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Redskins-Texans Winners & Losers
By Jamie Mottram | September 19, 2010
Handing out labels following Skins games. Tonight: a 30-27 loss to Houston, which I can’t hardly bring myself to think about right now.
WINNERS
Donovan McNabb — Lost his mojo in the fourth quarter and overtime but was unbelievable the first three quarters. Really accurate downfield, even under pressure and/or on the move. The would-be game-winning heave to Joey Galloway was a killer overthrow. Still, I’m not gonna argue with 426 yards and a 119 QB rating.
Carlos Rogers — First INT since ‘08. Of course he bobbled it.
LaRon Landry — He was all over the field yet again, picking up a sack, helping to force Rogers’ INT, etc. As Dan Fouts said, “It’s looking like there’s more than one No. 30 out there.”
Chris Cooley — More beautiful magic with McNabb to the tune of 64 yards and a TD.
Santana Moss — Ten catches for 89 yards.
Fred Davis and Joey Galloway — Each had a 62-yard reception.
Brian Orakpo — Hey, first sack of the season.
Josh Bidwell – Redeemed himself with a fine day of punting, including a 52-yarder with no return near the end of regulation.
Sunday Ticket — For not making me watch the end of Ravens-Bengals.
Kyle Shanahan — It’s so weird scoring points.
MEDIUM
Trent Williams — Didn’t hear his name until Mario Williams beat him for a sack late. Unfortunately, Silverback also sprained his knee on the play.
Graham Gano — Nailed the 42-yarder early and had two great/lucky kickoffs that penned Houston deep, but missed the 52-yarder that counted.
Clinton Portis — Had nowhere to run, but scored twice and had an awesome downfield block on Davis’ long catch.
Reed Doughty — Made a lot of tackles, but that Andre Johnson jump-ball TD on 4th-and-10 was just brutal, even if Johnson is phenomenal.
LOSERS
The defense — Matt Schaub tore that ass up to the tune of 497 yards.
Larry Johnson — Ran himself into a 10-yard loss on one play. Looked really, really slow out there.
Stephon Heyer — Looked Alex Barron-esque in relief of Silverback.
Danny Smith – For the second straight week, his unit botched a key, short-distance FG. In closing, fire Danny Smith.
Topics: Redskins, Winners & Losers | 18 Comments »
September 19th, 2010 at 8:20 PM
I guess I can get on board with the losers; however, I didn’t see a whole lot of shit play today. I think Houston is an amazing team and to go into OT and lose by 3 points to that great a team doesn’t hurt as bad as say losing to the Bears (suck it Dallas!).
Overall there wasn’t a whole lot that stood out to me as shit.
September 19th, 2010 at 8:28 PM
I’m mad we lost but not depressed like in the past. We looked like a real professional football team.
plus this is kind of genius:
“ICED!!!!”
http://dc.sbnation.com/2010/9/19/1698649/gary-kubiak-icing-the-kicker-redskins-texans
September 19th, 2010 at 8:33 PM
With all due respect, please move Rogers to the losers column. He was out of place all day and I’d say singlehandedly lost us the game. When my mom is texting me to cut him, its time to cut him.
September 19th, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Good call, JDP. I did this hastily and from notes that were mostly jotted down as the Redskins built a 27-10 lead. The rest of it I didn’t really want to think about.
September 19th, 2010 at 8:44 PM
I’m still in shock that Rogers caught a ball, let alone an interception.
September 19th, 2010 at 9:15 PM
If Gano nails the OT kick I woudl’ve had Kubiak in the winners column. I was in shock when the Texans’ punting unit trotted out. What’d they net after the touchback, 16 yards?
September 19th, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Manos de piedra gets an INT!
September 19th, 2010 at 9:25 PM
I really want to be positive here. It’s painfully hard to ignore how they lost because they always lose in this fashion.
The one obvious constant is the lack of oline performance. Mcnabb had to scramble and Portis isn’t Terry Tate office linebacker, so he’s not going to flourish behind that bunch.
