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Trent Williams: Seahawks aren't 'unstoppable,' Redskins can win - CBSSports.com

The Seahawks are heavy favorites (-7.5) for their Week 5 venture to the East Coast, a Monday night matchup in Washington against the Redskins. Just about everyone is picking Seattle and with good reason(s): Seattle's coming off a bye, the Seahawks are a good football team and Washington was annihilated last Thursday.

Washington tackle Trent Williams would like people to simmer down on going all-in on the Seahawks and believes the Redskins can win, mainly because the Seahawks are "not robots."

"Can we beat them? Yeah,” Williams said. “At the end of the day, they're not robots. They're human beings and nobody's perfect. Nobody plays perfect every Sunday. They have been beaten before. It's not like they're unstoppable. They're a great team, no doubt about it, but anything is possible in the NFL."

This is actually a really great point: typically whatever we think will happen in the NFL is the polar opposite of what actually does happen.

An inability to remove recent bias when evaluating the NFL is about the worst thing you can do. Great example: the Redskins. Kirk Cousins looked like a franchise quarterback against the Eagles in Week 3 and then looked like a undrafted free agent against the Giants in Week 4.

So, um, what happened last week?

“I think just coming off of a hard-played game where we went up to Philly, gave it all for 81 snaps and came up three snaps short, to lose a captain of the defense in DeAngelo [Hall] like we did, it's tough, and to have a quick turnaround against a divisional opponent," Williams said. "It was extremely difficult and I think guys kind of took it for granted. I don't think we put forth our best efforts on Thursday. …

"I think they kind of figured that all we had to do was show up and we'd get that same effort."

Williams also said the level of desperation is "rising" but "not at an all-time high desperate level," which is a little surprising for a team that's 1-3 (with one win over the Jaguars), reeling off an ugly loss (and two division losses) and waiting to host the defending champs on Monday night.