Secondary Sucks Life Out Of Redskins
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By DERON SNYDER
The early-season excitement, the euphoria surrounding Robert Griffin III is gone. The Washington Redskins‘ fast start and unexpected promise has evaporated. Hope that a change was at hand in Mike Shanahan’s third season at the helm has disappeared.
Slowly but slowly, it has dissipated, like air escaping from a tire’s slow leak.
Or like a wideout working free against Washington’s leaky secondary.
There actually was good news Sunday in the Redskins‘ latest defeat, 21-13 against the visiting Carolina Panthers. Quarterback Cam Newton passed for just 201 yards, the lowest total that Washington has relinquished all season. It also marked the second consecutive week — and just the second week, period — in which the opponents gained fewer than 290 yards through the air.
However, the Redskins continued their trend of being gouged for long pass plays, this time early in the fourth quarter (as opposed to late in the fourth quarter, like the 77-yarder a couple of weeks ago against the New York Giants).
