Where is "PhillyFanInDeadSkinLand"????

[sportscurmudgeon]

Perspective folks...please.

Is it really better to have beaten Philly twice this year while you watch them win a playoff game and while the Skins are trying to figure out what to do next year - - or would it be better for the Skins to be in the playoffs and to have lost all of their NFC East divisional games?

The entire purpose of the regular season is to get into the playoffs. The teams that don't get in look for little "stat gems" to make them look good; the teams that are in the playoffs just nod and point to the playoff brackets and get on with their business.

While it's nice to brag how the Skins "own" the Eagles this year and how nothing can change that, how nice is it to "own up" to the fact that the sorry-assed Rams and Bengals own the Skins this year and nothing can change that either?

Watch the playoffs and root for whomever you want to root for. But don't disparage any of the teams in the playoffs because they are where the Skins would really love to be - - if the Skins had been good enough to get there in 2008. And that's a fact...

[WaldSkins]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Perspective folks...please.

Is it really better to have beaten Philly twice this year while you watch them win a playoff game and while the Skins are trying to figure out what to do next year - - or would it be better for the Skins to be in the playoffs and to have lost all of their NFC East divisional games?

The entire purpose of the regular season is to get into the playoffs. The teams that don't get in look for little "stat gems" to make them look good; the teams that are in the playoffs just nod and point to the playoff brackets and get on with their business.

While it's nice to brag how the Skins "own" the Eagles this year and how nothing can change that, how nice is it to "own up" to the fact that the sorry-assed Rams and Bengals own the Skins this year and nothing can change that either?

Watch the playoffs and root for whomever you want to root for. But don't disparage any of the teams in the playoffs because they are where the Skins would really love to be - - if the Skins had been good enough to get there in 2008. And that's a fact...

This thread was not created for us to "brag" how we own to the Eagles this year. It was created because the user PhillyFanInDeadSkinLand was in threads earlier in the year before the game saying how the eagles were going to show us how the earlier game was a fluke. I just created the thread to see if he would show up and take the shit he so easily dished out.

Yea we all know who beat us this year and we know we're not in the playoffs. But thanks for sticking it to all us redskins fans trying to have a little fun since "we're watching the playoffs."

[sportscurmudgeon]

Maybe that isn't why the thread was created, but it sure seemed as if more than a few folks here thought that it was important to toss out lots of meaningless "stuff". The problem with that kind of "stuff" is that it can make one look petty at the very best.

After the Skins beat the Eagles in the next-to-last game an honest assessment of the week would have been that it was a good win for a team that really needed a win AND it was a bad week because that week mathematically eliminated the Skins from playoff contention.

I really believe that real fans would be far more saddened by the second fact than they would be elated by the first one.

[WaldSkins]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Maybe that isn't why the thread was created, but it sure seemed as if more than a few folks here thought that it was important to toss out lots of meaningless "stuff". The problem with that kind of "stuff" is that it can make one look petty at the very best.

After the Skins beat the Eagles in the next-to-last game an honest assessment of the week would have been that it was a good win for a team that really needed a win AND it was a bad week because that week mathematically eliminated the Skins from playoff contention.

I really believe that real fans would be far more saddened by the second fact than they would be elated by the first one.

A lot of the fans of this team knew we were a long shot to make the playoffs after we lost to the Bengals. Yea we had a slim chance to get in but, its not like we were on the hot streaks that got us our last two trips to the playoffs. So even if we lucky got in, its not like we were going to make a run. Many fans of this team knew before the season we were a 500 team. So if your heart was broken during our "elimination" in week 16, then i don't know what team you were watching.