Today in Hard Fought: "Extremely"
Hard. (John McDonnell - TWP)
First, a note. Did you know that if you're a semi-famous Washington Post sports personality (not me), and you've lost both your forms of government-issued identification, you can actually make it through security lines in both Washington D.C. and Dallas using a Washington Post-issued ID? Seriously, 8 gazillion dollars worth of TSA spending, and all you need is a Washington Post ID badge?
Anyhow, the linguistic students of J.J. Gibbs were treated to a slightly altered formulation yesterday. While "hard-fought" and "extremely hard-fought" were both scarce in his Monday presser, Gibbs offered a veritable bounty of "extremely hards" and even the heretofore under-utilized "real, real hard." To wit:
"We played extremely hard" [on special teams].
"On defense, we played extremely hard and very physical."
"The negatives were that we played extremely hard, but not as smart as what we should have at times."
"We played Green Bay in Green Bay, who has one of the best records in the NFC. Then we played Dallas in Dallas. In both of those games we played extremely hard, were very physical, went after it extremely hard."
"Another thing was that we had some guys playing different positions, and some young guys got a chance to start for the first time. They played extremely hard, on defense in particular."
"It was more great effort and playing hard, but just making mistakes and not playing smart."
"[The increase in mistakes] was a little bit of the guys going extremely hard. The way I would describe it is real, real hard."
By Dan Steinberg |
November 20, 2007; 10:51 AM ET
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Posted by: onside kick | November 20, 2007 11:16 AM
Steinz' Blog Show tee will be extremely funny.
Posted by: ScottVanPeltStyle.com | November 20, 2007 11:27 AM
Who talks like this?
Posted by: WaPoLiveFan16 | November 20, 2007 11:28 AM
I would say it's more like he violated our defense like it was being bag searched while already late for a flight
Posted by: Sean Taylor's Hair | November 20, 2007 11:28 AM
Don't feel bad, Dan- one time I got through TSA using my card from the Library of Congress. Sure it had my name and photo, but it's a damn library card!
Sunday reminded me why I don't watch football all that often: the Redskins, much like the TSA, are extremely disappointing... that is, they would be if I'd ever expected them to be worth much in the first place.
Posted by: Eli | November 20, 2007 11:36 AM
So it sounds like in the "hard" department we really got it done, but this week we should focus on the "smarts". And I'm not really yet clear and how things panned out in the "fight/foughts," but it sounds like we were also up to snuff in the "physicals" and the "efforts."
This might require a chart or checklist of sorts. If you can acquire a check in hards, foughts, smarts, physicals and efforts, I believe that equals a win. However, a failure to check every box leads to a loss.
I need to start reading other people's pressers and see if they make more sense than this.
Posted by: Geoff | November 20, 2007 12:17 PM
@ Geoff
Did the skins earn a checkmark in pride this week?
Posted by: onside kick | November 20, 2007 12:39 PM
Oh yeah. They played with a great deal of pride, and I'm just really proud of our guys. Up here it's extremely hard, its just extremely tough.
Posted by: Geoff | November 20, 2007 01:58 PM
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Terrell Owens ran through our secondary like it was the TSA