Redskins Reality Checks: Assessing predictions postgame Week 3
By Tim Payne
The Redskins played a clean game in the slop to hold off the Packers.
On a wet and sloppy day at FedEx field, in front of a small and near-neutral crowd, the Redskins put together their most impressive effort of the season, taking down the Packers to improve to 2-1 going into the bye. Despite the wet conditions, the Redskins were extremely sharp on both sides of the ball in the first half and took advantage of a few key errors by the Packers to hold off any comeback attempt in the second half. These are the types of games that good teams find a way to win at home.
And that’s just what the Redskins did. Does that make them a good team? No, but it helps build the case.
And on a day when teams like the Jaguars, Vikings, and Patriots (and Cowboys) lost and looked bad doing it. A win against a quality opponent tends to mean even more.
Three weeks into their season, the Redskins remain in 1st place in the NFC East and have as many 14-plus point wins as they did all of last season. It’s a small sample size, but it’s largely an encouraging sample.
But before we let ourselves get too carried away on the wave of inevitable optimism that comes from the Redskins beating Aaron Rodgers in relatively convincing fashion, let’s take a look back at the Redskins reality checks from before the weekend.