Skins skin Niners
52-17 quite a thumping. Coaches allowed Arrington to play. He runs very fast and hits hard, producing visually exciting impact. However, he slipped out of position at least three times that I saw, and I didn't get to review the game films. The coaches will be upbraiding him, while of course allowing him to play in the upcoming contest against the Giants. The Skins must win this match against their divisional rival.
The obvious lesson of today's game was that the Niners truly are one of the worst teams in professional football, and the Skins are becoming well-coached, so that they crush those who ought to be crushed.
The secondary lesson is that QB Brunell has continued to perform quite spectacularly. He throws with accuracy, speed, and analytical insight.
Finally, Coach "Joe" Gibbs calls, or has assistants who call, a very smart game, usually achieving one-step-aheadness.
Because football is the only sport that resembles foreign policy of the grand game sort, it is a long but permitted segue to note that the United States play callers at the present time are tragically one step behind. Wilkerson, Scowcroft, and others are speaking out because they fear what the Administration will do in its remaining three years, given that the talent level will continue to decrease and the fundamental strategies are terribly wrong-headed.
Boo.....Booo!!!! I'm a Niners fan.....we of the once-great tradition that took five Super Bowls in 15 years. How sad it is...
October 23, 2005 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a morning of steel grey sunshine settling over Washington, the incredibly powerful but surprisingly sleepy government center of the richest nation on earth. The sun is working to break the chill, but it's not enough. A lone figure walks the street, out the door of his expensive downton apartment, bag slung over his shoulder he blows warm air into his hands and gets ready to face the chill. As he walks he glances to his left and sees a Metrobus sitting idling, just killing time. A large middle aged black man is kicking back in the seat, with the Washington Post spread out over the steering wheel. He wears the dark blue uniform of a bus driver, save for one thing. A burgundy and gold knit hat. The businessman glances at him, glances up at the hat, and just smiles. The bus driver smiles back with an almost imperceptible nod.
They have spoken not a word, but across every cultural divide that the city can throw up, they've shared a bond, and they both know exactly what it means.
Joe Gibbs is back, and the Redskins will be champions again.
October 23, 2005 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
The racist skins beat a bad team. Big deal. If you needed this game to tell you the 49ers were bad, you don't know much about football. I've been a 49ers fan for 20 years, and I could have told you before the season they were one of the worst teams. The skins should have about the same record as the 49ers. They should have lost to the seahawks, cowboys, and bears. They won't make the playoffs.
October 23, 2005 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you feel the love in the room? Must be football season.....
I think the Bush Administration could be most compared to the Baltimore Ravens. They are a team of thugs; they act like they are above the law, on and off the field. Ray Lewis spends more "football capital" than he really has.
I'm a Browns fan, I have all the respect in the world for Ravens fans....I lost my team, too, and you can't help what they give you back. :)
I think the Redskins' reference is interesting, considering Dan Snyder's colourful history with this team.
October 24, 2005 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
October 24, 2005 7:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
If they run well it compliments the D and Brunnel has limited mistakes. You put him to the ground maybe there's a shot. The Skins tackles are healthy this year, and their support backs have learned the tasks of helping the front five block for the run and pass.
Teams get so caught up in the blocking up front it lets things develop downfield for the new smurf- Santana Moss.
Minus a timely fumble the Skins could argubably have another road win on their belt against a division leader. They're not better than their record or worse than their record. The Washington team is what it is, a team that stays close enough to win even on their worst days, and a good winner on their strong days.
As for the Bush team, they had no talent level. They demoted Richard Clarke the terror czar from day one. No revisionism will change the stain of dishonor the aWol smirk has brought to the Highest Office.
He still grinds his teeth like a cokehead. Probably the amphetamine dosages they have to administer to keep him wide eyed on his travel schedules across time zones and briefings that are shaven to nothing for him to hear from his SCOTUS nominee. Nixon drank gin in swaths to tone down the grind there, bubba gump Bush. Kissinger's head would blow up if he tried to get a sentence out of you...
Get off the crack GWB. Go back to your hidey hole in Crawford that you plan to abandon once the gig on playing joe average is up. Give America back to its people. If you do it nicely we'll let you visit Karl while he's in jail... the turblossom(your favorite godly xtian phrase) may get a pardon from you.
Will you write TURDBLOSSOM in crayola for the pardon? Surely everyone will know who you are talking about, just like everyone knew who Karl talked about that Wilson's wif- errrr just like the 'who's who handbook' said, minus the detailed CIA clandestine NOC program she was part of...
October 24, 2005 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink