Well the first half was impressive as hell, but as the saying "that's why they play 60 not 30." So lets start with the good part, Donovan went for 426 yards and threw 1 TD, in his 3rd career 400 plus yard passing game, the Redskins D held Arian Foster to just 69 yards and no TD's and the D had 5 sacks. The Skins racked up 20 points in a half for the first time in a while. Now to the bad, 18 rushing yards in total, Schaub 497 yards passing, we knew that Andre Johnson was going to get his yards Kevin Walter had 144 reviving yards himself. Look I know its week 2, and we really aren't supposed to make to much noise in the playoffs this year, alot of the so called experts predicted us to lose this week, but unless if your playing Peyton Manning there's no excuse for blowing a 17 point lead in any game. Here's my grades and game ball.
Offense C+: First two drives of the game looked great, but the redzone blues continued as instead of the score being 14-0 the score was 6-0 as the Redskins kicked two field goals and as it played out that turned out to be part of the reason why we lost. Even a one TD and one FG would've been fine, but like I said all last week our like of TD's in the redzone is going to come back and bite us in the ass and it did today. Now to the rushing game, 18 total rushing yards in a Mike Shanahan coached offense? The age of Clinton Portis definitely showed today there were at least 2 times that if CP was 3 years younger he could've broke long runs, and age might shown to when CP tripped in the redzoned that eventually lead to a blocked field goal for the Texans. Time to go after a RB in the draft next year. And the offense in the final qtr awful as they could not put away the Texans. Now I'm pretty sure McNabb knows that when you have an opportunity to put that final nail into the coffin you do it. Maybe McNabb needs to gel with this offense more before we start seeing the Skins put teams away for good. Now to the good, maybe the Redskins should move to a spread offense because Donovan McNabb is finding his main reicvers in Chris Cooley and Santana Moss combined they had 153 yards and 1 TD. McNabb also found the caveman Mike Sellers 4 times and 2nd year wide out Anthony Armstrong 2 times for 36 yards. And o year McNabb went for 426 today. If the running problems still continue hopefully Mike and Kyle Shanahan will start throwing more.
Defense C: Like the Redskins as a whole, the D played well in the first half and were able to limit Andre Johnson's big plays in the first 30 min. Then the Texans woke up and decided to go after Reed Doughty, I wasn't surprised that the Texans did this infact I knew that the Texans were going to attack Reed Doughty I'm surprised that they didn't do it earlier. Reed Doughty is by far the weakest starter on the Redskins and it is time for Chris Horton to be inserted back in the lineup and we need to find a FS to compliment Landry in the draft this year. Doughty was the one the Andre Johnson out jumped to catch the game tying TD. The Skins gave up 497 in the pass game which shows that our secondary is almost as weak as the o-line, this is the second week in the row that the D has let an opponent back into the game, not a good sign, especially when we play the Colts in October. Then once again Carlos Rogers drops a game winning pick with about 2:20 left. How long is this going to last yes Rogers plays CB cause he can't catch but when its the second week in a row that Rogers drops a game winning and ending pick, there's a problem there. Hopefully a game against the Rams next week will help the D fix the problems. The good part about the D was they were able to limit Arain Foster to 69 yards and the Skins had 5 sacks on Schaub. At least we are now getting pressure on the QB and forcing them into bad throws at times, but we still need to get more picks and turnovers.
Game ball, Donovan McNabb: Really this was a no decision 28 of 38 for 426 yards and a TD, McNabb is turning Cooley and Moss back into starts and this week he spread the ball around as Joey Galloway, Mike Sellers, and Anthony Armstrong all had multiple receptions. Armstrong might of only had 2 receptions, but both of them were for big gains and possibly McNabb can turn Armstrong into a deep threat and take all of the attention away from Moss, whose had an outstanding year so far thanks to Donovan. 
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