For those of you too lazy to Google the meaning of this week’s title, or don’t know The Matrix by heart, it loosely means ‘Know Thyself’. Right now, this Redskins team does not look at all like it knows which direction it is heading. After an unexpectedly promising start, we all began counting the wins remaining in the season. Now, several weeks later, we’re wondering where any win will come from. Those on the positive side will say that we’re still 6-4, still in second place in the NFC East, and were the season to end today, we’d have the second wild card spot. But that’s not the point. The season doesn’t end today, and we’re on the wrong end of the momentum swing.
During the Pittsburgh game, it was apparent how tired this team was. You could see it. I had hoped that after a week off we’d see a renewed team face the Cowboys. But we seemed to play scared, hesitant. That’s why the pessimists are buzzing this week. If you cant come out after a bye week and roll over a hated rival at home in a very important division game, then bad things will happen. What’s worse is that the deficiencies that were identified by the pundits (offensive line, pressure from the defensive line, lack of experience of Jason Campbell) seems to now be materializing.
Right now, I’m trying to figure out which team the Redskins are. Are they a good team that has just gotten in a rut, and will again begin to show some life as we enter a critical stretch of games? Or are we simply a mediocre team that overachieved a few weeks early in the season, and will fall short of the playoffs? While I’d like to believe the former, the latter is a very real possibility. One thing is for sure – only the guys at Redskins Park know the truth. The rest of us will have to wait to see what happens – which, by the way, is the worst part of being a football fan.
