No team in the league underwent as massive an overhaul as the Redskins this offseason. The past six months were filled with nothing but upheaval in the Capitol. The Mike Shanahan regime is now firmly in place and with it comes a new (old) quarterback, a new defensive scheme, and a new attitude. Will it be enough to bring the ‘Skin out of the NFC East basement?
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Olandis Gary. Mike Anderson. Rueben Droughns. Tatum Bell. All four of these backs were unheralded when they started their careers in Denver, yet all managed to top 1,000 yards during their stay. Of course, there were also studs Terrell Davis and Clinton Portis, too. But even Davis was nondescript coming out of Georgia in 1995 and wasn’t drafted until the sixth round.
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Five months ago Jerome Bettis claimed Bill Cowher, his former coach in Pittsburgh, was waiting to return to coaching until the New York Giants job became available. The story gained headlines and led to speculation as to the truth of his comments—until Cowher summarily denied the rumors, stating he hadn’t talked to Bettis in two years. And with that, the conspiracy theory died and everyone forgot about it—except for me.
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It’s been two months since the Eagles sent Donovan McNabb to the Redskins in a rare interdivision trade, and in those two months there’s been a lot of talk about McNabb being the savior that Dan Snyder has been looking for since he took over the team and began his off-season spending sprees. But is McNabb alone enough to bring the Redskins back to respectability?
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Yesterday’s NFC East title showdown was one that left many fans happy and many others embarrassed. The one-side shellacking of the Eagles was far from expected, as both of these squads traditionally play each other tough. But what did we learn for next week?
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This posting comes a little bit later than normal and I would like to apologize to all of my loyal readers. I have been a little busy working on a top secret project for a major provider of football information. But, I am now back to our beloved site here and I am ready to riff on all of the goings on in yesterdays games. So without further adieu here are the 8 things that I saw yesterday that I think everyone should recognize as well.
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The first quarter of the season will end for most teams after this weekend’s games. A lot of teams like to look at the season, like the game itself, in four quarters. After the first quarter they gauge where they are at and then adjust moving forward. After this weekend’s games, a lot of teams will have a better measure of where they stand and what they’ll have to do to improve going into the second month of the season.
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As you are well-aware by now, the Detroit Lions broke the leagues longest winless streak when they beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday to reside in the win column for the first time since December 23, 2007. I don’t know a single person, except for maybe the Redskins fans, that wasn’t happy to see them finally get off the snide.
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If the popular Berman phrase goes “Daylight come and you gotta Delhomme,” then Panthers fans are likely hoping for eternal darkness.
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Whew! Yesterday was quite the day for football as we saw a legend create magic once more, a team get their first win in over a year, complete offensive futility, and much more interesting developments. There are some surprising undefeated teams as well as a few shockers that remain defeated.
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