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Most people could safely assume that the loss of Steve Spagnuolo would hurt the Giants defense, but I'm wondering if it may run deeper than that.  In regards to Bill Sheridan, I don't think that he's a bad coordinator but he seems to be someone that is only as good as his personnel, and I know it's early but you can already tell that he's vastly inferior to Spagnuolo. Spags always seemed to maximize the production of whoever he had out there; Despite the Giants pass rush tailing off at the end of last season, in the final 5 games it was obvious that the Giants OFFENSE did not play up to the level of their banged up defense in any of those games. I would actually like to tally up the number of three and outs that the offense had in those final 5 games. Consistent three and outs by an offense are demoralizing for any defense. Last nights game was the first time this year in which the defense outperformed the offense, which is also a big cause for concern.

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Fans of the Washington Redskins have grown accustomed in the past decade or so to expect that their team with have a fighting chance to squeak into the playoffs and then, as the cheesy and cliché statement says, anything can happen. This is the hope that fans of this once-proud franchise held, probably fooling themselves into believing that this system, one where the owner is GM and often plays with the team the way that some us enjoy our fantasy football leagues, could ever and will ever work. More and more people are coming to the realization that this is nothing more than a pipe dream and that this system in place will never and has never worked. 

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Fast forward to the 4th quarter and the Cowboys were deadlocked with the Chiefs at 13-13.  After coming up with a pivotal stop, the Cowboys had an opportunity to finally put away a team they should’ve beaten in the 1st quarter.  At this juncture, Miles Austin made the first big play in what would be the making of the legend of Miles Austin.  He caught the ball on a slant route, broke a couple of tackles and scampered 59 yards for what

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The game came down to each team's first drives, The Redskins inability to score and the Lions marching down the field, 99 yards to put the ball in the endzone; game, set, match. While Campbell and the offense looked pedestrian, the Lions rookie quarterback looked like a 10-year vet, shifting around in the pocket and hitting wide open receivers downfield at will. Kevin Smith looked like Adrian Peterson busting through the gaping holes that his line created, constantly getting 5 or 6 yards at a time. If Stafford would have completed some of the overthrows that he had, this game would have been 35-14 easily. The defense played soft and undisciplined and paid for it. The offense was once again inept, predictable and downright pathetic except for the garbage time drives that make them seem to be not as horrible as they are.

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Here are some of my astute observations from the Cowboys’ Monday night victory against the Panthers:

     1. The Cowboys played a very gritty game.

They actually “out-toughed” the Panthers, which hasn’t happened since week 3 of last season against Green Bay.  Despite giving up a few plays in the passing game, the defense shut down a vaunted Carolina rushing attack and managed to keep DeAngelo Williams out of the endzone.  The offense managed to pound the rock at Carolina’s undersized front seven and take advantage of their depth at the running back position (Felix Jones and Tashard choice managed over 80 yards rushing a piece).  More importantly, Tony Romo showed toughness and focus, and did not make the critical mistake that could have swung this game in Carolina’s favor.

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COACHING

While I personally like Jim Zorn, his play-calling is becoming more infantile and predictable than ever and clearly not efficient. First, his going for it on 4th down twice, to me, was the right call, the problem was the stupidity of running a stretch play when you have to pick up a foot to get a first down and put the game away. I like the calls because they had an inferior team backed up inside the 5-yard line that had not really shown all day that they could move the ball against the defense and the fact that the defense knew there was no worries about any running plays with less than 2 minutes left and no timeouts so they could go upfield and get after the quarterback as Orakpo and Haynesworth did on 3 consecutive plays.

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We heard about the rule change that bans the wedge on kickoff returns, but how will that impact the game? I was able to get Pete Cronan, a former nine-year NFL linebacker with the Washington Redskins and Seattle Seahawks to break down the differences between the wedge and under the current rule.

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