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The Owner's Favorite
So I'm watching the Bengals and Colts fight it out and the game seems, to me, different from the Steelers/Ravens game. It looks more like a textbook demonstration of tactical NFL football as opposed to what I described as a "street fight" going on betwen the Ravens and Steelers.
O.K., this got me thinking about something about watching the Redskins play that has ben bothering me for some time, watching other, usually more successful teams. Something was different, something was lacking, something I wasn't seeing in the Skins that I was seeing with other teams and I have been having a hard time putting my finger on exactly what it was. It was what I saw in the Ravens/Stelers game that made it a pretty exciting game, IMO, and more fun to watch than what's going on in the Bengals/Colts tilt.
Granted this is just my impressions, my perceptions and reactions here but what I think I mean is energy. The Ravens and Steelers were going after each other with a vengance, a no-holds-barred exertion of effort on every play, every effort a full-on full speed attack.
This, I think, is what I don't see with the Redskins-oh, maybe there are occasional flashes here and there but not the going-all-out I sensed in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
While I was ruminating about all this someone popped into my head.
Sean Taylor.
In addition to his monumental athleticism, Sean played with an aggressive level of energy, a "I'm going to take you down and strip the damn ball out of your hands no matter what you do" attacking players like they'd just slapped him in the face. I saw that in the way the Ravens and Steelers played yesterday. I'm not seeing it in the Colts/Bengals game today.
I haven't been seeing it with the Redskins and I think that's what bothers me more than anything else when I watch other teams play
They don't just play better than we do they look better than we do.
I want that to change.
O.K., this got me thinking about something about watching the Redskins play that has ben bothering me for some time, watching other, usually more successful teams. Something was different, something was lacking, something I wasn't seeing in the Skins that I was seeing with other teams and I have been having a hard time putting my finger on exactly what it was. It was what I saw in the Ravens/Stelers game that made it a pretty exciting game, IMO, and more fun to watch than what's going on in the Bengals/Colts tilt.
Granted this is just my impressions, my perceptions and reactions here but what I think I mean is energy. The Ravens and Steelers were going after each other with a vengance, a no-holds-barred exertion of effort on every play, every effort a full-on full speed attack.
This, I think, is what I don't see with the Redskins-oh, maybe there are occasional flashes here and there but not the going-all-out I sensed in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
While I was ruminating about all this someone popped into my head.
Sean Taylor.
In addition to his monumental athleticism, Sean played with an aggressive level of energy, a "I'm going to take you down and strip the damn ball out of your hands no matter what you do" attacking players like they'd just slapped him in the face. I saw that in the way the Ravens and Steelers played yesterday. I'm not seeing it in the Colts/Bengals game today.
I haven't been seeing it with the Redskins and I think that's what bothers me more than anything else when I watch other teams play
They don't just play better than we do they look better than we do.
I want that to change.
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