will we ever win?

Eagles win but did they deserve to?

When the idiot Juqua Thomas facemasked Campbell while sacking him in the 3rd quarter giving the Redskins a free new set of downs, I thought he'd be joining the sorry ranks of Trent Cole and Jerome McDougal in making a play that single handedly loses a game via utter stupidity. And that was before the next play was a 34 yard TD pass to Randle El. But the Redskins out stupided the Eagles down the stretch and the Eagles held on, despite scoring zero points in the second half. And man are the Redskins stupid. Why they just didn't run the ball up the middle on 9 out of 10 plays I don't know. As it was Betts still got 171 yards rushing and the offense racked up 415 in total. But why they couldn't score a touchdown despite having first and goal on the Eagles 3 is a mystery. Why wouldn't you just call 3 running plays up the middle? Sure the Eagles might stop 1 but all 3?

Another reason the Redskins lost this game is because they dropped 2 easy interceptions. Carlos Rogers on the first play of the game and Marcus Washington later. Meanwhile the Eagles made both of theirs. Gaither's gave the offense a short field for a TD and Michael Lewis returned his for a TD. So despite the defense only being a minor speedbump of resistance, they made a few plays that did enough to win the game to overcome all the others they made to lose it, just like last week.

OTHER NOTES: Redskins field looks like crap. Another opening drive, another drive for points. Another drive to close the half, another drive for points. The Eagles blitz is terrible but it got there twice today, the biggest being Dawkins sack. Mahe submitted his entry for stupidest play of the year but there's been so many far worse it really can't compete. There will be a poll at the end of the season. In good special team play, Johnson the punter had a really good day. Westbrook had another really good game. Garcia a decent game. Dawkins had 2 good plays when the rest of the defense was doing nothing. I despise those Lexus ads.