fansince62
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It's tough on any defense when the other team has the ball for 40 minutes and your offense is 3-11 for 31 yards through the air through 3 quarters.
At one point the Redskins had 2 first downs to the Eagles' 21.
And one of those first downs was via penalty.
Agree on the whole. That said, early on the same ole problems manifested themselves - especially the inability of our LBs to pass cover and the DC's inability to anticipate the next playcall with the correct defense.
The injury excuse may hold on offense - but not defense. In my book, the defense has been ok. Better than the last few absymal years, but certainly not dominant. So, yea, it would make a big difference to have an offense that can achieve somehthing grander than negative yardage, but I never found this defense to be top tier. It has two quality linemen from AL and, I will concede, Ioannidus was a significant loss. But the rest of the defense? meh.