Skins Lose Game. And Their Dignity.
Skins QB benched at 1:45 in the 4th. Ain't no thing. He's still D. McNabb.
On a Halloween Sunday afternoon Washington Redskins fans got lots of tricks, but not a winning treat in a 37-25 loss to the 1-7 Detroit Lions.
The good stuff first.
DeAngelo Hall continued his performance from last week, getting a Detroit interception early on.
Brandon Banks proved again why he is worthy of a spot on this team, running for 271 yards for 2 TDs (one called back). Banks surpassed Brian Mitchell for the number of yards run in a single game.
The Skins' ability to match the Lions in scoring through the third quarter was impressive. Matching Detroit with each TD, until Calvin Johnson's three TDs proved detrimental for the Redskins. There was no stopping CJ.
Still a lot of questions unanswered.
Most notably the coaches' decision (whether it be from Big Shanahan or Baby Shanahan) to bench veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb with (wait for it) less than two minutes in the game.
Two minutes! You mean McNabb who had played 58 minutes couldn't play the remaining 1:45 of an NFL game? Clearly he wasn't injured, was not being tended to by any conditioning coach, was not carted off the field. So why was McNabb taken out of the game with a chance to bring the team to within one TD to at least tie (or win) the game?
Shanahan puts in second string QB, Rex Grossman who had not played in an NFL game since who knows when, let alone Sunday's entire game, because...
According to Shanahan, "With Rex knowing how to run that 2-minute offense, I felt that with the time left and no time outs he gave us the best chance to win in that scenario."
Well, how did that work for ya?
I'll tell you how it worked. Detroit's sacking attack on a Redskin quarterback continued even after Grossman got in the game.
On his first play Grossman was sacked by defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch, fumbling the ball straight into the arms of defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (who was a scary monster the entire day). Suh carried the ball 17 yards for a touchdown that cinched a Detroit victory, and brought further doubt about this Redskins team, coach-player relationships, and the team's coaching abilities.
In two weeks we've heard the most ludracris remarks after the most ludacris performances.
Last week Jay Cutler made remarks about throwing 4 interceptions to DeAngelo Hall, and yesterday the team of Mike Shanahan made the most ludacris remarks about why they made the most detrimental executive order of the season.
We've also had the most ludacris decisions made in the last month reminiscent of the previous Jim Zorn era.
In the last month, Shananhan has decided to trade a hopeful Devon Thomas, benched Albert Haynesworth during the Indianapolis Colts game when he expressed the desire to play, quite possibly costing the team another game.
And the latest trick, benching the franchise QB at 1:45 in the 4th.
Those decisions leave me wondering if Shanahan gets some sort of preverse pleasure in throwing his most promising players under the bus.
Given those factors, I have to ask...
If you can bench the QB at the 1:45 mark in a game, can you bench the coach at the half-way marker in the season?
The team with the 1-5 record gets their second win of the season thanks to some awful play calling, some terrible blocking (McNabb was sacked 5 times), and a poor running game.
All the makings of a disastrous Halloween brew.
For the Redskins, it's back to the drawing board. They'll have two weeks to figure it all out going into their bye.
Hopefully, some regrouping, rethinking, and some restructuring during the bye will help save the rest of the season, before it, too, goes bye.
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On a Halloween Sunday afternoon Washington Redskins fans got lots of tricks, but not a winning treat in a 37-25 loss to the 1-7 Detroit Lions.
The good stuff first.
DeAngelo Hall continued his performance from last week, getting a Detroit interception early on.
Brandon Banks proved again why he is worthy of a spot on this team, running for 271 yards for 2 TDs (one called back). Banks surpassed Brian Mitchell for the number of yards run in a single game.
The Skins' ability to match the Lions in scoring through the third quarter was impressive. Matching Detroit with each TD, until Calvin Johnson's three TDs proved detrimental for the Redskins. There was no stopping CJ.
Still a lot of questions unanswered.
Most notably the coaches' decision (whether it be from Big Shanahan or Baby Shanahan) to bench veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb with (wait for it) less than two minutes in the game.
Two minutes! You mean McNabb who had played 58 minutes couldn't play the remaining 1:45 of an NFL game? Clearly he wasn't injured, was not being tended to by any conditioning coach, was not carted off the field. So why was McNabb taken out of the game with a chance to bring the team to within one TD to at least tie (or win) the game?
Shanahan puts in second string QB, Rex Grossman who had not played in an NFL game since who knows when, let alone Sunday's entire game, because...
According to Shanahan, "With Rex knowing how to run that 2-minute offense, I felt that with the time left and no time outs he gave us the best chance to win in that scenario."
Well, how did that work for ya?
I'll tell you how it worked. Detroit's sacking attack on a Redskin quarterback continued even after Grossman got in the game.
On his first play Grossman was sacked by defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch, fumbling the ball straight into the arms of defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (who was a scary monster the entire day). Suh carried the ball 17 yards for a touchdown that cinched a Detroit victory, and brought further doubt about this Redskins team, coach-player relationships, and the team's coaching abilities.
In two weeks we've heard the most ludracris remarks after the most ludacris performances.
Last week Jay Cutler made remarks about throwing 4 interceptions to DeAngelo Hall, and yesterday the team of Mike Shanahan made the most ludacris remarks about why they made the most detrimental executive order of the season.
We've also had the most ludacris decisions made in the last month reminiscent of the previous Jim Zorn era.
In the last month, Shananhan has decided to trade a hopeful Devon Thomas, benched Albert Haynesworth during the Indianapolis Colts game when he expressed the desire to play, quite possibly costing the team another game.
And the latest trick, benching the franchise QB at 1:45 in the 4th.
Those decisions leave me wondering if Shanahan gets some sort of preverse pleasure in throwing his most promising players under the bus.
Given those factors, I have to ask...
If you can bench the QB at the 1:45 mark in a game, can you bench the coach at the half-way marker in the season?
The team with the 1-5 record gets their second win of the season thanks to some awful play calling, some terrible blocking (McNabb was sacked 5 times), and a poor running game.
All the makings of a disastrous Halloween brew.
For the Redskins, it's back to the drawing board. They'll have two weeks to figure it all out going into their bye.
Hopefully, some regrouping, rethinking, and some restructuring during the bye will help save the rest of the season, before it, too, goes bye.
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