Redskins-Packers, Best and Worst

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

Making the playoffs is not a great accomplishment. There are still chump teams in the wild card and divisional rounds who get pounded into oblivion.

We are not a Super Bowl team. There is no reason to be hyper-optimistic about a non-Super Bowl team. We were a Mason Crosby kick from whining and crying today. These gifts are not always going to come, especially as the season drags on.

I'm just happy that this coaching staff is not "deer-in-headlights" and is willing to adjust from week to week so that they have a chance to win. It means that there's hope that we'll be going to the big dance in the near future, provided that we get some good drafts and other acquisitions in. But the team is in a transition and still has kinks to work out, and it's blatantly apparent.

I beg to differ. Particularly about losing if Mason Crosby hits the field goal, because the what if game goes both ways. If Santana grabs that catch in the end zone and another on 3rd & 8, we're not even discussing the Crosby field goal. Last year and the year before, those balls weren't bouncing our way, this year they are.

Another thing, the Packers converted only 2 of 13 3rd conversions. Two. That's not luck, and it's no small feat considering we were playing the Packers, a team no one gave us a fighting chance to win against; Yards surrendered be damned, that's great defense in my book. By your Super Bowl logic, well, how many teams are really playing Super Bowl football right now, whatever that is? And don't you have to reach the Super Bowl, or at least the playoffs, before you acually know it's Super Bowl football?