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Upon Further Review: Game 1 - Dolphins 17, Redskins 10
The Washington Redskins opened the 2015 regular season at home last Sunday with a 17-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
What did we learn? Debatable, given the whole "sample size" thing. But two things I think we can safely surmise, at least for the moment, are:
1. That the home team did not make the transformative leap forward that fans, at least privately, once again had quietly been asking of the Gridiron Gods on yet another opening day. I admit it—when TE Jordan Reed caught that sweet fade pass from QB Kirk Cousins in the corner of the end zone, capping off a 17-play, 88-yard, 8:49 drive, and giving the Redskins a 10-0 lead late in the second quarter of a half they had dominated in the trenches, I allowed myself to look directly into the sun.
When I squinted just right, I could see a 27-10 throttling of those overrated, overhyped Dolphins, and a sweet Monday morning spent poring over local and national media stories by pundits falling all over themselves telling us how they saw it coming all along.
Ndamukong Who? The Redskins Are Back!
But ... by the time the Redskins allowed Miami to cruise easily back down the field to score an answering TD of their own in the closing minute of the half ... and after the Redskins then methodically shot themselves in the proverbial cleat enough times throughout the second half to let Miami to leave town a relieved winner, we had learned something else...
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Upon Further Review: Game 1 - Dolphins 17, Redskins 10
The Washington Redskins opened the 2015 regular season at home last Sunday with a 17-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
What did we learn? Debatable, given the whole "sample size" thing. But two things I think we can safely surmise, at least for the moment, are:
1. That the home team did not make the transformative leap forward that fans, at least privately, once again had quietly been asking of the Gridiron Gods on yet another opening day. I admit it—when TE Jordan Reed caught that sweet fade pass from QB Kirk Cousins in the corner of the end zone, capping off a 17-play, 88-yard, 8:49 drive, and giving the Redskins a 10-0 lead late in the second quarter of a half they had dominated in the trenches, I allowed myself to look directly into the sun.
When I squinted just right, I could see a 27-10 throttling of those overrated, overhyped Dolphins, and a sweet Monday morning spent poring over local and national media stories by pundits falling all over themselves telling us how they saw it coming all along.
Ndamukong Who? The Redskins Are Back!
But ... by the time the Redskins allowed Miami to cruise easily back down the field to score an answering TD of their own in the closing minute of the half ... and after the Redskins then methodically shot themselves in the proverbial cleat enough times throughout the second half to let Miami to leave town a relieved winner, we had learned something else...
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