Comments on: Washington Redskins 21 Arizona Cardinals 19: The Good and the Bad http://www.theredskinreport.com/2007/10/22/washington-redskins-21-arizona-cardinals-19-the-good-and-the-bad/ Thoughts and Analysis of the Washington Redskins and the NFL. Indepth game previews, statistical analysis and opinion pieces featuring the Redskins Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Football » Washington Redskins 21 Arizona Cardinals 19: The Good and the Bad http://www.theredskinreport.com/2007/10/22/washington-redskins-21-arizona-cardinals-19-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-22545 Football » Washington Redskins 21 Arizona Cardinals 19: The Good and the Bad Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:58:35 +0000 http://www.theredskinreport.com/2007/10/22/washington-redskins-21-arizona-cardinals-19-the-good-and-the-bad/#comment-22545 [...] Lee Gibbons wrote a fantastic post today on “Washington Redskins 21 Arizona Cardinals 19: The Good and the Bad”Here’s ONLY a quick extractIt wasn’t anywhere near pretty and couldn’t have been less impressive, but the Washington Redskins held on for a 21-19 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. In typical Gibbs 2.0 fashion, the Redskins offense couldn’t get anything … [...] [...] Lee Gibbons wrote a fantastic post today on “Washington Redskins 21 Arizona Cardinals 19: The Good and the Bad”Here’s ONLY a quick extractIt wasn’t anywhere near pretty and couldn’t have been less impressive, but the Washington Redskins held on for a 21-19 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. In typical Gibbs 2.0 fashion, the Redskins offense couldn’t get anything … [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theredskinreport.com/2007/10/22/washington-redskins-21-arizona-cardinals-19-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-19025 Anonymous Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:17:52 +0000 http://www.theredskinreport.com/2007/10/22/washington-redskins-21-arizona-cardinals-19-the-good-and-the-bad/#comment-19025 Lee, you left out the BEST two things about Sunday: #1, No new Offensive Line Injuries. With the beat up line we've got, the fact no one was hurt worse is the single biggest success of the week. We may be able to start getting folks healthy again, and perhaps get back to the team that we SHOULD be. #2, Tie-Breaker win; we've now one 2 of 4 of the "Tie-Breaker" games that we've played (Giants, Detroit, Green Bay, and Arizona). On any given Sunday, we would have been 3-1, but in the three most critical, we're 2-1 (we face the Giants later to take care of the Tie-Breaker with them, and erase it; we just need to take care of our own games between now and then). The only big games left that have potential Tie-Breaker status are the game against the Giants, and the games against the Bucs and Vikings; quite frankly, at least one or two of those games will be superfluous by the end of the season, as the Bucs and Packers probably won't need Tie-Breakers (division champions). Put another way, the two games we've played (barring Giants) that matter for a Wildcard spot are Detroit and Arizona.... and we've got the Win for both. If the playoffs were today, we'd be in. Now we just need to beat a few more teams after this coming week... If we go 4-2 in the next 6 weeks, we've all but clenched a playoff berth (just needing 2 other wins in December). That means Jets, Eagles, Bucs, and Bills... we can afford to lose to the Pats and Cowboys, if we win those four. We can even lose to the Bucs, but we lose most of our margin (we'd have to steal two from the Bears, Giants, Vikings and Cowboys). Oh, how much easier this would be if we'd finished the game against the Giants and the Packers..... I'd trade the win yesterday for those two! Lee, you left out the BEST two things about Sunday:

#1, No new Offensive Line Injuries. With the beat up line we’ve got, the fact no one was hurt worse is the single biggest success of the week. We may be able to start getting folks healthy again, and perhaps get back to the team that we SHOULD be.

#2, Tie-Breaker win; we’ve now one 2 of 4 of the “Tie-Breaker” games that we’ve played (Giants, Detroit, Green Bay, and Arizona). On any given Sunday, we would have been 3-1, but in the three most critical, we’re 2-1 (we face the Giants later to take care of the Tie-Breaker with them, and erase it; we just need to take care of our own games between now and then). The only big games left that have potential Tie-Breaker status are the game against the Giants, and the games against the Bucs and Vikings; quite frankly, at least one or two of those games will be superfluous by the end of the season, as the Bucs and Packers probably won’t need Tie-Breakers (division champions).

Put another way, the two games we’ve played (barring Giants) that matter for a Wildcard spot are Detroit and Arizona…. and we’ve got the Win for both. If the playoffs were today, we’d be in. Now we just need to beat a few more teams after this coming week… If we go 4-2 in the next 6 weeks, we’ve all but clenched a playoff berth (just needing 2 other wins in December). That means Jets, Eagles, Bucs, and Bills… we can afford to lose to the Pats and Cowboys, if we win those four. We can even lose to the Bucs, but we lose most of our margin (we’d have to steal two from the Bears, Giants, Vikings and Cowboys).

Oh, how much easier this would be if we’d finished the game against the Giants and the Packers….. I’d trade the win yesterday for those two!

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