And Jones thanked Williams for offering encouragement after the running back fumbled in the third quarter, setting up Nick Foles’ 40-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Britt that got the Rams within 17-10.
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Week 2 in the National Football League regular season will be another weekend packed full of big games. But given all that had gone wrong for the Washington Redskins during the preseason, the near-constant second-guessing of coach Jay Gruden and the team’s other shot-callers, the late-game collapse in the season opener, and the tough task that awaits later this week, Sunday’s game was as close to that as the Redskins could get. Today they allowed the Rams just 67 yards on the ground. Expect Washington to continue to lean on running back Alfred Morris, who racked up 121 yards on 25 carries last week but has scored only one touchdown in his last six contests. The Redskins also avoided further alienating a long-suffering fan base that has begun to grow tired of the continual losing, as the abundant empty seats and plentiful visiting jerseys indicate. Then the penalties reared their ugly head again as a Shaun Lauvao negated a 20+ yard Cousins run and stalled the Redskins drive.
Fisher may not need to mess around with quasi-statements via his captains.
“It’s a different test this week than it was last week and now we now we’ve got another different test”, said Fisher. St. Louis has yet to convert a third down situation and punted on all of their possessions. The Redskins were only projected to win four games and they know that losing the first two games at home is only indicative of expert prediction. The Redskins attempted to run at Quinn, but he shed his blocker and stacked up Morris for a loss.
The Redskins finished with a 182-67 edge in rushing yards. We’ve got the fantasy projections courtesy of numberFire.
The Rams only had two sacks, after getting six against Seattle.
The Redskins have outgained the offense 239 yards to 72 and haven’t turned the ball over yet after committing two turnovers in week one.
Despite averaging more than five yards per carry, the Rams ran the ball just 13 times, while throwing 32 times for just 150 yards and a touchdown.
Tre Mason, the Rams’ 2014 rushing leader, sat out last week because of a hamstring injury, but appears ready to roll after a full week of practice.
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Kirk Cousins – 23 of 27 for 203 yards, one TD and zero interceptions – led a 12-play, 77-yard drive that ate up more than 6 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter and was capped by Jones’ second score, basically sealing the victory.
