolute loser talk. We should stop worrying about other teams helping the Skins back into a post-season position, and talk about why our team can't take care of its own business and finish a damn game.

I think we are talking about that in several other threads.

But the reality is when you get to this time of year you have to look at what other teams are doing and how that impacts the playoff scenarios.

[2BIG2BSKINNY]

Originally Posted by SouperMeister

This is absolute loser talk. We should stop worrying about other teams helping the Skins back into a post-season position, and talk about why our team can't take care of its own business and finish a damn game.

Although i agree with this comment...one can't help but think about the playoffs since we have been very competitive with the NFC elite. Green Bay won after late fumble recovery...Dallas was taken to the last drive...Tamp the same...and Seattle is a up and down team..

we need to take care of the bills and bears and then we can talk what if and playoff scenario!

[sandtrapjack]

Originally Posted by SouperMeister

This is absolute loser talk. We should stop worrying about other teams helping the Skins back into a post-season position, and talk about why our team can't take care of its own business and finish a damn game.

You are absolutely correct, you should NOT have to worry about other teams. But that is simplly not the case here. Washington has put themselves in a position now where they will have to watch other teams and hope for help outside of the organization.

If the Skins were at 8-3, 7-4 or even 6-5 then there would be more control of your own destiny. But there is a quagmire of 5-6 NFC teams trying to get a WC and the fact of the matter is of all those teams, the Redskins are the only team sitting on a 3 game skid.

This team has always been a force in December, much like the Giants have crumbled in December. Washington needs to win the month of December...period or you can go ahead and start a thread about Aprils NFL Draft.