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How do you take a young team and make them battle tested in a hurry. Play seven playoff games in a row. Tell them they have to focus and if they lose a single one of them they are done. Take their grit, determination, and pride and tell them at 3-6 that it's time to evaluate because you don't care that we are down Davis, Orakpo, Carriker, Merriweather, or that John "F" Mara screwed the team over for two years and that everyone is being evaluated to see if they are a winner. Find a rookie qb who gets truly pissed when he is benched because of an injury and wants to play and win that bad. Fnd a rookie runner who when he makes a mistake and fumbles punishes the opposition into submission.
Some say the Redskins haven't been in the playoffs since 2007, but I say bull****. They have been in the playoffs every game since the bye and they eliminated the Giants, the Cowboys, and others from their playoff run. One and done is nothing to them.
Rumor is that after the win against Dallas the team celebrated for five minutes and then the metal cooled and was hard again. This team isn't done yet. It isn't satisfied and after seven weeks of forging it isn't brittle.
This team is steel. It isn't the purest alloy, it isn't the sharpest metal, but it has been worked. It has been driven. Best, I believe it is still hungry and the anvil is still hot. Time to hammer and let the sparks fly. Time to forge something lasting.
This should be a young team. Anyone who has been watching the last few weeks knows that it is not. There's not a lot of silliness, stupid penalties, or awkward celebrations. These Redskins are serious. How else do you explain a defense that missing so many parts can be in the right place to make three interceptions and become suddenly good after their miracle man gets hurt. How else can you explain Crawford's punt returns or Jackson's interceptions, or this o-line forging one of the top offenses in the league.
There is only one explanation. Work, drive, determination, seriousness, and sweat have made this team something better than it is. Where ten years ago we were paper tigers... today we are becoming or perhaps we are steel.
Some say the Redskins haven't been in the playoffs since 2007, but I say bull****. They have been in the playoffs every game since the bye and they eliminated the Giants, the Cowboys, and others from their playoff run. One and done is nothing to them.
Rumor is that after the win against Dallas the team celebrated for five minutes and then the metal cooled and was hard again. This team isn't done yet. It isn't satisfied and after seven weeks of forging it isn't brittle.
This team is steel. It isn't the purest alloy, it isn't the sharpest metal, but it has been worked. It has been driven. Best, I believe it is still hungry and the anvil is still hot. Time to hammer and let the sparks fly. Time to forge something lasting.
This should be a young team. Anyone who has been watching the last few weeks knows that it is not. There's not a lot of silliness, stupid penalties, or awkward celebrations. These Redskins are serious. How else do you explain a defense that missing so many parts can be in the right place to make three interceptions and become suddenly good after their miracle man gets hurt. How else can you explain Crawford's punt returns or Jackson's interceptions, or this o-line forging one of the top offenses in the league.
There is only one explanation. Work, drive, determination, seriousness, and sweat have made this team something better than it is. Where ten years ago we were paper tigers... today we are becoming or perhaps we are steel.