I don't even necessarily think that we need to walk into New York next week and win to help get me believing that this team is turning a corner.
It's all in how we handle ourselves in the bully's backyard. You know the Giants are going to want to get after Robert and try to intimidate us, and impose their physicality on a relatively young and inexperienced Redskins roster. They will use their track record over the past 5 odd seasons or so to try and get our guys to believe they don't stand a chance against the big, bad "Blue".
Over the course of the past several seasons, we'd routinely walk into New York, look unprepared, breakdown mentally and be called for numerous false starts and other penalties, and most of all, be pushed around by their defense and be staring at 2 and 14 and 3rd and 10 repeatedly on offense.
Provided we stay away from the type of game I described in the paragraph above, I'll walk away encouraged about what we are creating in Washington. On the other hand, if we get thoroughly smashed, I'm going to lean towards believing that outside of Robert Griffin, we've got our work cut out for us and are possibly staring at 4th place in the NFC East for the next couple seasons in all reality.
Regardless, next week is a crucial measuring stick in terms of this team's maturation.