thanks for a great season in the midst of tragedy

[dgack]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Well, I agree with you about everything except I am just not ready to find my peace with the loss. I thought we were better than the Seahawks...I guess I was wrong and I'll come to peace with that eventually, but not today.

Still, it was a great season and I am proud of the skins, and proud to be a skins fan.

We are a better team, we just weren't today. Certainly at full strength I think we win this game.

I mean, when all is said and done, Hasselhoff did precisely what I knew he would: engineer one scoring drive and make a bunch of mistakes. Some we capitalized on, many we didn't. The defense largely did their job, and offense responded in the second half, too, on all but one or two critical plays. Hell, even our special teams far outplayed Seattle minus that glaring FG botch.

For all that talk about the explosive Seagull offense, despite the fact that we couldn't run at all, despite being manhandled by their D in the first half, we HAD this game, we just couldn't finish, and momentum swung back.

We lost this game because their speed rushing defense far outmatched our patchwork O-Line, and because of their crowd noise / home field advantage. Honestly, that's it, IMO. I think we stuffed them on D repeatedly, and I think once we got into the no-huddle and started making plays in the second half, we had them on the ropes, but the FG miss killed the tidal wave of momentum we were about to drop on those guys.

I don't feel bad at all because I know we lost due to personnel issues we simply couldn't have solved today. We simply hit a matchup that was really, really bad for us, and we nearly pulled it off anyway.

Only thing that really leaves a bad taste in my mouth today was Santana's continuing mental lapses. A few folks took exception to my assertion that ARE was playing like our WR1 this season, but I think he showed that today, while Santana had a lot of regrettable missed plays, including that backbreaker pick 6 he stood and watched.

Anyway, it was a horrible season that was redeemed and became a great one and at this point to hell with the rest of the teams in the NFC, except maybe the Pack. Pack-Jags Super Bowl wouldn't offend me too much. Or Pack-Colts.

Just not the Seagulls. Or Gints. Or Cowpokes. Or Cheatriots.

[skinsfan0201]

Agreed!!!!

[Hawks]

Leading up to this game I couldn't believe how many people predicted the Redskins to win. I think you've got a good team but only one or two of your players are dependable. Seattle can throw the ball to all its recievers. Their ground game has suffered but is gaining and the defense, well that speaks for itself. I've been a fan of the hawks for over 20 years when making the playoffs was a amazing. Now we have 5 titles and have made it to the dance. Unfortunatly the dance was rigged so we didn't get a ring. I'm proud of my team and think they and there players represent what is good about the NFL. Not much of a rap sheet on our players and when we end up with them we don't just ignore them. D Jackson is with SF because of that. Good people deserve good things.