Cold, and Wet

When this stuff happens, just go home

Time to call in the Wolf. The Redskins hit bottom yesterday, losing a wet and miserasble affair to the Eagles, 27-3. There is barely anything I can write about here. I was at the game yesterday, and was accosted and deprived of property, but I'm going to write my game journal tonight, complete with photos, so that's a separate post.

The Redskins sucked, the Eagles looked good. So much for skewed playcalling. Andy Reid handed the playcalling over to Marty Mornhinweg, and boom, I count 26 passes and 30 runs. Redskins racked up 70 penalty yards, including a facemask and a late hit by Sean Taylor. The penalty situation is so bad the even Dan Steinberg couldn't make it amusing. The Redskins playcalling was dreadful, sticking with center runs and screen passes even late in the game when time was of the essence. Gibbs:

I think we need to take a long hard look at everything

This is an understatement. On the way to the game yesterday, Wilbert Montgomery made a point Tom Boswell makes in the WaPo today: the Redskins personnel strategy and game strategy don't match up. Why have these burners that can get open downfield when the QB only wants to throw 10 yards? And where is the defense? The Redskins have gone 21 straight quarters without a takeaway, which despite Boswell's other column, looks less like probability and more like inevitability.

Mark Brunell's passes drifted high and outside. Adam Archuleta did not play a down on defense. Clinton broke his right hand. He could miss a month, which means he could be coming back with a game or two left on the schedule. Don't bother. Bob Novak missed a field goal. Sheldon Brown picked off a 10 yard out to Santana and ran it back for 6. A healthy Santana would have chased him down and forced him out of bounds, but after this play he just limped right off to the sideline. Healthy enough to start, not healthy enough to give a fuck. Then when shit like a fumble falling into Correll Buckhalter's hands in midstride with an open field, you know the football gods are piling on.

This team not only has no identity, it barely has corporeal form. If you squint hold this team up to light, you can actually see through it. Remember being 5-6 last season before the improbably 5-0 run to the playoffs? The Redskins now need a two-game win streak to be that bad. Get ready for the torrent of suck.

Duckett watch: HE GOT IN THE GAME! TJ Carried the ball twice for 16 yards and had one catch for -3 yards (yes, that's right, end of a bad loss and the passing game is still going backwards). Season now projecting to 7 carries for 71 yards.

B-Lloyd Blues: the leading receiver by yardage, with two catches for 47 yards. Looks good right? One catch was for 43 yards, one for 4. Also, Brunell threw at him a total of 8 times. That's right, 8 chances, 2 catches.

Campbell's Stew: I wonder if this means anything. I can't find a consolidated list of NFL inactives, but this piece on redskins.com has a 'complete' list of inactive players for yesterday's game, and it does not include Jason, although I think I would have read that Jason was not inactive, because it would have been the first time in his career that he was on the active roster. The same piece also says Joe considered going with Collins at the end of the game, so I think we are going to see some Jason soon.

Bleeding Green Nation recaps here and here. Hogs Haven game recap here. Money quote from Jason at BGN:

...the way to beat the Eagles is to commit to the run early and stick with it. If the game is close or you have lead in the second half it will pay off and you'll be able to impose your will. Clearly that was Washington's plan. However, that plan needs to be adjusted when your defense isn't holding up it's end of the bargain. The Eagles were up 17-3, 20-3 and the Redskins still wouldn't try to throw the ball. You just aren't going to erase a 17 point 3rd quarter deficit running the ball 3 yards at a time with your backup RBs when you just spent millions upon millions of dollars on WRs this past offseason.

It's Monday and I'm poor and hungover.



Correll Buckhalter's incredible and improbable touchdown run: Washington Post