even the best band ever knows what's up.
here's some basic math accumulated after this past weekend's games.
Giants: 41
+
Redskins: 29
+
Eagles: 37
+
Cowgirls: 41
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148 points
that's outrageous.
look, I think by this point I've made my homerism pretty explicit. But after watching last night's epic game, I felt an odd sense of pride. I'll first say that I don't hate the Eagles, and never really have. As a matter of fact, For the early part of this decade and the tail end of the last one, they played an extremely exciting style of football that I enjoyed watching. Now when it comes to watching a Skins game in a bar and I gotta put up with the E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! chant as shouted by a host of drunken Philadelphian frat boy types, then it becomes personal. But in terms of the Birds organization itself, it is probably the least bothersome team in our division to me. The same could be said to a lesser extant of the Giants.
For one, I have an on again-off again vendetta with New York City. One minute I get a kick out of it and the next minute I'll despise every last inch of cracked pavement and all the sirens and horn honking that come with it. New Yorkers are proudly obnoxious and admittedly in denial regarding any opinion that may be phrased in a way that discredits their city. This is especially true when discussing the Yankees and Giants. The Yankees right now are looking a lot like like Mankind in this picture:
nonetheless, despite having been thrown through the roof of the Hell in a Cell and falling on a bed of thumbtacks, you would never know the Yankees are suffering if you asked a Yankees fan. This mind set is now applicable to the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. Their fans were already insufferable, now they're world champion A-holes. With that being said, you simply cannot knock what Eli did at the end of last year. Before everyone's very eyes, we watched a mediocre QB makes grand strides towards becoming a great one. His decision making is still suspect at times, and in the season opener it was peculiar to see Coughlin calling the game so conservative in the second half when the Skins were clearly reeling. But nonetheless, the Giants appear to be a class team now that is only going to improve. And to make matters worse, they just don't lose on the road. However, that all may change December 14 when they head to Dallas, Texas.
Offensively, the Cowboys are scary good. While I hate them with all my heart, it's a true gift to have TO on my fantasy team. While their running game is significantly more impressive than the Patriots was last year, I think Owens could still put up frightening numbers, probably somewhere around 38-41 TDs if he really wants to get after it. You can teach people how to catch, how to throw, how to tackle, how to block, but you will never be able to teach someone athleticism. Watching TO last night reminded me of watching Usain Bolt, just a freak of nature who is head and shoulders above the rest. The pundits are desperate to anoint Romo the new Favre, that being the good-old-aw-shucks-white-boy-QB ESPN squirts over. But you take TO from Romo and he'll look like a deer in head lights. Until this team wins a playoff game, wholehearted praise should be reserved. It seems that they're pretty much a lock to win the division.But if there's one team who gets up for playing Dallas more than any other team in the NFC East, its the Washington Redskins.
that's Santana Moss with some normal looking guys I know. One thing that isn't normal is the year he's about to have. All signs appear to indicate that Santana is on his way to potential pro-bowl season if this offense can stay on track. And he won't even be the centerpiece of it all, that would be Coach Jankee Spanky/Southeast Jerome himself, Clinton Portis. Portis could, not saying will, but could rush for 12,5-1300 yards this year in this system. For all the praise I've poured upon our defense in recent months, I saw something Sunday that I hadn't seen from a Redskins offense probably in my entire lifetime; a determined effort explosive drives. What this team is going to do is actually use it's talent to score, and it will keep scoring after it's done scoring. Whereas Gibbs wanted to run a three yard power up the gut and throw a four yard screen pass after that and sit on a one touchdown lead, Jim Zorn, who I will appropriately be calling J-Z from now on, seems to have realized that he has play makers who are willing to work just as long as you give them the touches to work with. Seeing Cooley explode for a 23 bullet Sunday afternoon is an example. And don't expect us to let the Cowboys get into a gunfight, we'll actually PLAY defense.
You put the Cowboys in any other division in the NFC and they sweep, while every other team in our division could still probably win 12 games. Sadly, one of these four won't make the postseason. Time will tell who, but one thing is undeniable, the NFC East is far and away the most brutal and competitive division in professional football. Just ask the Rams, who still have yet to play the Skins and Cowgirls.
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