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Probably for the best in terms of next season to bench RG3 for these last few games. Hopefully after the full off season his confidence will be back and he'll be the player he was in his rookie season. I bet Cousins will end up having a great game though and everyone will say "should've done it sooner".

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That defense can not win a Super Bowl.

Completely agree.

 

 

They've been suspect to the pass all season but great at stopping the run. Thus forcing teams to throw it and not milking the clock and keeping Manning off the field.

 

This game with Vickerson and Wolfe gone up front the Chargers ran havoc. Monster game by Matthews. And the pass coverage still at the same iffyness. We need the bodys back on defence to win the big one. The replacements won't do it. Key members here are Champ, Moore, Vickerson and Wolfe, at least three of them are needed.

 

And that punt-penalty from basically the endzone on Irvin, what a gamechanger. 7 minutes gone on that alone. And their lucky dropped punt which in total panicmode got to our 2 yardline anyway.

 

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Game riffs

Game Riffs proudly kicks off Week 15 with a regular feature: the Top Five Most Dysfunctional Teams in the NFL!

Oh, wait, the Most Dysfunctional Teams countdown has been cancelled due to anticlimax. Compared to the Redskins, the Jets are an elite Navy SEALs unit after a bonding retreat.

So instead, Game Riffs proudly kicks off Week 15 with the Top Five People Trying Hardest to Be Fired This Month!

5. National Weather Service East Coast Meteorologists: "Sunday's forecast calls for flurries and a light dusting … whoops, Nick Foles is building an igloo and Adrian Peterson just sledded onto a freeway overpass. Well, brace yourself for 'Mega Blizzard Primetime' on Tuesday! Oh, it seems to only be an inch of midday slush. Sorry you canceled the kindergarten Christmas party." We get it: you guys got the forecasts flipped. Cop to it!

4. Jed Whedon: The chief writer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has turned the most promising action adventure on the television dial into Star Trek Voyager without the foxy Borg. Tuesday's midseason cliffhanger consisted of characters knocking on each other's office doors and having one-on-one conversations about the plot, like a one-act play staged by a 10th grader in a church basement. The show's one likeable character, Agent Coulson, was then separated from the rest of the cast for narrative purposes. Whedon was apparently jealous of actor Clark Gregg's relationship with big brother/show boss Joss Whedon, though he claims he has sidelined Coulsen for his own safety.

3. Mike Shanahan. When being self-destructive, dishonest, and almost pathologically delusional, it's best to insult the intelligence of as many people as possible while performing vindictive actions and claiming they are "for your own good." LET'S SEE HOW MUCH YOU REDSKINS FANS LOVE RG3 JERSEYS AFTER I STAND HERE AND WATCH YOU SMOKE A WHOLE CARTON OF RG3 JERSEYS!

2. Kim Jong Un's Uncle. Shanahan won't let his son Kyle read anything about this story, going so far as to remove all Internet browser images of the North Korean dictator removing all images of his uncle.

1. Fake Mandela Funeral Sign Language Guy. Millions of people around the world showed respect for the pageantry and solemnity of services to remember one of history's great human rights champions, and one nitwit takes the opportunity to stand on a dais and signal read-option plays. Thamsanqa Jantjie now claims he was having a schizophrenic episode during the ceremony; not to doubt the tale, but diagnosed mental instability would probably have been discovered during the vetting process before Jantjie got to stand next to half the leaders of the civilized world. Experts say Jantjie was signing gibberish, which makes him highly qualified to interpret Shanahan press conferences.

Now, Shanahan is not really trying to be fired. He is trying to prove his point. His sad, incomprehensible point: the Redskins are terrible because of Dan Snyder and Robert Griffin, who apparently run onto the field and stop gunners from tackling punt returners and order the defense to allow a 101.2 opposing quarterback rating. The last two years of Redskins football have been a nightmare, Shanahan wants us to believe, and the parts that most of us thought were best (Redskins draft Griffin! Redskins win with Griffin! Griffin returns from injury!) were really the worst. The image of Shanahan sulking in his office and cleaning his desk drawers after his team won seven straight games to reach the playoffs is the second-craziest Shanahan image in our minds right now. The craziest image is Shanahan himself leaking reports of the first image and thinking "yeah, this makes me look smart and sympathetic." Benching Griffin and baldly lying about the reason ranks third. Which is amazing.

Most of all, Shanahan wants to show up his mean-old boss and impudent quarterback by proving Kirk Cousins is better -- better! -- than Griffin thanks to the Shanahan family's proven Rex Grossman/John Beck/Brian Griese guru-ship. He doesn't want to say that, mind you; he wants us to reach that conclusion our controversy-lovin' selves. To guarantee Cousins looked his best at the start of his first news cycle, Shanahan needed an opponent that is very charitable to inexperienced quarterbacks.

Enter the Falcons. They allowed three touchdowns to Geno Smith, four touchdowns and no interceptions in two games to Mike Glennon and got into a shootout with EJ Manuel's Bills that they only won because two receivers handed fumbles directly to Falcons defenders. The Falcons recorded five sacks in five games before facing Matt Flynn in the sleet last Sunday, so they are not nearly as much of a threat to Griffin's health as, say, a sack-heavy Chiefs defense on a slush-covered demolition derby track. (And Flynn picked them apart when not getting dumped). The Falcons are merely a threat to Shanahan's storyline: a two-touchdown day by Cousins will make him look like a genius; a four-touchdown day by Griffin would make him look ridiculous. Ridiculouser.

The last week, therefore, has been an elaborate blame-deflection subterfuge that could only snooker the least observant observers. Unless Griffin records six special teams tackles and returns a punt for a touchdown; then, Shanny's a genius again. Hey, Joe Theismann played special teams early in his Redskins career. What makes Griffin so special? Oh, he's buddy-buddy with the owner. We'll see about that. THINGS BETTER CHANGE OR ELSE I AM FILLING MY TRUNK WITH OFFICE SUPPLIES AND DRIVING STRAIGHT TO TAMPA …

Oh dear, thinking like Shanahan all week has caused a psychotic break; I'm typing gibberish. The scariest thing about this sad episode is that Shanahan will convert some believers if-when Cousins has a semi-competent game on Sunday. Shanahan looked a nation in the eye and pitched self-aggrandizing snake oil to distance himself from his own failures; he can claim victory after a tiny blip of success, and darned if some people won't buy what he's selling. Come to think of it, Snyder should not fire Shanahan. Washington is the perfect place for him.

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Just picked up the Eagles defense. They've been decent recently, plus no AP for Minnesota.

 

Not sure who to start in the flex. All have bad matchups. 

 

Ray Rice v Detroit

Chris Johnson v Arizona

Cruz v Seattle. No way I'm playing him though.

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