This Year's Redskins Answer the Question Whaaaat? Lions 37, Redskins 25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRPpvefxLCA

What a wild weekend of soccer, birthday dinners, naps, and the schitzo Washington Redskins went up to Detroit trying find some kind of identity and a win before going into the bye week. Instead, McNabb threw a terrible interception with a five point lead less than five minutes left. The flood gates opened, the Skins lost, and McNabb got benched because Mike Shanahan thought Rex Grossman would give us a better chance to win. Yeah. Crazy.

Thanks to long punt and kickoff returns from Brandon Banks, the Skins had a chance to win, up 25-20 with 5 minutes left in the 4th. As the Lions punted, I said, "It would really be great for us to get an offensive touchdown, for our confidence (because of course this game was totally ours and nothing bad was going to happen.)

But then McNabb, on 2nd and 10, threw into triple coverage for an interception, and minutes later, Calvin Johnson scored his third touchdown of the game on 4th and 1.

Then, down 31-25, the Skins had one last chance. But with no timeouts, Shanahan thought now's the perfect time to bring out Rex Grossman. First Shanahan justified it by saying Grossman knows the 2 minute drill terminology. Then he said its because McNabb was kind of beat up. Then he said its because Rex is in better shape.

The reaction has been unanimous--what a total cluster eff, because not only did we blow a chance to be 5-3 at the bye, we added a completely unnecessary distraction about McNabb's future and the coaching staff's faith in him.

The only possible silver lining is that this lights a fire under McNabb's ass who, let's face it, has been generally crappy this year. His saving grace has been being able to hit a few long ones each game.

Now, bye week. Kind of sick of this up and down team at the moment.