Seahawks Pound Redskins
Seattle beat Washington at home, 35-14, in a game that should not have been that close. Once again John Marshall's defensive plan took a nap late in the game, allowing the 'Skins to come alive. Thankfully, this time he woke up soon enough to put the clamps down to finish the game strong. I have no idea why he gets into these moods of mercy that allow the opponents new life when they should be finished but it is probably far too late in his career to learn to stop that.
In the mean time, Washington Times writer Dan Daily had this to say:
[U]ltimately, the better team won, the Seattle team that has been to the playoffs five straight seasons, went to the Super Bowl two years ago and had the screaming support of a stadium-record 68,297 fans. The Seahawks are what the Redskins want to be — perennial contenders. After four seasons of building under Joe Gibbs, though, the Snydermen aren't quite there yet.
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And so a one-sided game became a close game — and then went back to being a one-sided game. The Redskins would do well to remember that during the offseason when they're making plans for the future. They came a long way late in the year and deserve every bit of praise they've gotten, but all it earned them was a 21-point shellacking by the Seahawks in the first round of the playoffs. Wasn't that how they ended the season two years ago, losing to a superior Seattle team on the road and struggling offensively for much of the day?