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“The only thing that matters is to break the man in front of you,” the Washington Redskins defensive tackle said. “Beat him as many times as you can.” - Ricky Jean-Francois

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/r ... story.html

I love this "rip your head off" attitude. It's been missing for entirely too long.

great read, thanks for sharing. Now they need to go beat down every Giant tonight and make a convincing statement that last week wasn't just a 1 week wonder.

Ricky Jean is full of good quotes. I like what that guy has been doing here.

This was the best quote in that article though:

A teammate joked with Washington inside linebacker Keenan Robinson that his hard hits, which have included a couple of body slams, were scaring opponents. By the end of the Rams game last week, receivers were dropping easy passes over the middle of the field, perhaps hearing footsteps.

"They’ve seen the tape,” Robinson said. “They’ve seen me put a couple of guys on the ground.”

Tonight's game is the type of game this team usually gets rolled...win tonight and I'm buying "culture change"

Tonight's game is a huge one but it won't have anything to do with the final score. While I would certainly like a W, and I think we will get one, I'm more concerned with who the more physical team is. For the last 5+ years whenever we played the Giants they would physically dominate us. The scoreboard may not have always told the entire stories in those games...sure we may have hung around and made it respectable (ie 24-17), but you could tell we never had a chance in a lot of these games from the first few drives of the game. Time after time our O line and D line would get dominated by the Giants. THAT STOPS TONIGHT!! We start doing the dominating for a change. Redskisns pull this one out 23-17, but its not as close as it looks as Eli throws a meaningless TD with under a minute left.

DEHog wrote:Tonight's game is the type of game this team usually gets rolled...win tonight and I'm buying "culture change"

+1. Win tonight, and everything changes.

Deadskins wrote:

DEHog wrote:Tonight's game is the type of game this team usually gets rolled...win tonight and I'm buying "culture change"

+1. Win tonight, and everything changes.

Hopefully, only in our opinion. We are far better off if the conventional wisdom declares that the Giants beat themselves, that bad calls helped them "not win", or even that an incredible alignment of the stars and satan were responsible...

We are seeing an improved team, but we want the press... And the league... To declare the win a fluke. We want no respect. Makes it easier to play in a hostile state of mind.

DEHog wrote:Tonight's game is the type of game this team usually gets rolled...win tonight and I'm buying "culture change"

+1

I'm nervous because this team has conditioned me to fear primetime games and situations exactly like this one. Going into NY with confidence and taking home a win would go a long way toward convincing me that there is a real culture change happening.

The problem began when a fight broke out during Spring Training (a fight breaks out at every team's Spring Training) and they were trying to spin it like the team is a bunch of tough guys. Then the defense start saying they want a nickname. Then Scoots says opponents are gonna be "sore" after the game.
Talk is cheap, but Little Danny continues to wonder why no one takes his team seriously.

It seemed to me that the Thursday night problem began with the pass defense. Reminds me how lucky we were to have Darrell Green and the other DB's, plus Manley/Mann/Butz/Grant, plus the "mediocre" line backers. And Richie Petibon calling defenses.

welch wrote:It seemed to me that the Thursday night problem began with the pass defense. Reminds me how lucky we were to have Darrell Green and the other DB's, plus Manley/Mann/Butz/Grant, plus the "mediocre" line backers. And Richie Petibon calling defenses.

I'd attribute the pass defense to a lack of pass rush. But I concur, we were lucky to have that defense.

Countertrey wrote:

Deadskins wrote:

DEHog wrote:Tonight's game is the type of game this team usually gets rolled...win tonight and I'm buying "culture change"

+1. Win tonight, and everything changes.

Hopefully, only in our opinion. We are far better off if the conventional wisdom declares that the Giants beat themselves, that bad calls helped them "not win", or even that an incredible alignment of the stars and satan were responsible... We are seeing an improved team, but we want the press... And the league... To declare the win a fluke. We want no respect. Makes it easier to play in a hostile state of mind.

well we don't have to worry about that anymore ...

Gruden should know that Cousins is not winning games where he has to use the passing game - guy is not comfortable throwing the ball