Weekend Round-Up: Skins Win, Preventive Icing Begins, and Taking It on the Chin

The Redskins got their 1st win of the season yesterday. The question is this: how exactly am I supposed to feel about it? If you watched the game in a vacuum as a Redskins’ fan, you probably came away from the game feeling pretty good. They won on the road. Their defense was suffocating, with a pick-6 and 7 sacks. The offense had a pretty good day running the ball, and they made just enough plays through the air to win the game. But then if you go outside of that vacuum, you remember that this is the Raiders after all…a Raiders team that didn’t even dress their starting quarterback and who lost their best offensive player for the day pretty much as soon as the game started. That might make you pump the brakes slightly. And then you would also remember that the Redskins play in what looks like a truly dreadful division this season, the NFC East. While Washington eked out their 1st win of the year, they scoreboard-watched all 3 of their rivals lose in one fashion or another. With all of that, Washington is only a game out of 1st place in said sorry-a** division as we speak…go figure.

David Amerson's INT for a TD as the Redskins trailed 14-zip in the 1st half may have saved Washington's season...for now.

There was a time when the below image (or ones like it) would make me laugh.

Umm...what?

What is the ice for? No injury occurred! And yet now at my advance age of 28 and a half, let’s just say I get it…even if Krissy, who is the same age and is just as (if not more so) active as I am laughs at me when she walks in a room only to see me with frozen bags of corn and green beans draped all over my body.

There’s not much worse in sports fandom than having a bad fantasy football team. When you’re bad in the beginning of the year, you almost always stay bad. Players don’t just magically get better or uninjured in the middle of the year, and while free agent pick-ups are always crucial, it's unusual for 1 player alone to swing you from the bottom of the league to the top. And when you are your league’s resident cellar-dweller, other managers are looking to fleece you for what little value your team does have…and you almost have to oblige! Beggars can’t be choosers, and let’s face it…if your team stinks, you have to at least consider what normally would be offensive offers. But what is one to do when your roster doesn’t have a top tier running back to speak of, and your best players have underachieved? Either take it on the chin the rest of the season or bite the bullet and start cleaning house I suppose…