Redskins Bandwagon

It’s better to complain about how we’re winning than to be complaining about how we’re losing. That seems to be the characteristic of this season. We’re winning games, but finding it easy to raise concerns about how those victories are being achieved.

The most stunning mark of this season has been how dominant we have been in every statistical category for almost every game. Except for the Giants game, the Redskins have dominated both sides of the ball in every game they’ve played. If you were to look at the stats alone without examining the final scores of these games, you’d have to conclude that the Redskins are like the New England Patriots last year, crushing everybody.

It makes no sense how we have scored a grand total of 20 more points than our opponents this year, dispite having Cambell and Portis having career days virtually every week, and our defense stuffing the opponents offenses like offense is going out of style.

Here’s the stats from yesterday’s game:

If the Redskins season illustrates one point at the mid-point, it’s this: Yards don’t equal points. Points win games, not yards. Dispite the weekly statistical domination, if the Redskins don’t figure out how to score points that more accurately reflect the yardage totals, they will never achieve the sort of domination that they are on the brink of achieving.

This is a good team right now, which has all the makings of a great team. What will determine whether or not the Redskins ultimately become an elite, Super Bowl contender, is their ability to start scoring touchdowns instead of settling for field goals, or fumbling inside opponents territory.

We’re close, folks. Real close to being great. Although our wins are a bit closer than we would like, and the ‘Skins have made life tough on nervous fans, the comfort we can take is that we do have a record that reflects our domination. 6-2 isn’t bad at the mid-point. A 12-4 pace isn’t bad for the season.