CSN Washington: Best in East? Commanders Not Cowboys By Simple Fact

[reddyuta]

 

[Hostile]

Can't argue with the facts.

While I like the new avatar and always like your cowboy silhouette theme, that last one is going to be missed. Yowza.

 

[CowboyWay]

That could be the most ridiculous article I've ever read in my life. By their logic, if you got beat on the road by the 85 bears, but they beat the 08 Lions, then they are the best team in the NFC East?

And people wonder why newspapers are going under.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

While I like the new avatar and always like your cowboy silhouette theme, that last one is going to be missed. Yowza.

I have a few more up my sleeve.:

 

[casmith07]

That article is a

good one, Hos.

I love the smedium shorts in the pic too lol.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Danny Boy's delusional world has been co-opted by the Washington press.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Wow, just wow... Ok where's the "Gotcha" at the end to let us know this article is a joke??

 

[vta]

That article is a

 

[Hostile]

I have a few more up my sleeve.:

It is a great theme. Like I said, the last one was my fave so far.

 

[silverbear]

for the 3rd quarter and for much of the 4th, the Broncos had a whopping -7 passing yards lol

Man, Simms was just brutal...

 

[Beast_from_East]

So winning your last game is what determines which team is better???

Since Washington won and both Dallas and Philly lost last week (and Giants had a bye), the Skins are now the better team of the 4???


Using this logic, the Skins are better than the Patriots since they lost their last game to the Colts.


Who here believes the Skins are better than the Pats???

 

[Joe Realist]

I thought Stephen Hawkins was the astrophysics guy.

I know Steven Hawking...

 

[SkinsHokieFan]

You are what your record says you are. That is it

The Commanders are the worst team in the NFC East, by far.

What a dunce cap AP reporter. Which team does he cover? (Joe White covers the Commanders for the AP)

 

[SkinsHokieFan]

Be sure to tell SkinsHokie and Sonny #9 we are still making this stuff up.

You would have a point if it was a Commanders FAN that wrote this article

Its some AP reporter. Who the hell knows who this guy is

Joseph White covers the Commanders for the AP. I am not sure who or what this guy covers, but he is an imbecile

 

[SkinsHokieFan]

Danny Boy's delusional world has been co-opted by the Washington press.

This guy isn't the regular beat reporter for the AP for the Commanders

He is just some guy at the AP, not even DC area press

 

[Big Dakota]

 

[Beast_from_East]

Stephen Hawkins is a freaking genius, the closet anybody has ever come to being compared with Eienstein.

The guy who wrote this article.......not so much.

 

[fannypack]

"The argument could be made" is the weakest of all literary crutches. A weak mediot covering a weak team. Truly pathetic.

:suxskins: :skins:

Yep.

The argument could be made that it's possible to whip up an ice cold milkshake in hell!

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Stephen Hawkins is a freaking genius, the closet anybody has ever come to being compared with Eienstein.

The guy who wrote this article.......not so much.

Stephen Hawking, and he's probably a greater physicist than Einstein. His work on black holes and his postulations regarding theoretical Hawking radiation is beyond amazing, before it was proven true by observation.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Best In East? Commanders Not Cowboys By Simple Fact

Thursday, November 19, 2009

By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Using the most basic fact, the argument could be made that Washington is playing better than any other team in the NFC East right now.

Yes, those 3-6 Commanders without Clinton Portis. Better even than the division-leading Dallas Cowboys, who they play Sunday in the 99th game of their ever-bitter rivalry.

Simply put, the last-place Commanders are the only NFC East team that won its last game. Could it be the sign of a turnaround toward a late-season surge?

"I just sense that we won one game, we won our third game of the season. That's really all I can sense," coach Jim Zorn said. "Being 3-6, it's not a record that just bodes of competitiveness, but our players have not thrown in the towel. We're just trying to climb our way out of this hole we've dug."

Washington took a positive step with a 27-17 victory over AFC West leader Denver, scoring its most points for Zorn since his second game as coach last season. Ladell Betts ran for 114 yards in place of Portis (concussion) even with the Commanders' fifth different starting offensive line combination this season.

The New York Giants haven't won in more than a month -- a four-game losing streak since their 5-0 start -- and Philadelphia has lost two in a row. Even Dallas (6-3), which had won four straight, needed a late touchdown just to avoid being shut out last weekend by desperate Green Bay.

"It's going to be a tough challenge for us," Cowboys receiver Roy Williams said. "They're pretty much in the position as Green Bay last week. They're looking for this game to be their momentum swing and we just can't let that happen two weeks in a row."

After an impressive recovery from their 2-2 start that including a loss in Denver, the Cowboys have to make sure a downward spiral doesn't continue after the 17-7 loss in Green Bay. Williams' touchdown catch came with 38 seconds left; "It was a lonely feeling in the end zone because it didn't matter," he said this week.

"We had a good run, but now from here on out we have to earn our victories. It's just that simple," Bradie James said. "Let's start a new streak, that's what it's about."

Dallas has two games in a five-day span, following the Commanders with another winnable game: Thanksgiving Day against struggling Oakland. Then it's a trip to New York to face the Giants, whose last-play field goal in Week 2 ruined the Cowboys' debut in their new stadium.

While Zorn is trying to keep one victory in perspective, consider that U2's "Beautiful Day" was blaring from the speakers this week during a Commanders practice -- and it was a sentiment no one could really argue with for a change. Their previous two wins had come against Tampa Bay and St. Louis, a pair of 1-8 teams.

"Coming off last week's victory, we've definitely got confidence. It was a big confidence-builder for us," Rock Cartwright said.

"You've got to keep it rolling. That's the whole objective," receiver Devin Thomas said. "You can never give up on a season just because things have gone bad. We knew we were just one click away from hitting on all cylinders."

With a win in Dallas, the Commanders would be only two games out of the NFC East lead with six games to play, three against the other division teams -- including the Cowboys at home two nights after Christmas.

Dallas, whose 57 wins against Washington are more than against any other team, doesn't want things to get that close. The dismal day in Green Bay likely got the Cowboys' attention.

"It sobers you, you realize you can lose," coach Wade Phillips said.

"I don't think it's a sign of trouble. We lost before we got on the four-game win streak," Williams said. "It was a setback when we lost the second game. ... After we lost that second game, we won four straight."

The Cowboys will have two first-time starters filling in for players injured last weekend. Alan Ball takes over at safety for Ken Hamlin (high right ankle sprain) and Doug Free replaces Marc Colombo (broken left leg), creating the first change for the starting offensive line this season.

Washington likely will be without Portis again, but defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth said he expected to play despite a sprained left ankle that kept him out of practice.

If Haynesworth plays, it will be his first time in a regular-season game against Cowboys center Andre Gurode since a dirty play in 2006. Haynesworth was then with Tennessee and suspended five games after cleating the helmetless face of Gurode, who needed 30 stitches and was bothered by headaches and blurred vision the following week.

Gurode and Haynesworth, who were both in the last two Pro Bowls, said this week the incident is behind them. But there were reminders this week with the questions and television replays.

"It's something they are going to do," Gurode said. "I expected that when he signed with the Commanders and we played them that it was going to be brought up. ... It is something in the past."

I have to wonder if old Stevie boy here will pen the article stating that the Commanders are now the worst team in the NFC East, being that they lost this weekend...