Maryland split this week in football. One team keeps finding ways to win, and other finds new ways to lose. Change is in the air for one team, and the other refuses to change. Both teams have great defenses, but only one has a winning record. Losers first in this review. The Redskins lost again to a bad team, the Bengals, in the game on late Sunday afternoon. They find ways to lose every game, the three won by the Redskins was luck, or set themselves up to fail. The defense allowed 17 points earlier in the game, yet they didn't let the Bengals to score again. Brunell started off terrible again after the first play of the game from the Bengals was an Carson Palmer interception, and the Skins couldn't score. Brunell stats by the middle of the 2nd quarter was: 1-8 completions, 1 interception, 6 yards. Finally, Gibbs pulled the over the hill QB for Patrick Ramsey. This was a great move, I have liked Ramsey since he has come to Washington, because he has a great arm, zip on the ball, and he can hit the recievers in the hands or numbers. All of the things Brunell lacks. The best thing about Ramsey in my mind though is that he will either win or lose a game for the team, but Brunell won't do either. The only time the Redskins have won this year is on Clinton Portis's legs. I, like you should be, am not expecting Ramsey to be the Godsend of the Redskins, for he is going to throw interceptions at costly times, the recievers need to learn how to catch the damn ball, and Gibbs needs to run the crap out of the Portis. Which brings up another disappointment about Sunday, Joe Gibbs only ran Portis 17 times against the worse run defense in the leaque. I understand getting away from the run when down late in the game, but the Redskins got away from the run in the beginning of the 2nd quarter. I totally didn't get this move. I have blamed Brunell for alot in my columns, and Brunell was at fault for alot. I also blame the reciever for dropping to many passes, Gibbs for not controlling the game well, the line for not blocking well, and the Refs for having it out for the Redskins this year. Once the coaching staff fixes some of these other problems, the Redskins might have a chance to even out for the year. The Redskins schedule just gets harder from here. Baltimore on the other hand is the winning football team in Maryland, and Kyle Boller finally did something to help his team. This was a great win for the Ravens over the Jets, for if the Ravens are in a tie going into the playoffs with the Jets, the Ravens would win the tie breaker because of this game. The Ravens did have some luck on their side, for the Jets were without Chad Pennington. Quincy Carter had to start for the Jets who started the game off strong and fizzled in the end. The Ravens were also on the benefitting end of bad clock management in the final seconds of the game when Carter couldn't get his team in position to win the game. They had to settle for a field goal to send it to overtime. After 3 three and outs the Ravens finally got in position to win with a Stover field goal. Jamal Lewis didn't get over 100 yards in the game, and Kyle Boller threw 2 touchdown. This is the exact opposite of how they been winning. Kyle Boller finally looked descent this game, yet everyone jumped on the bandwagon of Boller after the game. I am not sold yet. He did win the game for the Ravens, true, but he needs to do it in more then one game in a season. Do it again Boller and I will believe. All in all this was good game for the Ravens, they got behind early and came back to win against a good team. Final Thought: Thank you Gibbs for finally giving Ramsey a chance to play, and I hope he give the Skins the spark they have been waiting for. For the Ravens, I said it already, I am not sold on Boller yet, but he did do better then he has been for the season, just show me you can do it again.
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