Division record: 2-3. The Dallas Cowboys ground game is averaging 115.3 yards per contest, and Darren McFadden leads the way with 634 yards and two touchdowns.
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The Redskins snapped a five-game losing streak to the Giants and won their fifth straight home game. In the waning seconds of the game, the Giants attempted that silly lateral technique to miraculously win the game. “What they thought about the team and where we’re at and what we need to do to progress”. He did it last Sunday when he caught a 66-yard scoring pass from Cousins in Washington’s win, which gave the Redskins a first-place tie in the East and the tiebreaker over NY.
During an interview with WTEM-AM in Washington DC on Monday, Jean Francois explained what his message was to his teammates on Saturday, and that message was that the Redskins can be good this year – good enough to “win it all”. Special teams, offense or defense didn’t play well. The Giants are going to have their hands full.
The slumping Philadelphia Eagles are 4-7, and travel to New England in Week 13. I just wanted him to understand that. But one way the Redskins can help the Cowboys upset them is to turn the ball over.
The consensus in the football world is the 2015 Cowboys are a playoff caliber team that was struck with a devastating rash of crippling injuries. Let’s be sensible – that’s not going to happen. He is definitely worth a flyer, but his big game seems more like an anomaly than a sign of things to come the rest of the year.
“The Washington Redskins are proud to be one of the most popular sports teams in the world”, President Bruce Allen said. So the magic number is seven – Dallas wins + Giants losses.
The game against the Bengals and the potential game against the Rams would both be considered road games, preserving the Redskins’ eight-game regular season home slate.
Even if they held a playoff spot at the moment, they still would not deserve it. They could shape up and look themselves in the mirror and get things together for a late-season push and change this perception. They just beat the New York Giants, a division opponent, to achieve the position at the top. But can Dallas pull it off?
Safety Dashon Goldson didn’t specifically mention winning it all, but he did say after the win that the Redskins have the talent to play well as long as they put their personal issues aside. And this is against running backs – Doug Martin and Jonathan Stewart, who are ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively in rushing yards this season, trailing only Adrian Peterson.
Three of those four mediocre division winners were within the first two years of a new regime (Ron River is in his 5th season with the Panthers), and you could make the case that three of those teams won divisions in the midst of a rebuilding effort similar to the one we’re witnessing in Washington. Cassel is 0-4 as a starter for Dallas, but returns to the starting lineup again after Tony Romo fractured his left collarbone last week against Carolina. “We have a lot of leaders in this locker room now, which is good”. Maybe he’ll have a better showing this time around? You can tell he’s talented.
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Coldplay is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show on February 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. I would take that deal if I had the choice. With every other team in the NFC East floundering, it’s beginning to look like the Redskins might take the division.
