Skins Head Into The Bye Week At 2-2 But With A Boatload Of Injuries

Washington Post - Josh Norman (ribs), Trent Williams (knee) and Rob Kelley (ankle) all left the game in the second quarter. Greg Manusky’s defense began to resemble a M.A.S.H. unit in the second half, with safeties Deshazor Everett and Montae Nicholson, cornerbacks Kendall Fuller and Quinton Dunbar and linebackers Zach Brown, Martrell Spaight and Mason Foster all getting banged up.

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As the old saying goes, sometimes you’re the lemon and sometimes you’re the papercut. Last night I think the Redskins were both. What do I mean? Well*Chaps voice*, you tell me. The Skins would not, could not avoiding getting hurt. Play after play, players were dropping like flies. It’s actually kind of crazy how de-sensitized we are to players going down with catastrophic injuries, but heck, that’s NFL football for ya, amiright?!

Josh Norman has a bad ribs injury, and possible internal damage, so he is out for a while. Not great! Trent Williams, who I don’t think has played a healthy snap in 4 seasons, missed some time last night with a knee injury. And Fat Rob can’t seem to stay on the field this year with a mish-mosh of injuries. And Jordan Reed, well, he’s still Jordan Reed.

And then the 2nd half came and I think we lost our entire secondary. They were plugging guys in at corner and safety who I thought were in the 2nd round of cuts. And I think they decapitated Mason Foster’s foot?

Despite all that, last night was winnable…and very likely would have been won had DOCTSON NOT DROPPED THAT BALL. Sorry. I will not get over it. Does nothing for 2 seasons and then has a chance to make a play and fucking drops it.

Just land on your back!!!

But I digress. 2-2 heading into the bye. Chance to win the Eagles game, blew it. Chance to win last night, blew it. So many small things (penalties on 3rd down, covering Kelce, Pryor not catching the ball, not giving the ball to Thompson, not throwing the ball to Reed or Crowder) could have gone differently last night to lock up the win. But that’s football, folks. Game of inches and all that jazz. So next week is a bye week, then back at it vs San Fran.