The Patriots then drove down the field after the recovery to add another touchdown courtesy of running back LeGarrette Blount, the team’s leading rusher with 129 yards on 29 carries, to give New England a 14-0 lead before the Redskins even touched the ball. He got his first Super Bowl ring last season, coming up huge against the Seahawks, and he’ll play a critical role again as New England looks to repeat.
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“I just felt like we never had the ball in the first quarter”, Gruden said. “We’ve got a lot to work on before we play New Orleans”.
The defeat left the coaching staff with plenty of shortcomings to address – many of them familiar.
Redskins linebacker Keenan Robinson on Sunday stepped in front of a Tom Brady pass and returned it 44 yards, breaking a streak of 232 consecutive home pass attempts without a pick for the future Hall Of Famer, and earning this week’s Bridgestone Performace Player of the Week honors. Rather, it seemed more like a mutual acceptance of the inevitability when a team with a realistic chance to win every game hosts a team that’ll likely consider this season a success if it merely wins as many games as it loses.
By the ten minute mark the Patriots had more touchdowns (2) than the Redskins had plays from scrimmage (1). “Today is his 17th career start”. He was down for a few time, and helped off the field. “It was about as far from flawless as you could get”. Cousins was an effective game player, making the throws he needed to.
Fans hold cards that spell out, “Thank you troops”, to mark the Salute to Service military appreciation campaign during the first half of the Patriots game. “We had said all week, there is less room for error this week as an offense”. 500 but only a game out of first place in the division. It’s not time to panic.
Said Blount: “Whenever my number is called, I just have to go out there and perform; do what I have to do”.
-CB Chris Culliver (left knee) played for the first time since October 4.
“I don’t exactly know what to say about that”, Morris said.
Fitzpatrick completed 21 of 34 passes for 272 yards, while Chris Ivory ran for a brace of touchdowns, in an error-strewn game. And we have to let it go – we have to learn from it. Garcon then dropped another ball that would have converted a fourth-and-11 on the series after that.
“The problem is he wasn’t here in [offseason workouts], he missed a lot of camp and he missed the first [seven] games”, Gruden noted. “So to have the cohesiveness with the quarterback right out of the chute would probably be a little bit wishful thinking”. After each game, Gruden is asked the same question and is yet to find the answer.
“Yesterday wasn’t his day, wasn’t our day as an offense”, Gruden said. “They had the long drive and got the onside kick, then we had the turnover”. However, halfway through the season the Redskins find themselves in the hunt for the NFC East as they enter a Week 10 matchup against the New Orleans Saints.
Progress could come in the form of a lineup switch on defense.
He didn’t exempt the coaching staff either from the list of contributors who need to raise their games.
On the season, the Washington Redskins average 241.3 yards in passing and 99.0 yards in rushing.
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Also inactive Sunday are defensive lineman Jabaal Sheard, offensive linemen Tre’ Jackson and Marcus Cannon, receiver Keshawn Martin, running back James White and defensive lineman Trey Flowers. “It’s going to get fixed”.
