Double Despair

 Last night was the first of the winter where the Capitals and the Wizards played on the same night at the same time. This had the potential to be a very busy and eventful night, but being the Capitals and the Wizards, it ended up being a double disappointment.

 The Capitals had a penalty and goal against before the Wizards got around to announcing their starting five. It didn't take long to see that making the switch over to standard definition CSN+ was not going to be worth the effort. The Wizards put up some strong numbers early- their largest lead was 21 points, but the play was sloppy and they would have been trounced by a better team than New Jersey.

 By the second half, the Wizards fell apart and let Kris Humphries have decent numbers. The man is a joke, following after the real shooters and putting up leftovers, plus he tripped up Andray Blatche who in turn knocked into Nick Young and put him in a lot of pain, even though he managed to come back limping toward the end. The game should have been easily dominated the whole time but there was a level of unfamiliarity and discomfort amongst teammates that was obvious and led to too many missed shots and awkward passes. Hopefully the shortened prep time is mostly to blame for this because they look like a determined group of guys and even Dallas is looking like crap this early on.

 What sucks the most is the negative comments by CSN Washington and their followers on Facebook. There was no positive comments the last time I looked and with titles like "new season, same Wizards" it doesn't seem like pro-team attitudes are encouraged. There is still building being done and it's different than when I bitch about the Caps. They are supposed to be "finished" by now and ready for success but it's not happening. There is a higher level of expectation. Fire Saunders? Maybe. Wasn't impressed with him last year, but let's see after more than one game.

Not on the bandwagon

 Even though I have no proof outside my own house, I have been pro-Tebow all season. I was glad when the Broncos were losing, hoping that would get him a chance. When my dad would complain about another Redskins loss, I'd tell him "Eh, my team won." Sunday is going to be a big deal here. From watching the Patriots barely beat the Redskins, I was not impressed with Brady. It looks like he gets flustered and then doesn't think things through, but he's going to get the calls. There's no way the officials are not going to try and influence this game- because find me one where they don't.

I'm putting it out here now- Tebow is going to take it but I hope he doesn't wait until the end. The receivers have to catch consistently and Prater better keep that leg cared for.

Catching Up

Illness and the holidays have taken days away from me and I realize that I never put up the pics of Jim Johnson's first day as assistant coach. I wasn't surprised to see Bob Woods let go in the aftermath of BB's firing and surely enough he followed him to Anaheim not much longer. The defense in the defense first system was flawed and there seems to be a marked change in the Caps now under Johnson.