Worst...Day...Ever: Redskins' and RG3's Season Goes Out with a Limp

A few hours after the Redskins' home playoff loss to the Seahawks, my depression hasn't even begun to wear off...it might still be a while. As a fan, there are worse ways to watch your team go down. A buzzer beating play or a loss directly the result of a terrible official's call are probably the most difficult ones to swallow. A blowout is humiliating and disheartening, but the fact that your team never had a chance actually softens the blow a little.

What happened to the Redskins this afternoon, might be sandwiched somewhere in between ref-screwjob and blowout. Washington raced out to a big early lead and then slowly let said lead slip away like air out of a punctured tire. The kind if loss is particularly hard to take because it's a slow death that you can see happening...like watching each individual air bubble leave your mouth while you drown.

After jumping out to a 14-0 lead, watching Russell Wilson and the Seahawks slowly take control of the game was tortuous.

Since RG3's knee injury, anyone with half a brain can see he hasn't been the same player. But Griffin looked slightly better last week than the week before, and looked even a little better (although still hobbled) in the 1st quarter as the Redskins jumped out to a 14-0 lead. However, a couple of plays before Griffin threw his 2nd touchdown pass of the day, he re-tweaked that knee on a scramble. Even with the early head start, the game took a completely different tone following that drive. You could sense it watching on TV. The crowd could sense it. Most importantly, Seattle could sense it. Even with the early deficit, it was obvious they smelled blood.

Alfred Morris still ran hard, but Griffin's injury allowed the Seahawks to key on Morris. Gimpy as he was, the threat of RG3's play action/bootleg ability wasn't scaring anyone. And with Washington's offense unable to sustain drives and stay on the field, Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch, and the Seattle offense moved the ball mostly at will the rest of the game.

Then, this happened...

Midway through the 4th quarter when Griffin's knee buckled trying to retrieve a bad snap of all things, it was almost too much to take. Ironically, moments later the Verizon Fios cable feed went out in the house. I was enraged and relieved at the same time...down 10 with 5 minutes left to play with your backup quarterback entering the game against a stingy D is not ideal to say the least. By the time I got the cable back on, both teams were exchanging post-game love and face-mushes (thanks, Trent Williams!)...game and season over.

With Griffin laying on the turf, you got the sense that the 80,000-plus people in attendance were simultaneously on the verge of tears.

If Washington had simply lost, it would have been heartbreaking, but it would have been considered a great success of a season to say the least. I will have to go back and check some of my preseason blogs, but I think I had the Skins winning 5 or 6 games even if RG3 was a stud. 10 wins and a division title didn't even register as a possibility. But now, we patiently await results of Griffin's MRI and hope for the best. We also will have to deal with 2nd-guessing about how Griffin's injury was handled and stories speculating to what degree he really was cleared to play...a season that should have given fans much reason for hope in the future suddenly is the cause of doubt and despair.