Brothers in Arms: Redskins 16, Packers 13 OT

"Game Over"--Dad

"Its still a long one."--Me

"We need a turnover."--Steve

Another classic Washington, D.C. weekend in October. Just beautiful. Rainbows are shooting out of my [ears]. Check out this rocket of a goal:

The moral of the story is when your first attempt is a lame dribbler mis-hit, and somehow, inexplicably, you get a second opportunity to grasp glory by the tail, you take that opportunity and crank that junk right past the goalie and silently scream an obscenity to yourself!

That's just what the Redskins did against the Green Bay Packers today. They pretty much stunk in the first half, particularly on offense. They couldn't really run, no one was getting open, Clay Matthews Jr. was making our o-line look like dog food, and we gained negative 20 yards after snatching a fumble and taking possession in the red zone early in the game.

But they stayed in it. A huge play was stopping Green Bay on 4th and goal in the first half when Lorenzo Alexander went out in coverage and prevented the tight end from scoring on the play action.

McNabb was overthrowing and underthrowing and running for his life, but somehow, on a 3rd and 12, scrambled around and found Moss on a long sideline route, and that led to a field goal.

This is kind of what McNabb did to us. Stink a whole bunch, but then make an extremely consequential play.

Burgers at halftime were excellent. Compliments to the chef(s).

So, the first half was a lame dribbler to the goalie, but because the Packers couldn't pull away, the Redskins got a second kick at the ball. Up 13-3, the Packers got stopped on third and 1, and then missed a really long field goal, pushed right. Still alive, but down by 10 at the start of the 4th quarter.

McNabb hit not really all that old man Joey Galloway for a first down, and then went down town like a satisfactory Red Line train, to Anthony Armstrong on a deep post jump ball. Outstanding ups and hand strength to haul that one in.

After another stop, McNabb drove 'em close, but not really close enough. Gano pushed a field goal wide right.

Thanks to an-all out jail house blitz and a sack by Fletcher on the next possession, the Skins got it back down by 3. A Cooley catch n'rampage (3 broken tackles) got us within FG range.

Gano barely snuck it in. I don't know how that ball stopped its initial desire to slice, but it was good.

GB had a chance to win. After, the completion to the 35, Dad said game over. But the Packers had no timeouts left and couldn't run an additional play. Its still pretty long, I said.

It looked perfect. High, and straight down the middle. But when it reached its peak, it began to move.

DOINK

In OT, LaRon Landry snatched an errant pass from concussed Aaron Rodgers, and returned it into field goal range.

And Gano Made it.

Man, am I tired.

After losing to the Rams, I thought we'd need to find a way to win two of the next three games against seemingly excellent opponents:--Philly, Green Bay, and the Colts if we wanted the relevant portion of the season to extend indefinitely.

Well, we got our two.

And by the way, the Colts aren't that great this year. No one is great this year. The Atlanta Falcons have the best record in the NFC right now, tied with maybe the worst 4-1 team ever, the Chicago Bears.

Its wide open.