Joe Gibbs spent the past week making sure we knew he wasn’t looking past the San Francisco 49ers. He didn’t want to provide them with locker-room material. He didn’t want his team to lose focus and start drifting ahead to next week’s battle in the Meadowlands. Gibbs wanted one thing made clear—the San Francisco 49ers were the greatest threat to life in the DC Metro region since the Hot Zone. “Do you think you…

Saturday football? If it weren’t for the fact that some playoff teams are in the day-early mix, like Pittsburgh, Carolina and Atlanta, I’d have to wonder if the NFL had decided to banish the Redskins and their even lowlier counterparts from San Francisco from Sunday. But we assure you, this was the scheduled time and place from the beginning. This also marks another meeting between teams whose cities boast an –ist blog. In this case,…