Skins beat last 3 superbowl champs

[Mr. Nostril]

Tonight made one thing clear. Ray Lewis is going to piss me off forever.

[Painkiller]

I have thought about this tonight as well. Honestly, it's getting pretty ****ing annoying to say the least. The Redskins over the last 10 years or so consistently beat teams they are not supposed to, and lose to weaker opponents. What this tells me is that this team needs to put together a full season and stop ****ing around for part of it. Stop losing to inferior opponents. I'm just going to call it like it is. There is absolutely ZERO reason why it should not have been Washington playing in that game tonight. Had RG3 not been injured we had an excellent chance of being that team. This season was a great turnaround, but the franchise as a whole needs to sustain the momentum from this season and keep working toward the ultimate goal.

I'm a little testy tonight I guess...

[ddub52]

How about "Skins win last 4 games against last 3 Super Bowl champs"? or something of that nature

[skinsfan080]

I have always felt like the Redskins were a team that beats the best and loses to the worst. To a degree, they even held true to that in 2012.

Beat Bmore, lose to Carolina. Beat NY, lose to St. Louis. Re-apply, rinse, repeat. We need to break one of those habits.

Honestly, the only "bad" loss to me this year, was Carolina at home... and even they quietly put together a very good second half of the season. The Rams beat SF once and damn near beat them again... they're a much improved team. Now being up 21-6 and losing is a bit different but of all our losses: Bengals, Steelers, Panthers, Giants, Rams,Falcons... I really think our losses were nothing to be that ashamed over.

[SkinsGuy]

I have always felt like the Redskins were a team that beats the best and loses to the worst. To a degree, they even held true to that in 2012.

Beat Bmore, lose to Carolina. Beat NY, lose to St. Louis. Re-apply, rinse, repeat. We need to break one of those habits.

I actually felt like they did in the second half of the season, beating teams they should beat like the Eagles and the Browns.

Hopefully, that trend will continue into 2013 (and beyond ).

[TheGreek1973]

yeap. I think a lot of us Skins fans were thinking this during the superbowl. But we are almost there guys, IMO we were a healthy RGIII away from probably playing in this one. Even with Mara's BS (it wouldn't be a thread if someone didn't mention this SOB) we still won the division and this team came together like it did back in 2005 and 2007. This time around however we have a QB that could potentially change the game as it is played. We are way younger and about to get even better than that 7-0 run. Not to mention we are getting this way when our division rivals seem to have lost a step of two.

[Rypien1191]

We'll beat the 49ers next year as well before they win it all.

---------- Post added February-4th-2013 at 08:42 AM ----------

I have thought about this tonight as well. Honestly, it's getting pretty ****ing annoying to say the least. The Redskins over the last 10 years or so consistently beat teams they are not supposed to, and lose to weaker opponents. What this tells me is that this team needs to put together a full season and stop ****ing around for part of it. Stop losing to inferior opponents. I'm just going to call it like it is. There is absolutely ZERO reason why it should not have been Washington playing in that game tonight. Had RG3 not been injured we had an excellent chance of being that team. This season was a great turnaround, but the franchise as a whole needs to sustain the momentum from this season and keep working toward the ultimate goal.

I'm a little testy tonight I guess...

That's cause we've been terrible for 10 years and good teams fall asleep and fall into the trap against us, so we've manage to beat some good teams. We're on the radar now, we're going to be getting a lot more attention from ALL teams.

[SkinsFanMania]

We pretty much wouldve beat the saints if Suisham didnt suck so much.

And we beat the giants when they won the other superbowl in 2008

It was 2007.

There was one season, I believe it was the steelers vs. cardinals where we beat 3 of the 4 teams in the championship game and beat the losing team in the Super Bowl.

[pjfootballer]

So what do we get?










I'll tell you what. Nothing. BFD.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

It goes deeper than the past 3 years...we've beaten a Super Bowl participant in 5 of the past 6 years (and really should be on a 6-year streak).

2007: Beat the Giants 22-10 in December.
2008: Beat the Cardinals 24-17 in September
2009: Lost to the Saints 30-33 (OT) in December
2010: Beat the Packers 16-13 (OT) in October
2011: Beat the Giants 28-14 in September and 23-10 in December
2012: Beat the Ravens 31-28 (OT) in December

The only season in the past 6 in which we didn't beat a conference champion was 2009. Not only were we horrible that year, but we really had NO dead to rights before a missed FG and game-tying drive.

---------- Post added February-4th-2013 at 09:21 AM ----------

So what do we get?










I'll tell you what. Nothing. BFD.

To me, it's not a validation of our teams (we sucked in half of those years). I just think it's an interesting footnote.

[SAli457180]

It goes deeper than the past 3 years...we've beaten a Super Bowl participant in 5 of the past 6 years (and really should be on a 6-year streak).

2007: Beat the Giants 22-10 in December.
2008: Beat the Cardinals 24-17 in September
2009: Lost to the Saints 30-33 (OT) in December
2010: Beat the Packers 16-13 (OT) in October
2011: Beat the Giants 28-14 in September and 23-10 in December
2012: Beat the Ravens 31-28 (OT) in December

This has become an odd coincidence involving the Skins, but obviously out of their control because nobody knows how the playoffs turn out. Hopefully, the trend reverses itself and other teams can have the oddity of having played the Skins when they eventually become SB champions.

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

Like PJ said, who gives a ****

I want to be there next year dammit

quit ******* around

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Like PJ said, who gives a ****

I want to be there next year dammit

quit ******* around

Some people enjoy finding patterns and oddities in statistics. I don't think anyone has seriously claimed that we've been a Super Bowl caliber team due to this.

[gbear]

No, as I pointed out to many Baltimore fans, it's just been a statistical oddity because we've sucked so much. Still, I did tell my neighbors when we beat the Ravens we had officially given them the power of the "lost to the Skins" blessing.

[cphil006]

No, as I pointed out to many Baltimore fans, it's just been a statistical oddity because we've sucked so much. Still, I did tell my neighbors when we beat the Ravens we had officially given them the power of the "lost to the Skins" blessing.

We even beat them the season they won their first Super Bowl... Stephen Davis could not be stopped...