Week 10 Thoughts and Week 11 Complaints

I really am an optimist. A huge one. In fact, I'm such an optimist that it's actually detrimental to me and everyone around me.

So what do I take out of this past game? You know, the one that we lost in the fourth quarter after thoroughly dominating?

We finally have a thing called "offense."

Yep, Clinton Portis was running and Jason Campbell was throwing. But see this time, Portis was running and gaining first downs and Campbell was moving the chains. He threw 3 TD's to a WR - 2 to James "Mr. Clutch but then gets injured" Thrash and Keenan "HOLY @$#@! HE STILL PLAYS?!?" McCardell. This is a great improvement over the past few weeks when our offense rivaled Baltimore's for the most anemic.

But there are some bad things about this past week too. We lost Sean "Meast" Taylor for two weeks, and normally that wouldn't be too bad with Laron "Meast 2 - I'll come up with a more clever nickname later" Landry still in the secondary, but we also lost Carlos "Stone Hands" Rogers. Furthermore, the Eagles enjoyed twenty fourth quarter points with Taylor out - it seemed the rest of our defense walked off the field with him.

Sigh, on to week 11.

Ah, Dallas. Boy do we want them (get it? "We Want Dallas!" No? Trust me, its funny). A few weeks ago, this would have been a matchup, but steadily, we've been losing starters. In fact, lets name all the Day 1 starters that wont (or might not) be playing so we can think about the season that never was:

-Jon Jansen
-Randy Thomas
-Carlos Rogers
-Marcus Washington
-Santana Moss
-Sean Taylor

Crucial players, no doubt. A few weeks ago this would be a great game, one that the Skins could walk out with a tough victory. But now, its gonna be a sight for sore eyes. Lets just hope we can have everyone (except the IR'd Jansen) back for the last game.