Sizing up the NFC

[Skinsfanmania]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Does that stuff come in 6 packs?

no, it has to be rolled.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Skinsfanmania

no, it has to be rolled.

LOL............what ever it takes.

[TenandSix:Unacceptable]

We don't really deserve to be thinking about this stuff until we're in. Get one more game and then I'm all over this type of speculation. Until then, I'll just sing "Hail to the Redskins" drunk in the streets of Adams Morgan at 3am with my friends.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I hate to look past Dallas at this point, because if we don't win, we're probably not in, and then all this discussion will be for naught. But if we do get in, check out our chances in this NFC field:

Tampa Bay is 5-0 against the NFC South this year. They're 4-6 against everybody else. Kind of obvious that the biggest reason they're headed to the playoffs is their weak division. Plus, we totally had them on their field this year.

Seattle is 5-1 against the NFC West this year, but only 5-4 against everyone else. Again, only a solid team playing in a weak division.

The New York Giants are not the same team now that went on the six-game winning streak to jump out to a 6-2 start. We showed that by pounding them 22-10 in their house. Coughlin's career is starting to look like a poor-man's Marty Schottenheimer career. Strong regular season, wilts down the stretch and in the playoffs.

The Green Bay Packers are definitely a formidable team, and we'd have to play them in Lambeau where they hold a huge homefield advantage. But we almost beat them this season, in Green Bay. And we're built to be a cold-weather team. We can run, and we can stop the run now.

The Dallas Cowboys are the most complete team in the NFC, it seems to me. If Owens is healthy, our secondary would have its hands full. Last time we played them, Owens torched us for multiple big plays. Except now GW will have a chance to use his adjusted scheme, with Landry playing free safety. Against Dallas the first go-round, GW had not yet adjusted his secondary scheme and TO went off. I doubt he lets Owens do that again. And with these Dallas/Washington games, the teams both get up for the fight. Though a healthy Cowboys squad probably has us outmatched, we would give them a game, and I'd take our coaching staff in a battle of wits over the Dallas staff.

So we're not in the playoffs yet, but can't you see a scenario here in which we could be playing in the Super Bowl, with the way we're playing right now? One tough stat for us is the fact that since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, only one team has won the Super Bowl with a 10-6 record during the regular season (1988 49ers, and they had someone named Montana). And we're not even 10-6, we're a 9-7 team if we beat Dallas on Sunday. Only one team has even made the Super Bowl with a 9-7 record (1979 LA Rams). They lost to the Steelers. So based on history, the odds of making it at 9-7 are long indeed.

But it has happened. Let's get in, and then dare to dream!

In order for us to get to the SB we would have to win 3 straight road games in the playoffs. The odds are just too stacked against us. I honestly don't see us going to Seattle and beating them at home. I'm not sold on Seattle cause they lost to Carolina so that game is winable. But it's going to be tough cause they are real real tough to beat at home.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

In order for us to get to the SB we would have to win 3 straight road games in the playoffs. The odds are just too stacked against us. I honestly don't see us going to Seattle and beating them at home. I'm not sold on Seattle cause they lost to Carolina so that game is winable. But it's going to be tough cause they are real real tough to beat at home.

You didn't see us beating Chicago, NY, and Minnesota either.

Hey, anything can happen once you're in the playoffs.

It's not impossible, the Steelers did it just recently.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

In order for us to get to the SB we would have to win 3 straight road games in the playoffs. The odds are just too stacked against us. I honestly don't see us going to Seattle and beating them at home. I'm not sold on Seattle cause they lost to Carolina so that game is winable. But it's going to be tough cause they are real real tough to beat at home.

That's exactly why I made the point that only one team has made it to the Super Bowl with a 9-7 record, and no team has won it. Three in a row on the road will indeed be tough.

Seattle has been good at home, but they haven't really been tested much. I think it'd be a pretty even matchup.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

That's exactly why I made the point that only one team has made it to the Super Bowl with a 9-7 record, and no team has won it. Three in a row on the road will indeed be tough.

Seattle has been good at home, but they haven't really been tested much. I think it'd be a pretty even matchup.

Today, I don't feel a team's record is truly reflective of their "power". Today's 13-3 Dallas and Green Bay teams would lose to any of the 80's greats as well their own 90's counterparts. Tampa and Seattle both could've lost a couple more games this year if they had half the misfortune that we did. Our 9-7 record is not indicative of our team's skill level or balance. We can run, pass and defend both as well. Our special teams are solid. We lost the turnover/injury battle this year which reflects heavily on our regular season. We're not turning the ball over, nor our we hampered by as many injuries.

[The Zimmermans]

Green Bay is not who we want to play in the playoffs, especially in Lambeau, we aren't a cold weather team, we proved that by the way our skill players played up there in the regular season. However, I would like our chances more so in Dallas, where the rivalry aspect of the game would give us a shot. So I'd say Green Bay with HOF Brett Favre is the last team we want to play.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by The Zimmermans

Green Bay is not who we want to play in the playoffs, especially in Lambeau, we aren't a cold weather team, we proved that by the way our skill players played up there in the regular season. However, I would like our chances more so in Dallas, where the rivalry aspect of the game would give us a shot. So I'd say Green Bay with HOF Brett Favre is the last team we want to play.

So are we a warm weather team??

Teams that run the ball well and play D can play in just about any weather.