| Craig Johnson. 1st November, 2005 - 7:13 pm
 After Sunday’s shellacking by the New York Giants, there is really nothing that I can get out of my mouth except, “Filth, Flarn, Flarn, and Filth.” It’s incredible that a week after blowing the 49ers to smithereens, we go to New York and can’t score one f*&%$@* Point.
Three fumbles-one interception, somewhere near 50 dropped balls (okay so I am exaggerating a little bit), 78 plays on defense and 7 first downs, and that all equals to… The first time a Washington Redskins team coached by Joe Gibbs has been shutout. Not exactly the words you want to read and definitely not the words you want to believe. By halftime of last weeks game I needed a barf bag and was looking all around for an eject button. Countless of Skins were getting banged around like rag dolls and every time I looked up Tiki Barber was running wild through our secondary. And speaking of secondary, what in the Filthy world was Walt Harris doing? Was he auditioning for a role in a reality show called “Jackass”? Well sorry Walt, that show is over and off the air now so why don’t you start playing a little football and tackle someone. Or at least cover someone, heck I don’t even care just stand next to them instead of letting them run by you.
And the offense, oh my gosh, what offense. Dropped balls left-and-right had me losing my religion and selling my soul to every Filth and Flarn word I could think of. Clinton Portis couldn’t find any room to work with and Chris Cooley got injured on what seemed like every play he was in on. At halftime the score was 19-0 and the Redskins had managed two first downs and never even got passed their own 40-yard line. Then to open the second half Ladell Betts fumbles the ensuing kickoff giving the Giants the ball inside the 25-yard line. Then to make matter worse when Patrick Ramsey finally got the Redskins in a position to score, on fourth-and-goal Robert Royal drops a touchdown. The points that would have kept us from hearing of the statistic about Joe Gibbs coached teams. Instead, we got to see Wellington Mara memories posted every thirty-seconds. I am all about respecting people but I saw enough of the Giants and their fans toasting to his memories. I was ready to toast Tiki to kiss my beef Wellington. Wow, sometimes you just really have to get things out and then you feel so much better. This is like my Washington Redskins anger management treatment here, since after last week’s game against San Francisco, I threw out my copy of “Noodle Soup for The Soul Redskins Edition.” My wife told me not too but I told her to go buy the “Redskins Fan for Dummies book” and she would soon see things were changing. Well the only thing changing is our next opponent. We get to bring in the Philadelphia Fleagles and play host to a team who is also coming off an embarrassing week. Our fans should be pumped and FedEx Field should be rocking. All I can say is let’s turn around our 1-7 record versus them since 2001 and start a new run. And if we don’t win on Sunday then I am…going to wait for the next week in hope of that much needed win. This is the year. I just know it!
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