‘Skins are in!

Sunday, December 30th, 2007...8:45 pm by Bill

Washington got all the help they needed, but then decided to earn their way in regardless, as both the Saints and Vikings faltered today, letting the Redskins in by default, even as the Redskins took care of business and staked their claim outright. The playoff roadmap for the Redskins is now easy to see:

@Seattle next Saturday, January 5th
@Dallas on (tentatively) Saturday, January 12th; this COULD be the Sunday Game, but is more likely to be the Saturday game.
@(Green Bay/Tampa Bay/New York Giants) Sunday, January 20th

Dallas will definitely be rooting for Seattle hard this week, as they would have (from their perspective) back to back games against the Redskins if (when) we advance past Seattle. Four more wins have Coach Gibbs hoisting a trophy, and evening his record for this second go around; I’m not sure which would be more satisfying (although payback to the Patriots would go a long way toward making it sweeter). But there is a lot of (good) football between now and then, and we may not even advance past Seattle next week, though I believe that we’ll probably be favored by a few points. As you can tell, I’m quite stoked about the playoffs. During the 12 years of our beloved Redskins being “In the Wilderness”, we managed only a single playoff berth. In the four years since, we’ve earned 2. Who said Coach Gibbs doesn’t have game(plan)?