lefty420
October-24th-2007, 12:23 PM
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/bafongu/2007/10/24/Defense_CAN_Win_A_Superbowl
It’s Up To The Redskins Defense Now.
What can you say about the play of the Washington Redskins defensive unit? Tossing around accolades and superlatives like great, excellent or fantastic just doesn’t seem to capture the Herculean effort they’ve been putting forth week after week this season. Time and again they have either actually scored touchdowns or put the offense in tremendous scoring position. If you were to remove the points scored by the defense this year the Redskins would be 2-4 instead of 4-2.
Football is a team sport, but this season the team is all defense. With the continued ineptness of the offense, an ineffectiveness that ironically coincides with the arrival of Al Saunders “book”, it is now up to the defense to win the day.
It isn’t likely that a defensive unit can win a Super Bowl, but it has been done. For the last time it happened you only need look 30 miles north to Baltimore. Led by perpetual Jabba the Hut impersonator Tony Siragusa, the Ravens defensive unit of 2000 ranks as one of the best ever assembled. Called on time and again to rescue the impotent bumblers on the offensive side, a Ravens offense that went 21 consecutive quarters without scoring a touchdown, they finished 12-4 to make the playoffs and go on to win the Super Bowl.
:applause:
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It’s Up To The Redskins Defense Now.
What can you say about the play of the Washington Redskins defensive unit? Tossing around accolades and superlatives like great, excellent or fantastic just doesn’t seem to capture the Herculean effort they’ve been putting forth week after week this season. Time and again they have either actually scored touchdowns or put the offense in tremendous scoring position. If you were to remove the points scored by the defense this year the Redskins would be 2-4 instead of 4-2.
Football is a team sport, but this season the team is all defense. With the continued ineptness of the offense, an ineffectiveness that ironically coincides with the arrival of Al Saunders “book”, it is now up to the defense to win the day.
It isn’t likely that a defensive unit can win a Super Bowl, but it has been done. For the last time it happened you only need look 30 miles north to Baltimore. Led by perpetual Jabba the Hut impersonator Tony Siragusa, the Ravens defensive unit of 2000 ranks as one of the best ever assembled. Called on time and again to rescue the impotent bumblers on the offensive side, a Ravens offense that went 21 consecutive quarters without scoring a touchdown, they finished 12-4 to make the playoffs and go on to win the Super Bowl.
:applause:
Click link for the rest of the article.