A big fuck you is in order for Vinny Cerrato. You can’t build a oline over night and as we all know he traded draft picks away at the expense of our pride as Skins fans.
Fuck. You. Vinny.
September 19th, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Loser: Mike and Kyle Shannahan. No running the ball what-so-ever and when they needed to, a reverse with Moss?? WTF! yeah stats look good, but when you have a lead and need to take the time off the clock, run that shit. Chris Horton, loser. Jamaal Brown, 2 false starts, loser. Devin Thomas, had some more nice returns on kicks, medium.
September 20th, 2010 at 12:19 AM
Completely agree with the above about giving up on the run. Understand it wasn’t effective early, but later in the game Clinton got a couple decent ones in there. Can’t rely on the big strike all game.
The players got us up 17, some of that play calling gave it away. Think Kyle Shanahan is “medium” at best.
September 20th, 2010 at 1:33 AM
People are being hard on Rogers for really no reason. Rogers is an excellent corner and on the 2 plays that he got beat big it really looked like Landry was supposed to have inside and/or over the top help based on the way the play developed. I think Landry is relishing his LOS Rover role a little too much, he is playing incredibly though.
September 20th, 2010 at 8:22 AM
I hope Trent Williams is okay. I can not handle another year of watching Stephon Heyer attempt to play football.
Larry Johnson needs to pack shit and get the fuck out. Despicable human being and a shitty football player.
After week one, I could care less if the Skins resigned McNabb. After week 2, the Skins need to sign McNabb! This is how McNabb works, consistently inconsistent.
September 20th, 2010 at 8:36 AM
Losers: All of us for having to put up with the worst TV crew ever. Minimal replays, returning from commercial breaks to let us know there was a penalty, asinine commentary, and a guy who pronounces Ian as eye-an… and his last name is Eagle. All I could think of all game was horrible uber-patriotic cock movies. And while refreshing my memory on the Iron Eagle franchise, I noticed that a certain band called Katrina and the Waves was on the soundtrack… soooo… winner?
September 20th, 2010 at 9:14 AM
You know… I was really expecting to see you pimping Mike Sellers as a Winner or Medium after this game. After a FULL season of mediocre play he finally had a decent first quarter for us. Still needs to work on the blocking game though!
September 20th, 2010 at 11:03 AM
I actually like Ian Eagle.
Mike Sellers is a dropped pass or fumble waiting to happen.
September 20th, 2010 at 1:43 PM
“I can’t hardly bring myself…”
Jamie, I think the south is getting to you.
September 20th, 2010 at 3:41 PM
“I actually like Ian Eagle.”
Wow, just, wow. I usually find it hard to fault your thinking even when you’ve had a different point of view. It is your blog after all, and I’m just an anonymous visitor. But that line is hard for me to stomach.
This is the first time I’ve noticed this guy… and to be fair, I really wasn’t interested in finding out who was Eagle and who was Fouts. But that was because it was so horrible. And it really was the worst football-viewing experience I ever had. He made me not care about the game. He is television AIDS. And unless you know the guy personally Jamie, and he’s “kinda a cool dude, or something,” you couldn’t be more wrong. You don’t actually like Ian Eagle, you just got brain-raped for 4 hours into Stockholm Syndrome.
September 20th, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Really, someone doesn’t want to be too hard on C-Rog. Um, does anyone remember the texans going after hall all day? did 500 passing yards magically appear out of thin air? NO!!! Whether it was Johnson or that tall white dude, Rogers didn’t stand a chance. In the second half, I focused mostly on Rogers, and he was beat on almost every play, whether or not the ball was thrown his way. He spent plenty of time talking to the coaches, and was even benched for a couple of plays in favor of Buchanon, but nothing worked. Please, just because he was a former high first round pick, has all these “skills” and “potential” it’s time to stop the bleeding. Say what you want about botched special team plays, Johnson’s sick catch, slight McNabb overthrows, Rogers is the one who put us in place to lose this one, the rest is just the breaks.