The Skins WIN!! and more football

So yet again I an late but this will be full of useful things to rant about. Let's start with football.

The Washington Redskins won! They actually won against the NY Giants Sunday. If the Redskins are going to start winning now, well a win is a win... but why couldn't they have found their game earlier in the season!?!?  It would have been so much more exciting if they had played well all season long. But back to the game, Rex of course, was unreliable as usual, throwing two interceptions, and the rest of the team had to work hard to pick up the slack. Amazingly the Giants couldn't seem to find a way to stop the Skins (no matter how slow/bad it was) they struggled to put even 10 points on the board. Eli Manning seemed bored or maybe he's just getting tried of playing football. Final Score: 23-10 Skins.

I really wasn't looking forward to the Denver-New England game. The reason is simple, I've taken a liking to Tim Tebow. I don't care that everyone is saying that he plays like a college player but I think that's what makes him so... good? He's unpredictable which is why the Patriots defense had such a hard time at the beginning of the game; well most of the first half to be honest. Tom Brady seemed frustrated to no end sitting on the sideline during the first half but once the defense got going they paved the way for Brady & Co. and as most of you know (or should know by now) once they get going it's hard to stop them. In this game Tebow wasn't able to pull-off a last minute win, sorry. Final Score: 41-23 Pats.

I was in Willamsburg, VA all day on Monday and I live were no one seems to care about the Steelers so I have just about no idea what happened in their game. About the only thing I heard was that the power went out twice during their game but the backup power worked and they managed to play the game. Big Ben (from what I hear) was limping around instead of walking and they lost to San Fransisco 3-20.

 In other NFL news it was a week of weirdness. The "perfect team" aka the Green Bay Packers lost (13-1) to the Chiefs (6-8), 19-14. The Colts (1-13) who have tanked the season even worse than the Skins manged to win over the Texans (10-4).

On to hockey. The Capitals have been... I'm not sure how to put it... OK, that'll work. Until they show me that they and Ovie can be reliable to win more than one game in a row then and only then will I change what I said. Ovie needs to get going and fire more shots on goal and score more goals in general.


On last thing about hockey. When players get hit hard enough to get a concussion and they play again in the next game and get hit hard again, they'll most likely be out for a longer amount of time. To all coaches out there and doctors, even when science and the health report says the player is healthy to play, always leave it up to the player he (or she) knows better than anyone. And that applies to all sports not just hockey.

Post again on Saturday after the games.

Skins vs. Pats

Let's start with an update on the Capitals game: no more hat trick. Dennis Wideman's first career hat trick didn't last long. As the paper (The Washington Post) put it, after the NHL reviewed the play the goal was credited to Brooks Laich with an assist from Wideman.

To the NFL!
The Steelers played the Browns on Thursday and won in the low scoring game. I'm not sure but I think that Big Ben was still playing with a fractured right thumb (please don't take my word on that like I said not 100% sure). Late in the second quarter Big Ben took a hard sack and got his leg pinned under Browns defenseman Scott Paxson. He thought he had broken his leg. After being helped to the sidelines he headed to the locker room for an x-ray. Good news: it wasn't broken, bad news: it's going to hurt like all get out. Big Ben did come back to finish the game, hobbling onto the field, wincing as he tossed the ball to a player, and grimacing as he stepped up to throw. Even playing through pain Big Ben and the Steelers win 14-9 over the Browns. To read a full report on the Steeler's game here's a link.

The Skins had some hope at the start of the game but once the New England offense got going it was hard to stop, although they did mange to break Tom Brady's 200 game straight without an interception (and this happened right after the announcers showed us his stats). But Grossman showed me again why we just can't be a good team no matter how many good players we have. I'll give you an example, in the fourth quarter Grossman passes the football to S. Moss who fumbles it as he's tackled and it looks like he tosses it right to Jerod Mayo who lands hard on his right arm which he hurt earlier in the game. Two things I see:
1. Moss should have had that football under control
2. Grossman should have seen that Moss was covered and looked for someone else.

The deal with the Skins is they have spent a wee bit to much time on the defense and not enough time with the offense. End of story. Final Score 34-27 Pats

Hat Trick

Anyone see the game last night??I didn't see it but I sure heard about it. They won of course (finally) but a great help came from Dennis Wideman's three goals (in hockey teams three goals is a Hat Trick, don't ask me why it just is). After his third goal hats migrated to the ice. Maple Leaf players helped clear the ice of the hats, sounds like fun doesn't it? Over all it was a great game. Final Score: 4-2

I'm late I know

I know I'm really late but lets pretend that it's Monday. On second thought let's not. Last night the Capitals almost got blown out of the water by the Florida Panthers. They did manage to come within a point in the final minutes of the game but failed to tie the game by the end. The only exciting part was when Ovie was hit in the face. Otherwise it was a bad game for Caps fans, not counting the final minutes. Final Score: 5-4 Panters.

One good game last night was the Bruins-Penguins. Tim Thomas gets his 10th straight win as the Bruins beat the Penguins 3-1, and Crosby was held without a goal again (please feel free to celebrate this small but awesome fact).

The NHL will have a new look next season. The current two conferences will be reformed into four with no more divisions. Two conferences will have eight teams and two will have seven. This is what the conferences will look like:

A. Anaheim, Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Jose, Vancouver.
B. Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, Winnipeg.
C. Boston, Buffalo, Florida, Montreal, Ottawa, Tampa Bay, Toronto.
D. Carolina, New Jersey, N.Y. Islanders. N.Y. Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington.

On to football. Things looked promising for the Redskins at the beginning of the game but it started to go downhill after half time. I really hate the Jets; for the longest time there was only a three point different between the two teams but it once the Jets got on a roll it was bad news for the Skins. Final Score: 34-19 Jets. Some really bad news for the Skins broke out in the open after their game. They will be losing tackle Trent Williams and tight end Fred Davis. They are being suspended for four games (which happens to be the end of the regular season) for breaking league rules about using recreational drugs. Oh great, just what we need right now, just one more thing to add to a LONG list of problems. Oh, these last few games will be fun, NOT.

The Colts needed to win a game but it wasn't to be when they played the Pats on Sunday. In my opinion, (which is totally unbiased) it could have been a bigger loss than it was. The Pat's offense stopped in the last quarter letting the Colts score three touchdowns. Like I said, it could have been played a bit better, oh well the Pats still have a better record than the Colts. (Colts 0-12-0, Pats 9-3-0) Final Score: 31-24.

One last brief note. The Steelers won as well but I didn't read or see mush of the game since I was busy putting up Christmas stuff.

Till next time.