Majority of Skins fans nervous and scared about the game (quotes from their board)

[Stryker44]

Originally Posted by CrownCowboy

No, I'm fully aware what happened way back then. Overall, it really didn't change anything.

That's true I suppose. We went as far as we could that year with the limitations we had at QB. What I wouldn't give to have that defense back though.

I don't know what's worse though, being at the bottom and feeling numb in December, or this kind of tension being right on the cusp. The latter is alot more fun but all in all only 1 team in the NFL is truly happy when all is said and done with this season.

[DuceizBak]

Originally Posted by Dallas71

Of course it's possible that Dallas could win ... but it's possible that I could win the Lotto this weekend too.

The Cowboys have shown this year to suggest that they are likely to win in Washington.

They have already lost to them once, they are even more banged up than they were in their first meeting on turkey day, their best pass rusher is going to limited, and their recent history of awful endings in this scenario against the entire NFC East just doesn't point to a win ... which means, of course, that the Cowboys will win.

I agree it's rather possible ... just not at all likely. Not with Garrett ...

Did you just compare the lotto to this game?
A 50 percent chance that Dallas could win to a one in who knows what million chance?
I'm done 0_o

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

My gut feeling is divisional rivalries tend to get split...the edge is the team that initially lost to get payback.

It's hard to call this one, so I'm using this to say Cowboys win.

[dexternjack]

I'm not nervous about facing them (basically facing the same problems we are to a point), I am more nervous as to which offense and when they show up. I expect the defense to struggle but the offense needs to pick up the slack from the get-go. They can't wait until the 4th to kick it into gear.

[Heisenberg]

Originally Posted by dexternjack

I'm not nervous about facing them (basically facing the same problems we are to a point), I am more nervous as to which offense and when they show up. I expect the defense to struggle but the offense needs to pick up the slack from the get-go. They can't wait until the 4th to kick it into gear.

That's my biggest worry as well. We need to stay in the game in the 1st half and then get some separation in the 2nd half. I'd really rather not be trying to come back from 2+ scores in the 4th quarter again.

[Stryker44]

As a Skins fan, what makes me nervous is that your strengths parlay into our weaknesses. Then again, this largely seems to be true for our strengths and your weaknesses as well.

If we were playing someone like Minnesota or Chicago or SF - I'd be much more relaxed about how our defense would hold up against their QB and passing game. I know they probably wouldn't do that much damage against us running the ball - we held Adrian Peterson to 70 yards earlier in the season.

This game is a total crapshoot...especially with the 3-3.5 point line. Turnovers are obviously going to make a huge difference to swing the game either way.

[dadymat]

Originally Posted by DFWJC

So a win at New York, at Cincy or at home vs Pittsburgh does not show you anything at all?

and all those teams beat the Skins.....

[pavalley]

Originally Posted by Stryker44

As a Skins fan, what makes me nervous is that your strengths parlay into our weaknesses. Then again, this largely seems to be true for our strengths and your weaknesses as well.

If we were playing someone like Minnesota or Chicago or SF - I'd be much more relaxed about how our defense would hold up against their QB and passing game. I know they probably wouldn't do that much damage against us running the ball - we held Adrian Peterson to 70 yards earlier in the season.

This game is a total crapshoot...especially with the 3-3.5 point line. Turnovers are obviously going to make a huge difference to swing the game either way.

I find it interesting that the skins talk about building around the qb, when they mortagaged their future to get him...good luck giving away all of those 1's and 2's...and wait till next year when u r not playing a last place schedule..

[Stryker44]

Originally Posted by pavalley

I find it interesting that the skins talk about building around the qb, when they mortagaged their future to get him...good luck giving away all of those 1's and 2's...and wait till next year when u r not playing a last place schedule..

Yes the whole 2 game difference between the first and last place schedule in the division

[pavalley]

Originally Posted by Stryker44

Yes the whole 2 game difference between the first and last place schedule in the division

Exactly ! A 2 game swing is huge in a season !

