Washington Redskins Week 5 - Game Ball

I knew he would be a positive contributor and good holder, I didn’t expect his skills to be showcased his first game with correcting that one field goal hold in the nick of time.

He only had 3 catches but if he doesnt pull down that TD catch i dont think we win that game. And he kept that drive going on that tipped pass he pulled down for a first down. And lastly the pass interference penalty he drew on Woodson was huge…

2 votes?

It was a throw that had, let’s say, had as good a chance of being caught by a Redskin as being caught by a Packer, and a better chance of dropping.
-If we catch it and make to the endzone, 3 yds away, game over we win
-if they catch it, as they did, the likelihood of the guy catching it running the entire field which is covered with Redskins, as he did not, is very, very low. He didn’t “almost” score a touchdown. He caught a ball on the 3 and ran 64 yards to the 33. It may have looked like a lot of running, but he landed barely within FG range with no time left.

In other words, what was more likely in all of the caught ball scenarios—they score a touchdown or we do? I’d put their odds pretty damn low—they have to cover the entire field on one run. On a play like this, you anticipate an INT and some guys hang back. I’d put our odds at excellent—we had to cover 3 yards.

In the end, it sucks we lost Trent, but you can’t predict injuries, and if you tell me there is a decent shot at winning the game on one play and an extremely outside shot of losing it on the same play…well, that sounds like slightly better odds than there are on any given snap.

This isn’t like the DHall INT vs. Dallas. Romo threw the ball, what, 10 yards? McNabb launched this one deep enough that only a complete meltdown on our end would have surrendered a GB TD. And if you allow a guy to take a pick and return it for 97 yds, you deserve to lose.

We didn’t, and we won—not on that play, but we could’ve.

Feel free to hate on this opinion, but I am in favor of playing football to win, and that takes ballsy, but well-informed, calls.

Honarable mention for hardest hit goes to Mike Sellers on special teams. I jumped out of my seat on that one!

Props to Armstrong for showing why he is still with the team. His TD catch was a huge momentum change.

Props to Gano for hanging in there and not only tying the game up, but winning it for us in OT. He really bailed out a struggling offense that still sputters in the red zone.

I want to add Banks to the list. He’s giving the offense an awesome present every time he touches the ball: an opportunity for fantastic field position.

I think they didn’t call half of the holding penalties that he caused. I thought the refs did a poor job of calling those in this game. It all depends on the umpire, I guess.

seemed like he was everywhere and making big plays.

McNabb looked awful 1/2 the game and was often wildly inaccurate. I’m not a Jets fan so I only watched the 1st half of last nights game but Sanchez was consistently more accurate than what I’ve seen from McNabb. And that’s not just the Redskins McNabb, it’s his entire career. I used to love how the threw 1/2 the balls way over the receivers head, now I don’t like it at all!