Sunday, October 4, 2009

Skins Are Winning 16-10 in the 4th Quarter; Josh Johnson Looks Good But Jason Campbell Has Turned it On

There are about 12 minutes left in the game, and we're up 16-10. The Redskins offense looked atrocious in the first half: three turnovers and no drives of more than 10 or 20 yards. BUT, Jason Campbell has totally turned it on in the second half -- a great TD strike to Chris Cooley, and then an absolutely gorgeous lead of Santana Moss that Moss caught in stride and ran to the endzone.

Meanwhile, the Bucs' Josh Johnson -- who replaced Byron Leftwich at QB last week -- looks quite poised and is very fast. The Bucs have driven down the field and are now on the Skins' 30 yard line -- the blocked extra point by Ronde Barber will loom large if this comes down to a contest of field goals.

Last week I complained about Brian Orakpo's celebration of a standard-issue sack while we were losing to the Lions. This week, the bad-form celebration award goes to DeAngelo Hall. After intercepting Johnson -- and while the Skins were losing 10-3 -- Hall dropped to the ground and gesticulated ostentatiously. Why can't any of the Skins coaches stop this ridiculousness? Norv, Spurrier, Gibbs II, and now Zorn all put up with it.
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In Fantasy, Kevin Smith has two TD's (although only 25 total yards) for my C'Ville team; currently I'm beating AdamsMorgan 67-56.