Yogi Berra on the Washington Redskins...

There are certainly holes on the defensive side of the ball. The secondary seems to be on a "bend, don't break" policy, and they almost broke against Dallas and certainly broke to the tune of 497 yards yesterday. The Texans top 3 WRs (Johnson, Walter, Jones) amassed 29 catches for 355 yards and 3 TDs. There is no doubt the Texans have the firepower, but 500 yards is embarrassing. The front seven were putting pressure on Schaub all afternoon (5 sacks and numerous hurries and knock downs), but there were other times where they bit hard on play action and the secondary could not make up for it. Rogers may have gotten his first pick since December 08, but play needs to be stepped up among him, Hall and Buchanon. Doughty got picked on all afternoon, and when Landry came out in OT, Schaub went right after Horton. If the Skins get in these shootouts all year, it won't bode well for Haslett.

The run offense was atrocious yesterday. Pass blocking has been very good so far, but the run blocking isn't opening any holes. Larry Johnson running backwards didn't help, but if there are no holes to run through, the RBs will struggle. Glad to hear Silverback's knee isn't blown out because Heyer is garbage. I expect Shanny to make adjustments, and am very glad (if not a bit concerned to play down to level) to see the Rams next week.

I think we are all going to look back at this game when the Texans are deep in the playoffs and said "we held our own against those guys". These Texans are going to beat a lot of teams this year. They have a very balanced high powered offensive, and the Skins can't run the ball well enough to control the clock and win games at the end of the game right now.

They have some serious issues in the secondary though. Manning and McNabb in back to back weeks have scorched them. Love that offense, but they can't win shootouts every week.

Your blaming the D for almost loosing the Dallas game when they held the 2nd rank O to 7 points and if they did score to 14 points? OK.

What did I say about the defense at the end of the Dallas game that was incorrect?

Either way, IMO, the real reason for the loss was the fact that the Redskins couldn't run the ball, at all...

I think there are pretty serious issues w/this D. That's not to say that those issues require major changes, cuts, etc.

It just looks like there is confusion in the secondary on a lot of plays & the gaps open in the zone have been huge. Even when we rushed 4 the coverage looked out of sync at times.

On a positive note, the run D tightened up some. Hopefully we'll see that kind of improvement week to week as the season moves on.