Winning the Battle of Who Could Care Less: Redskins 17, Bears 14

9 Turnovers. Cutler threw 4 picks to DeAngelo Hall, one for a 92 yard game winning touchdown. McNabb threw 2 picks, one returned for a touchdown. Two Ryan Torain fumbles. Cutler got stripped at the goal line. A third McNabb interception for a TD got called back, thankfully, because McNabb was too slow with the play and got called for delay of game.

So these two teams were pretty awful, and neither deserved to win. But DeAngelo Hall put the Redskins on his back and made the big plays.

After McNabb threw his pick 6, he came back and led a really nice drive culminating in a post pattern touchdown to Moss. But McNabb either starts crappy-- throwing ducks and overthrows and then rallies--or he puts together a nice drive getting the lead, showing flashes of competence, and then calls it a day.

When the Skins were up 10-7 and Cutler was playing crappy, Kyle and McNabb teamed up for a 3 or 4 three-and-outs in a row, making it impossible to pull away.

Early in the third Q, with the Bears up 14-10. the football gods conspired to keep us alive.

It was first and goal. Cutler sneaked it, extended the ball so that it was arguably over the white chalk of the goal line.

All of a sudden, Haynesworth and Fletcher come flying through and the ball gets knocked out, Redskins recovered. (Haynesworth, by the way was a world wrecker. On one play, he literally drove the guy blocking him straight backwards and into Jay Cutler for a sack)

However, McNabb got picked off again, by DJ Moore again, and he walked right in the end zone for the score. Double however, the play clock ran out. Delay of game--no play! Sweet incompetence!

So we punted. And someone must have been listening to me because Hunter Smith did not punt to Devin Hester once. Not once. Smith repeatedly punted out of bounds, sometimes comically for a total of 20 yards. But it was the right strategy. Hester's freakish awesomeness often bails out Cutler.

And yet, there were drives where Cutler looked pretty sharp on the two and three step drops. But on a third down, Cutler went all "eff it, dude" put up a back foot lob throw to the sideline that Hall snatched with one hand and took it all the way down the sideline for the winning score.

Ryan Torain made some great runs late in the 4th, putting him over 100 yard again, but he fumbled twice--once in the red zone.

Its great to get the win. I was completely certain that we were going to lose the game right before the early third quarter deux ex machina/shenanigans that kept Chicago off the scoreboard.

Instead, we get to 4-3, which is pretty awesome for an NFC team this year. We have a QB that plays well for a bit before calling it a day; a defense that gives up a ton of yards but is learning to strip and intercept; and a team that is getting the breaks. Its nice for a change.