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Redskins-Cowboys II Winners & Losers
By Jamie Mottram | December 19, 2010
Handing out labels following Skins games. Today, a 33-30 loss at Dallas.
WINNERS
Rex Grossman — Threw an unfortunate INT early and floated balls all day long, but any time the Sex Cannon goes off for 322 yards and four touchdowns, especially with this team, he’s a winner. Also, he played as well as Donovan McNabb has in any game all season, so there’s that.
Kyle Shanahan — Scored a season-high 30 points with his guy under center. I believe Al Saunders refers to this as “pulling a Todd Collins.”
Ryan Torain — Posted 101 total yards and a touchdown despite only 11 carries. Also bulldozed Dallas safety Alan Ball. I think we’re all falling for him, at least when healthy.
Chris Cooley — Was shutout the first three quarters but made at least four big catches in the fourth. I love when he makes a play on the road, because you can really hear how many Redskins fans are there.
Anthony Armstrong — Long-ball machine caught a 47-yarder and hit the 100-yard mark for the first time.
London Fletcher — His flying stop on 4th-and-goal was pretty awesome.
LOSERS
Danny Smith — Mike Shanahan has been coaching in the NFL for 25 years. He must have crossed paths with a decent special teams coach at some point. Hire that guy.
DeAngelo Hall — Burnt for two touchdowns and whiffed on a tackle to allow a first down.
Kareem Moore — He is not aware of how to tackle (e.g. he kept going high and getting carried by Jason Witten).
Brian Orakpo — Went out with a hamstring/groin injury early on.
Jim Haslett — His unit, depleted though it may be, allowed a Jon Kitna-led Dallas offense to make seven consecutive trips to the red zone. What I mean is, the defense is horrible.
MEDIUM
Santana Moss — Productive game (eight catches, 72 yards, two TD), but that downfield drop on the second-to-last drive was a killer.
Mike Shanahan — Lost to Dallas, and his team is 5-9, but at least they didn’t quit when they were down 20.
MISCELLANEOUS
Really could’ve done without Kenny, Moose & Goose calling these past three games, but at least they’re not getting the good ones … the refs were awful, especially with the roughing-the-passer stuff … the little Christmas lights that Fox used to symbolize timeouts were cute.
Topics: Dallas Sucks, Donovan McNabb, Redskins, TV Photography, Winners & Losers | 13 Comments »
December 19th, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Loser: the media delivery of this game to Richmond. I listened to most of the first half on the radio and while the commentary was the usual retarded nonsense the production was even worse than usual. Four ads per play-by-play sentence then missing half of each drive from pre-recorded ads. Then the ultimate indignity when I got home, Fox Richmond switched to the Colts/Jags for almost all the 2nd half. WTF
December 19th, 2010 at 6:56 PM
The last time a redskins QB threw for 4 TDs was ‘05
December 19th, 2010 at 7:15 PM
TJL:
I live in western henrico and saw none of the stuff you are talking about.
Also, If you saw colts and jags, I think you accidentally changed the channel. That game was AFC and on CBS. If fox was going to cut away to something it would have been Eagles/Giants.
December 19th, 2010 at 7:18 PM
winner: people who will be watching a stud lineman, christian ponder, and da’rel scott next year
December 19th, 2010 at 7:19 PM
also, what kind of horrific world do we live in, that we have to watch kareem moore & reed doughty instead of AREA 51??? please blog something about how bad kareem moore is. it is underreported.
December 19th, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Pretty sure I just blogged about it.
December 19th, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Appreciated, but dig deeper, please. Give the man a whole ‘pack shit get out’ feature. My friends and I agonize about his perfomance every week. He (and his training camp ass-kissers) should be persecuted over his tackling.
December 19th, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Kareem Moore isn’t worth a whole blog post.
December 19th, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Ben, entirely possible since alcohol def played a role in my coping
December 19th, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Johnny, if you take the time to write something about Moore, I’ll publish it. Just email to jamiemottram at gmail dot com.
December 20th, 2010 at 12:57 AM
I want this guy as our next punter:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Bowl-game-haiku-On-Will-Goggans-and-the-greates?urn=ncaaf-297811
that beard is awesome.
December 20th, 2010 at 7:13 PM
I want to take the time to write a pack shit get out spot about Moore. He deserves it. But then I asked myself, is he the only one? Who might even deserve it more? I could rattle off more than one name. (Gano, Rabach, Buchanon, Roydell Williams, …McNabb)
So I stopped thinking about it.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Get rid of everybody! I’ve said this for years but all the redskins need to keep is Silverback, Landry, and Orakp…that’s it!