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FRANK TALK: "It's kind of like two different feelings on the team. The defense has momentum, and we're rolling. The offense wants to play better and turn it around after last week."
-- Defensive lineman Demetric Evans
FANTASY TALK: "Sometimes having a week off won't help you. You get used to relaxing, and the off week makes you even more tired."
-- Chris Cooley, on whether the Seahawks have an edge because of their bye week
-- Eli Saslow
Feeding the Frenzied
Cornelius Griffin saw the mob flying toward him and broke into a steady trot. He moved swiftly through the parking lot at Redskins Park in Ashburn and came within 15 feet of his car. Then he realized he'd been surrounded.
Three video cameras poked at him from the left. Four reporters stood to his right. Two microphones pressed in front of him.
"Damn," Griffin said. "I don't want to be this popular."
There is, some Redskins players learned yesterday, a downside to advancing in the NFL playoffs. Players arrived at Redskins Park expecting a typically quiet, slow Monday. Instead, suddenly relevant in the NFL postseason, the Redskins ran into a media ambush.
About 20 reporters -- from Washington to Tacoma, Wash., to ESPN -- chased players in and out of the practice facility. Since only players in need of medical treatment showed up yesterday, everyone became a coveted target.
The mob peppered backup running back Ladell Betts with questions for 20 minutes. It interviewed defensive lineman Demetric Evans for, he said, "longer than I can ever remember." It chased backup cornerback Walt Harris to his car and kept Chris Samuels from entering the building.
Today and tomorrow promise to heighten the chaos. Enough media members will attend the Redskins' open locker room session today to increase dramatically the number of people ever to visit this far corner of the earth, a mass of playing fields and power lines 50 miles from the team's stadium in Landover. Then again, that influx might chase others away.
