Official Game Thread - Commanders @ Lions

Boone said:
I don’t understand what you are saying here SCP - are you saying we should have pulled starters because the game was out of reach?

Not everything is the coaches fault. Shit happens.
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Down two scores after the two minute warning is a good sign to quits instead of calling three timeouts and trying to score a TD.

Unlike whatever happened in Cleveland, the Lions were playing prevent precisely to not let the freaky deep bomb happen.

Yeah, dumb breakdowns in coverage do happen in happens like with the Jets-Browns. But with the way Slye screwed up one onside kick already, plus the team wasted the two-minute warning, there are times making a business decision makes sense.
 
I hear what you are saying but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a team do that (pull key starters in a near certain loss) because anything can happen late.
 
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The greatest comeback victory of all time was when the Bears defeated the Browns in overtime in a fairly meaningless, forgotten game. It happened about 20 years ago.

The Browns were up 21 - 7 on the Bears with about 45 seconds left. The Bears scored on a short TD pass with about 40 seconds left to make it 21 - 14. The Bears then recovered the onside kick, but they had no timeouts left. On the last play of the game, the Bears threw a 40 yard Hail Mary pass and completed it to tie the game. Near the beginning of overtime, the Bears returned an interception for a TD to win the game.

I was in a sports bar watching the end of the game, and the poor Browns fans just looked completely mortified. They could not process everything that happened in the previous 15 minutes, they were totally shell-shocked. I felt so bad for them.
 
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Boone said:
For me, nothing will ever surpass the MNF road comeback against the Cowboys with Brunell and Moss hooking up on 2 TD bombs.
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I ended up standing on a bar table at Bennigans in Springfield Mall when that 2nd TD was converted. 2 Cowboys fans had been riding my ass all night til that happened.. i'll never forget.
 
Boone said:
For me, nothing will ever surpass the MNF road comeback against the Cowboys with Brunell and Moss hooking up on 2 TD bombs.
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That was definitely my favorite Washington comeback, especially because it was on the road in Dallas and the Washington offense was completely dead until the final minutes of the game. The two TD passes just came out of nowhere.

Another great comeback was 1983 when Washington was down 35 - 20 to the Raiders with less than 8 minutes left in the game. Washington scored 17 points in about 5 minutes and won the game 37 - 35. Of course, the Raiders got their revenge in Super Bowl XVIII at the end of the season. That 1983 team was still the greatest Washington team of all-time in my book.
 
The Monday Night Miracle was pretty amazing ... I was walking/dancing on the living room couch in total silence because the kiddies had finally gone to sleep. I skinned two knuckles on the ceiling fan.

That 1983 comeback against the Raiders has also held a special place in my Washington fandom--just a fabulous football game between two very good teams.

Another favorite comeback memory for me has always been this one ...

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1992. Jason Buck knocks the ball out of Troy Aikman’s hand and Copeland recovers the ball in the endzone. Redskins TD puts them ahead 20-17 with three minutes to go. The injury-plagued, over the hill Redskins move to 9-5 beating the 11-3 Cowboys and secure a spot in the playoffs. The last gasp of the glorious Joe Gibbs Era.

That was the greatest upset/comeback until the ‘05 Miracle. At least to me.
 
Henry said:
1992. Jason Buck knocks the ball out of Troy Aikman’s hand and Copeland recovers the ball in the endzone. Redskins TD puts them ahead 20-17 with three minutes to go. The injury-plagued, over the hill Redskins move to 9-5 beating the 11-3 Cowboys and secure a spot in the playoffs. The last gasp of the glorious Joe Gibbs Era.

That was the greatest upset/comeback until the ‘05 Miracle. At least to me.
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A lot of people forget that game, but that was one of my favorite comebacks of all time. At the time I remember being confused as to how Copeland got the ball. Watching on YouTube now, you can clearly see him pick up the ball and hold it up and for some reason running out of the end zone back towards midfield. There was no instant replay that year, which is good because that would have been an interesting call on if it was a pass from Aikman or a fumble. The Tuck Rule didn’t get implemented until 1999, so I’m not sure the exact rule at the time. But with no replay, the call on the field stood and it was a glorious Redskins victory.
 
Om said:
The Monday Night Miracle was pretty amazing ... I was walking/dancing on the living room couch in total silence because the kiddies had finally gone to sleep. I skinned two knuckles on the ceiling fan.

That 1983 comeback against the Raiders has also held a special place in my Washington fandom--just a fabulous football game between two very good teams.

Another favorite comeback memory for me has always been this one ...

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I remember that game against the Lions, too! That was a big comeback. I also remember the next game the following week and Rutledge played horrible!
 
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