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Wild-Card Recap

January 7th, 2008 - 2:46am by AndrewOther posts by

Observations, witticisms and other random thoughts from a playoff weekend …

THE PREDICTIONS SO FAR:

ANDREW MASON: 2-2

MIKE RICE, NEWSRADIO 850 KOA: 3-1

KYLE MONTGOMERY, BRONCOTALK: 3-1

JOHN BENA, MILE HIGH REPORT:: 3-1

JONATHAN DOUGLAS, BRONCOTALK: 2-2

Worthy kudos to Mike, Kyle and John. Perhaps I’ll forecast next weekend’s contests with a clearer head now that the team for which I had season tickets while growing up — Tampa Bay — has been scratched from the docket.

SEATTLE 35, WASHINGTON 14

So much for momentum.

Washington’s lofty hopes were spoiled quickly and exploded like a ripe banana in a microwave. Two plays from scrimmage, two Seattle touchdowns — one on a D.J. Hackett reception and the other on Marcus Trufant’s 78-yard interception return — sent the Redskins home just when it seemed they had snatched all momentum and were poised to deal the Seahawks a humbling home defeat.

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Wild-Card Preview: NFC

January 4th, 2008 - 7:30pm by AndrewOther posts by

Redskins-Seahawks
WASHINGTON (9-7) AT SEATTLE (10-6)

WHEN: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. MST
WHERE: Qwest Field, Seattle
TV: NBC

GHOSTS OF PLAYOFFS PAST:

WASHINGTON: John Riggins. This is the 25th anniversary of the Redskins’ run to Super Bowl XVII — and I use the word “run” because it was Riggins who carried the team to the promised land of Pasadena. One-hundred and nineteen yards against Detroit in the opening-round win over Detroit … another 185 yards a week later against Minnesota … a 140-yard stampede over Dallas in the NFC Championship … and a then-Super Bowl record 166 yards against Miami to give the Redskins their first world title in 40 years. He would eventually stretch his run of consecutive 100-yard playoff games to six before having it snapped in Super Bowl XVIII a year later. The only man with more consecutive 100-yard rushing games in the playoffs? Denver’s Terrell Davis.

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What’s after Detroit?

November 6th, 2007 - 11:00am by mark_cooperOther posts by

Let’s keep the season in perspective. It’s tough to watch a game as lopsided as the Detroit game. It hurts because you want YOUR TEAM to win and if you didn’t want YOUR TEAM to win, you wouldn’t be a TRUE fan. If you didn’t get upset you wouldn’t be a true fan. If you didn’t care we wouldn’t be blogging. :o )

I like many of you get upset with the “L” word. I’ve never had that word programmed into my mind as I played sports my entire life and I still compete daily in my real estate business for new business.

Many of you do too, on a day to day basis, in some small way. We’re all competitors.

“L-ing” isn’t in my vocabulary and it shouldn’t be in yours. I use words like set-back or ran-out-of-time. Really though, the reason I went through the above drill, so-to-speak was because after I played for the Broncos, I went to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where our record was as follows.

1987/4-11
1988/5-11
1989/5-11

Talk about tough, that’s tough, winning a total of 14 games in 3 seasons.

That’s why I’m having so much fun reading the papers and listening to the news and blogging this season because I know what it’s like and how different a town is (feels & thinks) that only wins 4 or 5 games in a season.

Just one or two injuries on a team can ruin a season for most NFL teams. We’ve had MANY more than our share and personally I was wondering if it was going to (or really when) would it show up. Well, it has.

We’re not firing anyone.  We’re playing with what we have and going to do the best we can under the conditions presented because you can’t change injuries or cry about them. It’s a violent game and unfortunately part of the game.