The Redskins Humiliation!

Photo Courtesy of the Washington Post

I don't cover sports or pretend to know more than Bert Haber, Levan Reid or Sara Walsh who I look to for insight when it comes to the home teams;

but I am a fan and have followed the Skins for more than 30 years.

It seems to me that yesterday's loss to the New England Patriots tells us as much about the Washington Redskins as it does about the Patriots who are the best team in the league.

Let's face it, the home team is not a top tier NFL team. That's a place for the Pats and Colts...The next level might see the Cowboys, Steelers and maybe San Diego and the Giants...

As for the Patriots running up the score. I don't have a problem with how they played the game. In professional boxing you don't stop punching when you have an opponent almost out for the count.

I rather like the idea of going for a first down when you are not backed up to your own goal line, rather than settling for the three point field goal. Both Coaches, Joe Gibbs and Greg Williams said afterwards they didn't have a problem with New England trying to score seven instead of three.

I appreciate how London Fletcher summed up yesterday's loss and what it revealed about the Washington Redskins. He told the Washington Post.

"We got utterly embarrassed in every facet of the football game," said linebacker London Fletcher, a vocal leader in just his first season with the team. "This loss falls on everybody in this organization. I feel like we've got to let it simmer and stew, because I don't ever want to have this feeling again. I don't think you just move on. There's a lot of stuff that happened on this football field today that has to be corrected if we're going to get to our ultimate goal this year."