Peyton Manning or RGIII your choice

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by mooby

Let me see if I can help pull it into total insanity here...

Honestly I think several people here have this misconception that you need to be the best team in the NFL with absolutely no holes in order to win the SB, when that's not often the case. Look at the Giants. Before the season if you had asked me I'd have said there's no way the Giants make the SB, let alone win it. But all they did was get hot at the right time and everything came together to make it happen for them. Same as it did 4 years ago.

If we have an elite qb like Manning that can run the offense smoothly and put up points, and our opportunistic defense can fix a couple things, I see no reason as to why we couldn't go on a playoff run. You just have to be hot and have everything come together at just the right time. Nobody was willing to give the Giants a chance until they were in the SB, and then the only reason people were saying they have a chance to win was because of their past history against the Pats.

Someone here (sorry, can't remember who) said that when you have an elite qb in place, it makes a lot of those other problems "disappear." I think that's definitely true. If Manning were here, considering the run game we could provide him and our solid yet unspectacular defense, I could easily see 10-6 or somewhere around there giving us the juice to get into the playoffs, and set us up for a run. Maybe not a SB run, but honestly in the NFL anything can happen.

I dig your optimism mooby. Our defense, at its best, is nothing like the best defenses in the league, including the Giants'. That defense is pretty inconsistent over the course of an entire season but when they start to click they're easily a top 3 defense. At our very, very best we might break the top 10...but it's a stretch.

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by The Goat

I dig your optimism mooby. Our defense, at its best, is nothing like the best defenses in the league, including the Giants'. That defense is pretty inconsistent over the course of an entire season but when they start to click they're easily a top 3 defense. At our very, very best we might break the top 10...but it's a stretch.

I'm glad you say that because it's better then the Patriots who had I think the worst or close to it yardage wise. People just couldn't score on them. Teams kinda had the same problem with the Skins.

I know it's going to kill you but lets look at the bright side.... our offense was good enough to beat the Giants twice and our defense kept Eli in check in both games we played.

I'll say it again. It's amazing how far apart this fan base is on how close the team is to being a winner.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

I'm glad you say that because it's better then the Patriots who had I think the worst or close to it yardage wise. People just couldn't score on them. Teams kinda had the same problem with the Skins.

I know it's going to kill you but lets look at the bright side.... our offense was good enough to beat the Giants twice and our defense kept Eli in check in both games we played.

I'll say it again. It's amazing how far apart this fan base is on how close the team is to being a winner.

I hope your optimism is correct but history tells me you are wrong.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by mredskins

I hope your optimism is correct but history tells me you are wrong.

New history is made every day. How many teams have won 2 SB's in the manner the Giants did? Against the same team, in similar situations (Giants struggling regular season, barely making the playoffs, Pats cruising through regular season, Giants win SB on strength of good defense and two min drill resulting in td (along with one amazing catch made in each seperate two min drill by a guy who fills a depth role.)

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by mooby

New history is made every day. How many teams have won 2 SB's in the manner the Giants did? Against the same team, in similar situations (Giants struggling regular season, barely making the playoffs, Pats cruising through regular season, Giants win SB on strength of good defense and two min drill resulting in td (along with one amazing catch made in each seperate two min drill by a guy who fills a depth role.)

You guys probably play the lottery and scratch off tickets every day too.


"Yeah yeah there was this guy in here two weeks ah maybe three just a regular guy you know and he got one of those Pot O Gold scratch off's and and he won $1000 bucks, that so can be me too!"

Yet 700 other people between 2 or three weeks ago since that guy won has lost at the Pot O Gold scratch off ticket.

This why some guys get so mad on Sunday when the real Redskins show up and stink the place up. "But but in my mind they are Super Bowl Contenders."