Redskins Glimpsed The Grossman They’ve Longed For
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By DERON SNYDER
Too much praise and too much blame is a fact of life for quarterbacks, exemplified by none more than the pair that dueled Sunday at FedEx Field.
Both have been probed and poked, dissected and inspected. Both have enjoying varying levels of success in their career, with Washington’s Rex Grossman having started for a Super Bowl team and Dallas’ Tony Romo being considered (by some) among the game’s best at his position.
No one would dare put Grossman in that conversation. Yet he was nearly Romo’s equal for 70 minutes in the Cowboys’ 27-24 overtime victory. He was nearly everything you’d want in a quarterback. He was nearly victorious.
That’s a whole lot of “nearly,” which is what you get with Grossman. But he avoided the catastrophic turnovers that plague him and drilled passes that his backup would never attempt, let alone complete.
We might always experience the cringe factor when Grossman drops back to pass, the involuntary reflex that causes us to hunch our shoulders and tense up as he scans the field. Sunday marked his 10th start with the Redskins, and he had thrown at least one interception in nine of them.
