Week 4 - Commanders: Clean Living

[MDS]

[PhillyPhreak54]

A nice challenge coming up against that Wash DL.

If they can run on them watch out.

Also would like to see them beat the piss out of Howell like Buffalo did.

Maybe Reddick will wake up this week?

[Don Ho]

Todd comes through again!!

[Don Ho]

What exactly is going on with Reddick?  I tried to watch him last night but I was to fixated on the two man children.

[Diomedes]

Now that Snyder is gone I have to admit I hate the team from Washington less. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Maybe a smidge less but I still hate their fans and wish them many years of false hope and misery.

[Eagaholic]

Yup. If they ever become legit contenders, it will all come crashing back just how insufferable their fanbase is, and all the more so if the Eagles are in a down cycle. In the mean time, some point and laugh nostalgia.

We loves us some us .

ExtremeSkins Fan View: Cap Hell Rocks!

By Arthur Mills

ExtremeSkins.com

March 16, 2006

Don't hate us because we're beautiful.

No more blank, wondering stares, confused head scratching, frothing emotional outbursts, conspiracy theories or embarrassing, dismissive references to 2000. The Washington taterskins are the central theme of every NFL team message board out there. Here's a message to you all from all ExtremeSkins fans everywhere.

It's time to embrace the reality of it all. Simply, we're better than you.

That's it. Look no further. We are better than you. We're more fun. It feels better to be us. We've got flair. We're audacious, capricious, bodacious, supercalifragilisticxpalidocious.

Are you finally getting it?

Yes, yes, I know cap hell was supposed to be upon us. I know that's what you've been told. I feel for you, I really do. As you come to realize we're better than you, a second bit of stark reality must also penetrate. We're smarter than them.

Repeat after me.

The Washington taterskins are managed, coached and owned by highly professional people who know more about running a football franchise than ALL the unnamed, anonymous sources any reporter has yanked from the broom closet and quoted.

Don't take my word for it. Take the following words for it.

Brandon Lloyd, Antwaan Randle El, Adam Archuleta, Andre Carter, Todd Collins, Christian Fauria.

The question you all should be asking isn't, "How is all this possible?" No. The question should be, "How didn't we know this was all possible?"

Six years of assurances cap hell was on the way and you still allowed yourself to believe the tripe. Perhaps busting the cap hell myth as it relates to the Washington taterskins is just too painful a thing for media and fans of other teams to do.

Like a child coming to the harsh knowledge Santa doesn't exist, the media and opposing teams' fans are struggling desperately to hang on to the fiction that cap hell is on the way for the taterskins despite--literally--YEARS of demonstrated contrary evidence.

Here's the best part.

You don't have to hate us for what we're doing. You can do it, too.

"The thing I want to emphasize is this: We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do," Joe Gibbs said after the introductory press conference for Andre Carter. "We have certain rules in the league. Here's the cap, here's the numbers, here's what you can spend, so everybody in the league can do what we're doing, it's just that they choose not to, many of them."

Deep down, this is really the issue, isn't it? You can do it too and you know it, but, your team doesn't do it, so, you have a hard choice. Hate your team, or hate us.

Say you're a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. You always have all those many millions available, which somehow never seem to get spent. All week you're hearing how you have LeCharles Bentley locked up as your free agent masterstroke to solidify your offensive line.

You are giddy. You're thrilled. You know this is the guy you need. He fills a need and makes it a strength. You're excited about the prospects of adding such a substantial piece. Then, the Cleveland Browns call, offer a few more bucks to Bentley and Bentley winds up in Cleveland leaving you with nothing more than whimpering excuses that Bentley is from Cleveland and always wanted to play there.

Oh, hush.

Antwaan Randle El is from Chicago. He's always wanted to play there. Yet he's playing in D.C. Adam Archuleta admits he adores Lovie Smith after years playing for him with St. Louis and wanted to play with him in Chicago. Yet he's playing in D.C. Andre Carter just had to meet the Broncos because his father played there 12 years and he envisioned being the second generation of his family with the team. Yet he's playing in D.C.

And it's driving you crazy because you were so excited and thrilled about the prospects of adding a good player your management and owner can't figure out how to land while we get EVERY single player we shoot at.

We get to actually live the thrill and giddiness you only get to brush up against. And it's killing you.

Did we pay a premium for generally young players entering their prime with years left to play in the NFL? You bet we did. Kind of like when the Eagles lock up their own young players for a premium before they really emerge on the scene and everyone calls that genius. Think of it like that, only, with the component of actually being smart because an expensive 24-year-old promising receiver suddenly becomes a very cheap 26-year-old receiver when he grabs 80 balls.

See, we already had good players under contract. Now we have more.

As you struggle to find words to describe the coming cap doom heading our way, try to process one final thought. When you have that free agent you need all lined up and you don't get him, well, isn't that really what cap hell feels like?

I wouldn't know, because I don't ever have to feel that way.

[Don Ho]

Is Arthur Mills still residing in a Maryland State Hospital?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yes! The ARTicle.

That will live in infamy.

[MDS]

opened at 7, now up to 8. i dont like going against the birds even when its that big of a number...but damn is that a big number for hurts

[QB Eagles]

it's a home game and washington stinks worse than any team they have played so far

[phattymatty]

Yeah I think 8 is probably way too low.  Sam Howell is worse garbage than the last 6 QBs they have thrown out there. Jalen Carter and defense going to destroy them.

Side note - I put my Dallas tickets up for $500 each and someone bought them yesterday lol.

[Rome]

I paid $500 each to see the Eagles/Pats in 39. 

shtein is nutso these days.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I hope they run the Tush Push 10x on Sunday.

The amount of crybabying about it is out of control.

Add J6 Jack DelRio to the chorus of whiners

[MDS]

I paid $500 each to see the Eagles/Pats in 39. 

shtein is nutso these days.

thats about $800 in todays dollars. im not sure you could get into a super bowl for $800 these days...unless the game was in disgusting jacksonville