Upon Further Review

More on this tomorrow, but I rewatched the Redskins game again and i must say, i'm a little more encouraged about the offense than i was at the time. The offense did start to click in the 4th quarter and McNabb did make some really good throws. Particularly on 3rd and 4th downs to keep drives alive. Sure he badly misthrew some balls, but that's what you always get with McNabb. Only this time instead of the passes being fired into the dirt at the feet of receivers, some were high and some were just completely off target.

Pass protection was adequate, but the play calling was questionable. I also have issues with the routes the WR run. There were alot of plays where there was not a single receiver running a deep route, certainly nothing longer than 15 yards - and most of those were square ins or outs. Can't at least one WR "go long?" Perhaps that's because the Eagles' don't have a true speedster (i don't count Curtis in that club). Which then begs the question, why don't they? Why don't they have a guy like Santana Moss whose a home run hitter and puts the fear of God in CBs and safeties? How hard is it to draft or bring a FA WR who runs really, really fast? That is all on Andy Reid.

Then again, in the one play where every wideout went on a fly pattern - the play where McNabb overthrew Curtis down the left sideline and into double/triple coverage, it looked to me that Hank Baskett beat his man and was breaking free on a post pattern down the middle of the field.