By Mark Bacon
An infamous Instagram post last season from Skins wide receiver DeSean Jackson, after a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, stated “You can’t do epic [bleep] with basic people.”
Jackson had his chance to do epic (bleep) last night; he was below basic.
- Epic stupidity. Epic redemption. And finally, epic disappointment — all within the final two minutes of a bad game turned good turned devastating.
- There was hope in Skins Nation. Yet, history reminds us you can’t assume a turnaround. Ever. Not with this team. You can’t think ahead with Washington. You have to stay in the moment. You can’t even assume Jackson will provide heroics, let alone make a sound decision on a late-game punt return
- Apparently the teams really did set football back a few years. The tablets and printers on the Dallas sideline weren’t working in the first half. Cowboys Coach Jason Garrett was visibly upset. One assumes offensive and defensive coordinators were sketching plays on papyrus or in the dirt.
- The constant flags made the game painful to watch. The Cowboys committed eight penalties for 70 yards. The Redskins committed nine penalties for 74 yards.
- “Monday Night Football’s” spotlight revealed the blemishes that already exist. It exaggerated some of them — foolish penalties, special teams blunders, the inability to run the ball, a lack of killer instinct — resulting in a 19-16 loss to a Tony Romo-less Dallas Cowboys team that struggles to run offensive plays.
- In its first game as a first-place team, the Skins weren’t worthy of prime time. It didn’t make a national audience proclaim it a franchise on the rise, hurdling toward postseason. It didn’t even score a touchdown until the final minute.
- For those fans attending their first NFL game, hopefully the experience won’t leave them scarred for life.
- Washington isn’t changing this season. They played too poorly to deserve a win. The offense managed just 266 yards. The running game averaged 2.8 yards per carry. The team committed nine penalties. The defense recovered three Dallas fumbles, but the offense managed just three points off the turnovers.
BULLET POINTS: WALL, WIZ, WIN
For the second time in a week, the Washington Wizards were tasked with toppling the Eastern Conference’s best team on its home floor. They were facing the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena, and this time, the Wizards were laughably wounded.- Already down to 10 players their previous two games, the Wizards didn’t know whether John Wall, who hobbled off the Verizon Center floor with a right knee injury less than 24 hours earlier, was going to be on the floor to guide them. Wall himself arrived in South Florida unsure about his status.
- As the game began, the two-time All-Star was racing up and down the floor at his usual frantic pace. He exploded for a team-high 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting and seven assists, capitalizing on the spacing provided by the tiny-ball lineups Washington was forced to utilize for a third consecutive game.
- Wall teamed up with Bradley Beal and Gary Neal, who each contributed 21 points, to pull the Wizards (9-10) away in a tightly contested fourth quarter. Beal and Neal scored seven straight between them to break a 103-all tie during the final two minutes. The final score was 114-103, Wizards.
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