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To: starpopper who wrote (5250)	12/11/2000 11:07:33 PM
From: DSPetry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45639

NFL Gods??? We lost Galloway, before he even broke a swet...Ismail goes down....Aikman gets a Conkushion (sp?) every other week, and still plays...Cunningham is hurt... Although, look on the bright side...We did Sucker ya into taking Deion ;) Kinda have mixed feelings about my Boys this week...If we knock off the Giants, then we help Philly win the East. I hate the eagles almost as much as the Deadskins ;) Dave Is there no mercy from the NFL Gods?!

To: starpopper who wrote (5250)	12/16/2000 1:04:10 PM
From: DSPetry	Respond to of 45639

Watching the beginning of this weeks game against the steelers... I think your skins are in SERIOUS trouble in their future... cbs.sportsline.com Some were impressed by his willingness to spend whatever it took to win. Others ridiculed him for having even the most fleeting notion of naming football dinosaur Pepper Rodgers the next head coach of his team. Either way, there might not be a more tired story or name than that of Washington owner Daniel Snyder. And now, there might not be a more tired, listless, and disenchanted group of players than the Redskins. A look at the club's major units reveals either abundant injury or lethargy. Even before going in that direction, though, the pressing issue is the state of the 7-7 Redskins' playoff hopes. Technically, they still exist. But they exist by a thread so thin, they're comparable to a strand of dental floss pulling a Sumo wrestler. Even if the Redskins win at Pittsburgh on Saturday -- the final game the Steelers will play in Three Rivers Stadium -- the 'Skins are out if Detroit (at the Jets) and St. Louis (at Tampa Bay) win their Week 16 games. As for the Redskins' units, the picture is indeed bleak. On offense, deposed quarterback Brad Johnson counts the days to free agency. Meanwhile, the offensive line is seriously challenged, due in some part to injuries that long ago ended the seasons of Cory Raymer and Tre Johnson and, more recently, have made Keith Sims unavailable. The struggles of first-round pick Chris Samuels were apparent in last Sunday's 32-13 loss to Dallas. The Redskins were in the embarrassing position of being unable to run against the Cowboys. On defense, the Redskins have been one of the NFL's most consistent performers. But it still smarts to have allowed 242 rushing yards and 32 points to the Cowboys in a game where "must win" meant exactly that -- especially with Dallas playing a third-string quarterback much of the time. On special teams -- well, forget it. The firing of former assistant coach LeCharls McDaniel nine days ago didn't alter the fact that Washington's special teams talent is inferior. That's why dismissed coach Norv Turner said McDaniel did "a great job" in view of that talent. That's why Deion Sanders continued to hammer the quality of Washington's special teams this week, resuming a theme he first espoused within an hour of Turner's termination on Dec. 4. "What you saw on the opposite side of the field in Dallas, that is what I was used to before I came," Sanders said this week. "I'm just being honest. It's no coincidence that things have been like it has been punt-return-wise." The kind of punt-return ease Sanders experienced in his five seasons with the Cowboys has been almost nonexistent with Washington. Meanwhile, Dallas wide receiver Wane McGarity had returns of 27 and 33 yards in the first quarter. "It's crazy. I welcome (being a punt-returner) with the right unit. I mean, c'mon, you guys aren't crazy. You see what is going on out there," Sanders said. Even though Sanders was referring to the flash of time between the moment he fields a punt and when he's tackled, the broader view of what's "going on out there" is a team transfixed by its own failure. Remember, the Cowboys practically toyed with the Redskins. No one could figure out what happened to the fire Washington was supposed to rekindle under interim head coach Terry Robiskie. For his part, Robiskie is also at a loss to find it. In solitude, he watched game film from Dallas until 3 a.m. upon the Redskins' return Sunday night. "Not too many people wanted to sit and watch it with me," Robiskie said of his private viewing. "I can't understand why nothing from last week transferred over to Sunday," he said during his weekly press conference. "It was interesting to look at the game on tape and to see, verbatim, everything we discussed from Wednesday to Sunday. It all happened, the way we said it would happen. "It would be one thing if we said a million things to them about Dallas and one or two of them we didn't mention and so weren't prepared for. But when you say one million things and all one million happen -- and they still don't respond? That confuses me." Can the Redskins respond with anything at Pittsburgh on Saturday? Right now, it is hard to imagine they would. The emotion at Three Rivers will be dominantly laced with a Steel City feel. When such former Pittsburgh greats as Jack Ham, Mike Webster and Mel Blount are returning to toast a building that housed the team of the 1970s, those echoes surely will drown out any whispers from the Redskins. Saturday should be a day to toast the stewardship of the gracious and understated Rooney family -- longtime Steelers owners Dan Rooney and his late father, Art. It shouldn't be a day to talk about Snyder, a subject that has grown tiresome to just about everyone. I like the italic/bolded quote... They knew what Dallas was going to do, and STILL couldn't stop them!!!! Its gonna be a long few years in WASHINGTON :) Dave <edit> - Holy Cow, they actually KICKED A FIELD GOAL :)