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Redskins-Eagles Winners & Losers
By Jamie Mottram | December 23, 2012
Handing out labels following Skins games. Today, a 27-20 win at Philly.
Winners
Robert Griffin III — The mobility wasn’t there, and I could’ve sworn he had just an okay game throwing the ball, but he ended up with a 102.2 rating, so what do I know.
Ryan Kerrigan — His strip-sack early on shifted momentum big time. Picked up another sack later. Now has a career-high 8.5.
Kai Forbath — Another game, another two made FG. Now has the NFL record for made FG attempts without a miss to start a career (17-17).
London Fletcher — Picked up his career-high fifth INT. (Shout out to Barry Cofield for tipping the pass.) Also made 12 tackles. Oh, and he puked.
Stephen Bowen – Pressured Nick Foles into the game-ending intentional grounding that made me jump up and down like an idiot.
Pierre Garcon — Seven catches on nine targets for 89 yards.
Alfred Morris – Only 18 yards in the first half. Finished with 91 and his 10th TD of the season, tying Charley Taylor’s 48-year-old franchise record for touchdowns by a rookie.
Santana Moss — That TD catch-and-drag was a thing of beauty. It was also his eighth TD of the season, his most since 2005.
Chris Cooley — Broke his reception-less streak by catching a pass for a first on 3rd-and-2 in the fourth.
Perry Riley and Lorenzo Alexander — Picked up a couple of sacks and combined for 13 tackles.
Richard Crawford — Recovered the fumble on Kerrigan’s strip-sack. Also returned a punt 20 yards. Is not Brandon Banks.
Maurice Hurt — Subbed for Tyler Polumbus at RT and the line didn’t suffer for it (only allowed one sack and ran the ball well).
Fox — I wasn’t really listening to Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick, but I hear they played Chuck Brown’s “Bustin’ Loose” into a break.
Losers
Whoever No. 30 is — Burnt for another TD and missed a tackle too.
Chris Wilson — Held on the Skins’ first kick return, costing them 46 yards. Of course, maybe if he didn’t hold the return wouldn’t have gone that far. We’ll never know.
Leonard Hankerson — Dropped as many passes as he caught.
Mike Shanahan — Lost a bad challenge on that RGIII backwards pass to Moss. Got stuffed on fourth down early. Punted on fourth-and-a-foot late.
Medium
Josh Morgan — Had a nice run on a reverse early on, and the catch-and-run TD was nice too. Thought he should’ve caught the ball that ended up being RGIII’s lone INT.
Topics: Philly Sucks, Redskins, Winners & Losers | 21 Comments »
December 23rd, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Good stuff but too harsh on Morgan who was great today and is really developing. Also, sweep the damn leg! Kobra Kai!
December 23rd, 2012 at 4:58 PM
For the inevitable “will we win the wildcard if we lose vs Dallas” debates please see:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine
December 23rd, 2012 at 5:00 PM
No. 30 aka DJ Johnson needs to disappear along with Madieu Williams. I am sure I was raging the entire game on him in the live thread.
December 23rd, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Winner: the people of the District of Columbia. Hail to the Redskins and Merry Christmas.
December 23rd, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Okay I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know who 30 was. Also, Kai is the fkn man!
December 23rd, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Kai is the boss. Who could have expected to gain a franchise qb, rb, and K in the same season?
December 23rd, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Winner: road warrior fans, going into a normally hostile environment. Saluting the Cooley catch was clearly heard on the fox broadcast.
December 23rd, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Loser: Shitty Secondary. These guys blew it multiple times today.
December 23rd, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Longest regular season winning streak since ‘96.
December 23rd, 2012 at 8:27 PM
We want Dallas
December 23rd, 2012 at 8:28 PM
I swear #30 is Laron Landry recreated sometimes really playing that # like the former player damn he sucks
December 23rd, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Not going for it should have cost us that game. Everyone knew if we punted theyd be on the 45 3 plays later. Shanahan is gutless. We got lucky today.
Biggest regular season game in my lifetime next week. No big deal
December 24th, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Just puked thinking about the Dallas game next week.
December 24th, 2012 at 1:00 AM
Dear god this entire week is going to be so stressful
December 24th, 2012 at 1:04 AM
QBR isn’t a great stat. But big big big win by the Skins. We swept the Eagles, beat the Giants on MNF, beat the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, beat the Ravens in the Beltway Battle. Win or lose next week this is a good season for the Redskins despite being, I don’t know, not an actually talented team on D. RG3 is the real deal. #duh
December 24th, 2012 at 6:57 AM
Note: I wasn’t referring to RGIII’s ESPN QBR (I don’t even know what that would be); that’s just his regular old QB rating.
December 24th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
I don’t want Seattle at all in the playoffs.
December 24th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Looking at that simulator, Seattle is locked into a 3 or 5 seed meaning they play in Washington in the first round or the Skins travel to Seattle in the second round. I think I’ll take scenario #1. Those guys have beaten us too many times in Seattle.
December 24th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Rob Jackson continues to get no love despite being arguably the best defender recently.
Also, seeing RG3 and KC1 interact with Lil’ Shanny on the sidelines makes me extremely curious about what exactly they’re saying. So, so curious…
I’m also convinced that Haslett is actually a defensive genius. This team is extremely limited with talent on Def and his scheming allows the team to remain competitive.
December 24th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
We had Jackson down as a winner each of the past two weeks, FWIW.
December 24th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Well, I have a short memory…