I think "fiasco" sums it up adequately.
Don't get me wrong - the Skins did indeed deserve to win. But they deserved to win because they executed where we didn't.
I want to know HOW and WHY Leslie Frazier allows our team to dink, dunk, fail during the second and third quarters (hell, we failed in the first quarter too, by scoring FGs instead of TDs), and then suddenly we begin to execute in the fourth - where unfortunately, it's too little, too late. If they want to hire me to jump up and down, scream, and get in peoples' faces to fire the team up during games, Mr. Frazier, Mr. Wilf, I am available!
I think what irritated me most was seeing Jared Allen laughing on the sideline during the fourth quarter during a nailbiter drive by our offense. In my gimpy opinion, when you let a rookie quarterback sneak on past you for a 76 yard rushing touchdown...don't laugh.
What irritated me second-most was Ponder. The man tried hard, and I give him a great deal of credit for not throwing in the towel and giving up. But he has got to work on those desperation plays - three picks thrown when he was flustered and didn't know where to go! I'll tell you where to go - the sideline, ten yards away! NOT over the middle!
N.B. Madieu Williams - really? Can't tie his own shoelaces when he's with us, and he plays against us and suddenly he's an interception machine?!
On the offense, Peterson tried hard, Percy tried hard, and quite a few others - Jenkins, Aromashodu, Kalil, and Fusco did what we asked of them. Rudolph definitely had a few things to work on, but I have faith that he'll bust his ass to get better, because that's the kind of player he is.
On the defense, can I take a moment to applaud Everson Griffin? His mother dies suddenly and unexpectedly while she's visiting him - he finds out while he's at a practice, and four days later he not only comes to the game, but he dresses out and performs?? The man is incredible, and I take my hat off for him, I can't imagine I'd be able to do the same in his place.
Other than that, the defense made some good stands, but some terribly crucial errors as well. I'm wondering just what kind of nagging injury Chris Cook has got, because his coverages have been soft and his ballhawking negligible this season, and it's starting to concern me. Jared Allen has had a very slow season - at least he got one sack yesterday - and the lack of pressure on RGIII was unacceptable. Our D is better than this!
Our special teams were decent, but the only real notes I have are that I'm glad Percy isn't on as many kickoff returns (he was pretty gimpy yesterday), and a standing ovation for Sherels for hanging onto that ball when he got a boneshattering hit from a Skin that made his helmet fly off. I cannot say enough about how important it was he hung onto the ball right there!
Frankly, I want to see if our team can come back from this loss the way we did from a devastating Indianapolis loss to beat a rather good San Francisco (I say good, not great, because of the way they got trounced by the Giants yesterday...now THAT must've been humiliating!), and then rival Detroit and upstart Tennessee. Arizona aren't exactly pushovers, even with talk of Kolb being out with an injury, and we need to want this to win.
Look on the bright side - we're 4-2 and the Packers are 3-3! 4-2 isn't bad, especially when you consider our record from last season.
SKOL!
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