2014 REDSKINS - Part II - The Rise of Capt. Kirk (1-3-0)

[Hivemind]

Seattle is way worse on the road. 'Skins make a game of it for a while.

27-17 Seattle

 

[Ajax1995]

Seahawks 28
Redskins 13

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

An engineering college near Boston. The interview was in 2004.

The process involved cutting the applicant pool down to 2x the number of eventual students based on the usual GPA/scores/essays/recommendations, and then bringing them all to the college over two weekends before the second and final cut. Part of that weekend was individual and group interviews.

Groups of 6 were given a topic that they would debate 3-against-3 after some time to prepare. Our topic was on objectionable mascots, specifically racist mascots in sports. One girl in my group's father was apparently involved in a fight to keep the Fighting Illini as the University of Illinois's mascot, so she was very pro that side. I was on the other side. Once the debate started, it quickly became about University of Illinois specifically, since she was filled with really absurd rhetoric that she'd obviously gotten from her father and it was super easy to debate against. She was way too emotionally involved, and actually broke down crying during the debate because it wasn't going her way.

My individual interview was right after, and a lot of it was a discussion about ways to interact with people that are obviously wrong but that I may have to work with again in the future. I have no idea if the girl was offered admission, but she wasn't in my freshman class.

Interesting. Group interviews are becoming increasingly popular, especially in business school. Never heard of that for an engineering school before. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Capitlols]

38-10 Seattle.

Redskins defense can never handle dual-threat QBs or anyone for that matter.

 

[g00n]

38-10 Seattle.

Redskins defense can never handle dual-threat QBs or anyone for that matter.

which seems strange since they have one and should know how to scheme against it

 

[Capitlols]

which seems strange since they have one and should know how to scheme against it

Yup. When opposing teams run the zone read it's like the defense has never seen it before.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

We definitely need some polls that ask a lot more redskins for their thoughts on the name. 400 redskins might not be a meaningful sample.

I didn't realize the team roster was so large.

Given your apparent position, why are you choosing to repeat a racial slur so cavalierly?

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Assuming the 400 are selected mostly randomly, ie not self-selected or all selected out of some sub-group (such as landline owners, like the other poll cited in this thread), 400 is plenty big to represent a population of 5 million. It gives a confidence interval of around ±4.6%

95% sure that the actual percentage of those 5.2 million Native Americans against the name is between 62.4% and 71.6%, in the case of that study

See for yourself here: http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

Math Mumbo Jumbo!

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

38-10 Seahawks....

 

[Beef Invictus]

Seattle is way worse on the road. 'Skins make a game of it for a while.

27-17 Seattle

I like this prediction most

 

[BobRouse]

I'm pretty sure we'll get crushed. I'm not liking Cousins vs the Seattle secondary at all.

We suck on national TV the last couple years and have too many injuries to compete.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

This will be like the Chargers Jets game yesterday. It'll be over in the first series.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

This will be like the Chargers Jets game yesterday. It'll be over in the first series.

I will bet you my house that Cousins has more than 27 yards passing. I'll bet you my car we have more than 60 yards passing as a team. The NYJ set football back 50 years with that performance yesterday.

 

[RandyHolt]

**** Seadderal. This is our barn. We hung tough with them in 2012, yes including Haslett and his "defense". I am the laughing stock of the internets for 1 day, for I think we can win.

Cousins can't play worse. Haslett can't coach worse. The biggest stumbling block, is our stage freight. That is on Gruden to get the boys to relax.

My optimism aside, sure, we could get shelled. It's prime time, and we fold like a wet potato chip in prime time. But we will not remain winless forever in prime time. It took us 9 tries, but we finally beat a rookie QB. Anything is possible.

Skins ML + Over FTW.

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

I will bet you my house that Cousins has more than 27 yards passing. I'll bet you my car we have more than 60 yards passing as a team. The NYJ set football back 50 years with that performance yesterday.

Cousins completed passes to more New York Giants than he did Washington wide receivers last week. What do you think the Seahawks D is going to do to him?

It's going to be ugly.

 

[strungout]

28-6 Seahawks

 

[Ajax1995]

I'm starting to think there will be more references to the name controversy than Redskins points in this game...

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Cousins completed passes to more New York Giants than he did Washington wide receivers last week. What do you think the Seahawks D is going to do to him?

It's going to be ugly.

Is that actually true about the more passes to NYG or are you exaggerating for effect? Neither would surprise me.

I think we will hang in until the 2nd half, then implode. Either a mistake on special teams (missed FG, blown coverage for a TD), a dropped INT, or a lost fumble and we'll go in our shell and get pounded.

But, we might win. We might win because I'm just tossing my tickets in the trash. I can't get an offer more than $50 on craigslist, and I'd rather eat the cost of the tickets than fight rush hour traffic getting to FedEx, leave in a bad mood, and get home at 1:00 AM so I can wake up in 5 hours for work. I truly hate home prime time games.

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

Is that actually true about the more passes to NYG or are you exaggerating for effect? Neither would surprise me.

I'm talking targets. 4 different Giants, 3 different WRs.

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

49-13 SEA

Colt McCoy sighting in the 2nd half.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

I'm talking targets. 4 different Giants, 3 different WRs.

This made me laugh. We are not good.

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

Not one of the guys on Monday Night Countdown picked the Skins.

Not even Ditka.

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

I don't get the black Redskins clothing worn by the Coaches.

Despite what Jim Zorn thought, black is not a team color of the Redskins.

 

[Cush]

let the disaster begin

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

New thread?