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Washington Times NFL writer Dave Elfin did a lengthy Q&A with Redskins owner Dan Snyder during the owners meetings this week. It was a very interesting read. At the end, Snyder lamented losing the game. Here was the question Elfin asked and Snyder's interesting answer:
Q: The NFC East has been a great division for years. Does the Giants
winning the Super Bowl give you inspiration?
A: "It's the best division. We think we should've been that team. Joe
(Gibbs) and I thought if we get through Seattle, we were very much looking forward to going to Dallas and then we were looking forward to the rematch in Green Bay. We owed them something. We were very, very comfortable with where we were. We just couldn't get our of Seattle. If that recovery by Anthony Mix had been a touchdown with the rule the way we'd like it to be, that game's probably over. I haven't brought it up this week because it looks like I'm a sore loser."
COMMENTS:
Our first 2 possesions in the 4th quarter we were intercepted. He didn't loose from some bad call...he lost because they couldn't take advantage of our turnovers late in the game.
I always laugh when I hear this, and living in New Jersey I hear it all the time. If the NFC East is the best division then why have we beaten them 8 that's EIGHT straight times now! I don't care about circumstances the bottom line is they just aren't as good as they think. This league is setup so that the difference between 5-11 and 11-5 is generally based on injures.
The reality is, your Redskins get hot at the end of the season. After a few wins, the east coast hype machine got rolling, and all of a sudden, the 'skins were a Super Bowl favorite. In the end, you were just another ridiculously overrated team that got pub you're on the east coast.
Enjoy losing, Danny-boy, because as long as you're calling the shots, you're never going to win a playoff game. And when you guys suck the next two years because of YOU, you'll blame Jim Zorn and he'll come back to Seattle where he belongs.
NFC East - 5 of last 7 seasons, an East team has been in Conference Championship game, 1 SB win, and 2 other SB appearances
NFC West - 2 appearances in the SB, no wins, 2 appearances in Conference championship game.
Last 6 seasons, # of wins in conference:
East - 29, 25, 28, 27, 26, 26
West - 20, 23, 20, 22, 25, 23
So while the Hawks may have done well, top to bottom, the east is a h*;; of a lot better.
What does it say about the state of your coaching, your scouting, and your management when you bring a 38-year-old journeyman quarterback late in the season and suddenly believe that makes you a contender? If they were a Super Bowl team with Todd Collins behind center why wasn't he playing all season?
The Redskins are a sad franchise because their deep and proud fan base has been forced to suffer through inept management and poor coaching the last decade and a half.
However, as curran1979 pointed out... the Kerney fumble was BS... which meant we had another turnover early in the game and we end up going into the half with a big lead... so that stupid kick never would have mattered, nor would anyone have cared about it...
Speaking of BS calls, this is just stupid. Would the Redskins have really beaten the Patriots in the Super Bowl? After getting beat by 1,000 points by them in the regular season? Of course not.
The Stealers got a "call" against them this week. If they would have beaten the Jags, does anyone with a brain really think they could have gone into NE and beat the Pats? I'm sure one of their S would have "guaranteed" it just like the time before.
Back to us, we got F-ed in the SUPER BOWL. That's more than any loser regular season or playoff game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those loser teams would have had to win other games they could have easily lost.
We were done... win that game and we win the Super Bowl!!!
F-the NFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will go to my deathbed saying the Hawks were f'ed in Super Bowl XL. You can call me a sore loser all day forever and nothing will change that opinion. That's why I applaud that kid who spit in the Steeler fan's burger. He did something although it was wrong. That's just not a great analogy to draw to Snyder. The NFL/media did a massive cover-up after that game and no one has the balls to do some investigating a la Woodward and Bernstein. If you don't believe there could be conspiracy and corruption at a high level you must've missed the past few years of sports and also Bush v. Gore. You're either out of your mind or in denial. Think for yourself rather than having the media pump thoughts into your head!
REDSKINS GO TURD COLLECTING
Posted by Mike Florio on April 4, 2008, 9:58 p.m.
The Washington Redskins signed their first free agent who didn’t play in 2007 with the Washington Redskins.
The new player is receiver Jerome Mathis, a three-year member of the Houston Texans who didn’t receive a restricted free agent tender after being arrested for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend in February. (Charges have since been dropped, primarily because the alleged victim moved out of state and asked for the charges to be dropped.)
Hey, Redskins — why didn’t you just make a waiver claim for Chris Henry?
The Washington Times points out that the team waited until 7:00 p.m. on Friday to send out a release announcing the move, which apparently was aimed at avoiding unnecessary scrutiny of the decision.
As one media source told us, “No way they bring this guy on when [Joe] Gibbs was in charge.”
You obviously have no capability to think for yourself trying to compare grapes to broccoli. The XL calls by the refs were so insipidly egregious (and there was more than just one) that any objective observer would have recognized that they determined the outcome of the game.
There was no such controversy in the Redskins game outside of maybe some Redskins fans and Snyder's deluded view of reality.
For you to try to compare the two reveals the makings of a very simple mind.
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