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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’.\u00a0 Right now, this Redskins team does not look at all like it knows which direction it is heading.\u00a0 After an unexpectedly promising start, we all began counting the wins remaining in the season.\u00a0 Now, several weeks later, we’re wondering where\u00a0any<\/span> win will come from.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But that’s not the point.\u00a0 The season doesn’t end today, and we’re on the wrong end of the momentum swing.<\/p>\n

During the Pittsburgh game, it was apparent how tired this team was.\u00a0 You could see it.\u00a0 I had hoped that after a week off we’d see a renewed team face the Cowboys.\u00a0 But we seemed to play scared, hesitant.\u00a0 That’s why the pessimists are buzzing this week.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m trying to figure out which team the Redskins are.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Or are we simply a mediocre team that overachieved a few weeks early in the season, and will fall short of the playoffs?\u00a0 While I’d like to believe the former, the latter is a very real possibility.\u00a0 One thing is for sure – only the guys at Redskins Park know the truth.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Destiny.<\/strong>\u00a0 I had a bad feeling about this game as soon as I saw Barber’s fumble bounce off a lineman’s knee and directly back into Barber’s hands.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n

Really?\u00a0 For Real?<\/strong>\u00a0 Newman is good, Al, but he’s one of the ‘top corners in the league’?\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n

Lazy Man Award goes to…<\/strong>\u00a0 I have never seen a running back helped up off the ground more than Clinton Portis.\u00a0 He always seems to be looking for anyone – teammate, rival, anyone – to help him up.\u00a0\u00a0 Against the Cowboys, he even had the refs giving him a hand on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

Attack of the Zorns.<\/strong>\u00a0 I love the 4th and one call early in the first quarter.\u00a0 While I haven’t agreed with all of Zorn’s play calls this year, I do enjoy how much more aggressive he is than Joe Gibbs<\/a> was.\u00a0 He sends a message to the players that we’ll either win, or die trying.<\/p>\n

Tacky Towels.<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, I know everyone is still stinging about the quantity of Steelers fans at the previous home game, but that’s no reason to go an do something silly, like wave white towels of your own.\u00a0 Redskins fans are known for making noise – not with ‘thunder sticks’, not waving towels.\u00a0 Let’s get back to basics.<\/p>\n

Hi, I’m Wade.\u00a0 Who are you again?<\/strong>\u00a0 No matter what just happened, Wade Phillips always seems to have that ‘What just happened?’ look on his face.\u00a0 Romo gets sacked – what just happened?\u00a0 Barber runs it in for a TD – what just happened?<\/p>\n

The concussion that never was.<\/strong>\u00a0 Al and John criticized Romo for throwing behind TO on Hall’s interception, bu the guy may have saved TO’s life.\u00a0 Landry was bearing down on him, and had the ball been on target, I’m not sure TO would be conscious now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mmm da da deh.\u00a0 <\/strong>No Queen\/David Bowie duet here. For the second week in a row, there was virtually zero pressure from the defensive line.\u00a0 And almost no blitzes.\u00a0 I can’t remember the last time I saw a corner blitz from the Redskins.\u00a0 I know we have a talented group of defensive backs, but at some point it seems that we should be trying to force some bad throws.\u00a0 It’s getting frustrating.<\/p>\n

Let’s build that dome!\u00a0 <\/strong>While I am a fan of cold weather football, I am most certainly NOT a fan of cold weather cheerleading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some cheese with that?\u00a0 <\/strong>Let me preface this comment by saying that in no way did anyone but the Redskins lose this game for the Redskins, but I thought the officiating was horrible.\u00a0 I believe that the call on the punt was right, but I counted at least five times when I saw the Cowboys offense holding on sweep plays.\u00a0 And not holding inside the shoulders, but on the outside of shoulder pad.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0the John Madden Dictionary.<\/strong>\u00a0 ‘Audiblizing’ – the act of calling an audible.\u00a0 Also see ‘audiblization’, ‘audiblination’ and ‘audiblizification’.<\/p>\n

This is why I married this woman.<\/strong>\u00a0 At one point, Mrs. Donuts\u00a0noted that\u00a0Tony Romo\u00a0‘looks so\u00a0delicate’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two.\u00a0 <\/strong>That’s the total number of downfieldthrows by this offense in the last two games.\u00a0 Some of it has to do withthe lack of pass protection, but it also seems that some it has to do with Zorn’s unwillingness to let loose.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Math whiz.<\/strong>\u00a0 Al Michaels is the best commentator when it comes to\u00a0adding time.\u00a0 For example, if there’s 1:32 left in the half, most play-by-play guys would take the easy road and just say, ‘1:32 left in the half’.\u00a0 But what does Al do?.\u00a0 He whips out a ’92 seconds remain in the first stanza’ comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like a System of a Down song.<\/strong>\u00a0 Aside from bits and pieces of drives here and there, the offense seems to have lost its rhythm.\u00a0 A couple of years ago I blamed Mark Brunell for the offense’s woes, and here JC should shoulder most of the blame.\u00a0 He has to do something<\/span> to get this thing moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Those *&%$ little things.<\/strong>\u00a0 Since beating Philadelphia in week 5, it seems like it’s been the little things that have been tripping the Redskins up.\u00a0 The mix-up on the downed punt, dropped passes on crucial third downs, missed communication on the offensive line.\u00a0 While we might be able to squeak by a few teams and into the playoffs, it won’t be enough to get very far.<\/p>\n

It’s all about your point of view.\u00a0 <\/strong>At one point, Al\u00a0 described our offensive line as ‘one of the most experienced in the league’, which is code speak for ‘old’.\u00a0 While I appreciate Al’s kind description, the O-line certainly showed its age on several plays.<\/p>\n

Simple – score more.<\/strong>\u00a0 According to my research department, only one team has scored ten point or less in a game this year and won (the Steelers over the Browns in week 2, 10-6).\u00a0 The obvious solution here is to score more points, at all costs.\u00a0 The defense will take care of itself.<\/p>\n

The Expletive of the Week Award goes to…<\/strong>\u00a0 Jason Campbell, for uttering a vile and offensive ‘dangit’ after a missed throw in the Steelers game (you could read his lips on the slow mo replay).\u00a0 Some words of advice to JC:\u00a0watch that mouth, pal, or you’ll be going to heck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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