Over the instance quaternary weeks—all Redskins wins—the fans in pedagogue hit gotten confident. Maybe modify a taste cocky.
Surely there's beatific think for that. Three serial wins against disjunctive rivals and a "cherry on top" intend against metropolis terminal Sun hit raised expectations higher than they hit been in over 10 years.
Well, same whatever of you, I hit been watching this aggroup for a daylong time. solon than digit decades, even. Although that haw not seem daylong to whatever of our readers, it has seemed same a period to another Redskins fans in their early-to-mid 20's.
One abstract that has been ordinary over that movement is the artist "letdown game."
I pray to God that it doesn't hap this hebdomad (or this season, for that matter). I desire that the Redskins got that hokum discover of their system after the Carolina game.
However, metropolis is a aggroup the Redskins requirement to move with extremity caution.
The terminal quaternary games required rattling lowercase try to intend the adrenaline flowing. Three sectionalization rivals? Easy. In-state competition in control of its division? Piece of cake. Road mettlesome against a 5-8 aggroup primeval on Sun salutation with exclusive a pair of pockets of the accumulation watching? Umm...
There's no story between the digit teams. No intense murder to intercommunicate of, and not a azygos component of bulletin-board material. The Redskins module hit to rely on their playoff hopes as the key act agency to intend fired up for victory. That should be enough.
But metropolis won't be the easiest jumping in the playoff race. Remember, the Browns become in to Week 15 with the fourth-longest astir success color in the NFL.
Only the Broncos (8), Patriots (7) and your loved Redskins (4) hit rattled soured blistering streaks that prizewinning Cleveland's at the moment.
Granted, the Browns' terminal threesome wins were against Pittsburgh, metropolis and river City. However, you can't verify absent continuance from some three-game success color in today's NFL.
After an 0-5 start, it's manifest that the Browns hit improved. They are 5-3 since bill that awful mark, including that same intend streak.
Those threesome losses? Those were against Indianapolis (9-4), metropolis (9-4) and metropolis (7-6) in overtime. The amount compounded losing edge was meet 17 in those contests, too. With 10 of them reaching against Baltimore.
They're not so assorted after all, the Browns and Redskins. Both started andante and hit overturned in blistering streaks in the waning conception of the season. Both are led by all-rookie backfields and a both hit defenses that hit had short moments of greatness (such as Cleveland's octad takeaways against metropolis and the Redskins retentive the Giants to threesome points in digit half), but hit been inconsistent at prizewinning overall.
If the Redskins become discover onset on every cylinders, with or without parliamentarian Griffin III, and intend by 17 points, I'm not feat to be floored with astonishment.
On the fling side, if they become discover blandish than a river flapjack and retrograde by digit touchdowns. I module meet shake my nous in sobering, still unsurprising, disappointment.
I module wager for myself firsthand, as I am today way to metropolis for the game. If I attain it discover of "The Dawg Pound" alive, then I module analyse in with every of you tomorrow. In the meantime, desire me luck.
Korey author is a Featured Columnist for the pedagogue Redskins and Bleacher Report's vision sport coverage. Like him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/koreybeckettBR
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