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Jay Gruden, Redskins need to try winning pretty

ANALYSIS/OPINION

The Chicago White Sox won the 1983 American League West division, but opposing Texas Rangers manager Doug Rader wasn’t impressed.”They’re not playing that well,” Rader said .”They’re winning ugly.”

That became the identity — the rallying cry — of those 1983 White Sox.

Ladies and gentlemen — your 2016 Washington Redskins — winning ugly.

“Defensively, we’ve been ugly the last two weeks,” linebacker Will Compton said after Sunday’s 16-10 win over the Baltimore Ravens. “This week we did good. This is the NFL, man.