[Joe Rod]

The worried ones seem to be focusing on the Redskins weaknesses and the confident ones are focused on the strengths (or Dallas's weaknesses against their strengths).

Sounds about the same as this board, so pretty much par for the course.

[Stryker44]

Originally Posted by pavalley

Exactly ! A 2 game swing is huge in a season !

True, but as one of my old coaches used to say "the cream rises to the top and the grime stays at the bottom"

Besides, whomever finishes first in the division this year is already going to have familiarity playing Atlanta fairly close this year.

I just don't see it as that big a difference - today's NFL team strength and standing can change rapidly. Just look at Indy, Rams, Lions, etc. Games penciled in as "tough" at the start of the season may not necessarily be quite so bad.

[Cali_Skins]

How crazy would it be if the Skins clinch the wildcard and the teams end up playing again in Dallas in 3 weeks. Would make the build up to this one look like a preseason game.

[pavalley]

Originally Posted by Stryker44

True, but as one of my old coaches used to say "the cream rises to the top and the grime stays at the bottom"

Besides, whomever finishes first in the division this year is already going to have familiarity playing Atlanta fairly close this year.

I just don't see it as that big a difference - today's NFL team strength and standing can change rapidly. Just look at Indy, Rams, Lions, etc. Games penciled in as "tough" at the start of the season may not necessarily be quite so bad.

good point, it may not have the same impact as it did pre-salary cap days.....

[Wood]

I hate this Cowboys team but I do not fear them.

These are not Tom Landry’s Cowboys that haunted our childhood dreams in the 1970’s and very early 1980’s.

This is not Roger Staubach under center wiping away a 17 point lead and throwing two touchdowns in the last 140 seconds to leave the Redskins home in 1979. This is not Harvey Martin throwing a funeral wreath in the Redskins locker room after that game.

These are not Jimmy Johnson’s “How ‘bout them Cowboys” fromthe 1990’s who were so loaded that you didn’t so much fear them as much asaccepted that the outcome of a game with them was a foregone conclusion. A team so loaded with weapons had it not been for Jerry Jones’ colossal ego,the Cowboys should have two more Lombardi’s in their case.

These are not even the Bill Parcells’ led Cowboys that could find a way to win with Quincy Carter or Alexander Wright under center. That little bit of doubt that crept into your mind knowing that if anybody could find a way to beat the Redskins with subpar if not inferior talent, it was The Tuna.

So yes, I say to you fellow Redskins brethren, while I hatethis Dallas Cowboys team, I do not fear them.

There is no Cowboys’ mystique surrounding Tony Romo.

There is no fear that Jason Garrett has something up hissleeve that will take advantage of a weakness.

There is no angst that offspring from Buddy Ryan, somebloated blowhard that gets more air time than the head coach, has figured outthe secret to RGIII.

The 4 Letter with all their so called pundits, their separate little ESPN-Dallas, Ed Werder, John Clayton and Colin Cowherd, the biggest Romo lover ever, can talk about how Dallas’ loss, their LOSS, to the New Orleans Saints has them poised to win in Washington. Really? Let Jaws talk about how Romo shredded the Redskins on Thanksgiving Day just falling short of a victory. Never mind that the Cowboys were down 28-3 and Romo’s bloated stats came from a team playing catch up against a “prevent” and “protect”defense designed to preserve a win in a game that never really had legitimate chance to win. Yeah, I guess sometimes I hate the press, but I certainly do not fear them.

Let them babble on about how this is legacy defining game for Tony Romo. A game that will define his career. I’m sorry,did I pull a Buck Rogers and wake up a few years late? Didn’t he already have some of these so called legacy defining games? As I recall, he has lost all of them but one. I think we know and if the Cowboys do not know,they are delusional, what they have in Tony Romo. His time in the NFC East is past while in Washington, the future is now and it wears number 10.

Again, to you Loyal Sons of Washington, I say, I hate the Cowboys but I do not fear them.

wow did this guy write gettysburgh address part II. This game sounds like it is biggest game in years for fans both sides. Should be exciting.