Irn-Bru wrote:The following is just my opinion; obviously it's not a majority view, but I'm surprised I don't see more people taking it:
You can't cover over a loss. Plenty of things to blame for this one. But it was a game of extremes; it was a shootout; it was a very close game against two clearly skilled teams. Despite whatever stats get thrown around here, it was really well played by both sides. (Shootouts always make both teams look weak in a way that they really aren't.) This was a great game of football.
Frankly, this loss doesn't bother me that much. (I mean relatively speaking, of course. When can anyone ever say that a loss wasn't a bad one?) I really think the Skins played hard and played a tough game. All things considered, they did a good job. We look like a different football franchise than the Redskins of 2-3 years ago.
We should have won it. We choked. The holes in this team left by Vinny and Danny are glaring. But I'm still amazed that Shanahan and Allen were able to account for as many weaknesses as they did. There were some very bright spots in this game.
And, in the final analysis, we looked pretty good, in my opinion. And I was proud of the effort our guys gave on the field.

there are a lot of reasons we lost the game but what the hell - I think some here forget where we've come from and as many areas of concern that we had these guys have improved
it's entirely possible that we'll be 3-1 in 2 weeks - how great is that
