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Win Over Giants One of Gibbs’ Best Ever
By Chris Mottram | December 17, 2007
realistic playoff hopes alive, it was sweet redemption for a complete meltdown against the Giants in Week 3, and a reminder that this team can still dominate when they stick to what they do best, which is running the football.
As Redskins fanatics we are, by definition, prone to irrational enthusiasm both for and against
our team, its players and, yes, even Joe Gibbs. After his double-timeout debacle three weeks ago against Buffalo, I wrote some things that were, in hindsight, nothing short of blasphemy. So, after Gibbs has rallied this team to two straight wins, I suppose — because I’m fanatical — that I should swing to the other side of the spectrum and praise Gibbs for the Hall of Famer he is.
But because I’m nothing but a humble blogger, I’ll leave the complimenting to Boswell, who says it better than I could:
His men play for him in circumstances when almost any other coach, at any level, would have “lost the team.” These Redskins, however, are not lost. On a raw, blustery night, on a field surrounded by piles of snow and before stands that were almost empty by the final minutes, the Redskins stormed to a 22-3 lead over the New York Giants and held on for a stirring, almost inspiring 22-10 victory.
Gibbs has had far better teams. But he has seldom had one with more heart in the face of sorrow and defeat.
Confronted with the murder of a popular star player, the loss for the season of a young quarterback-of-the-future and the accumulated distress from blowing five second-half leads, the Redskins responded with a physical domination of the Giants that can rank — for pride, if not for glory — with almost any triumph during the coach’s first 12 years in town.
“For Pride, If Not For Glory” t-shirts anyone?
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December 18th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Nice idea for the shirt, but nothing rivals Hard Fought.