Mistakes Cost Redskins In 27-10 Loss To Patriots

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins has played consistently good football in the friendly confines of FedEx Field but in his three road starts this season, Cousins hadn’t managed to play well in any of them.

Linebacker Rob Ninkovich, who had a fumble recovery after defensive tackle Alan Branch blew up a run and knocked the ball out of Matt Jones’ hands, said it also shows the maturity of the defense. The season will most definitely be hanging in the balance. Edelman said it was bad and the team is hoping everything will be all right. But by that time a chance of winning was far out of reach as New England held off for a 27-10 win.

Brady and the undefeated Patriots will look to extend their scoring streak in Week 10 against Eli Manning and the NY Giants. Left tackle Sebastian Vollmer (head) and running back Dion Lewis (knee) left with injuries. The team believes that the 25-year old suffered a left MCL sprain rather than a more serious ACL tear, holding their prayers while awaiting the results of Lewis’ impending MRI Monday morning. But in reality, the Patriots did exactly what they came to do: run the football and play fundamentally sound football.

Hello from Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots (7-0) and Redskins (3-4) are less than three hours away from kicking off their Week 9 game.

The Patriots also became the fourth defending Super Bowl champion to start the season 8-0.

Brady was intercepted for the second time this season – the other resulted from a dropped pass by wide receiver Julian Edelman that went into a defender’s arms – but rebounded with TD passes to wide Edelman and running back Brandon Bolden.

The Patriots have been a juggernaut of the highest order, and the Redskins offered less resistance than a gnat attempting to slow a runaway bulldozer. “I don’t anticipate us being a finished product for a little while, but we’re going to keep grinding at it and good things will happen”. “And now it’s time to move on”.

The Patriots had 14 points, 10 first downs and 10:21 of possession before the Redskins ran their second offensive play.

“The Patriots’ ever-morphing offense is now about to prove that they don’t even need offensive linemen!” former Ravens coach Brian Billick said on Twitter Sunday afternoon.

Cousins was 22 of 40 for 217 yards. At that point, Brady had thrown for one touchdown and each had thrown an interception. Defensively, the Pats allowed Washington receivers to get a few five yards of separation on each of the Redskins’ first two passing plays, and quarterback Kirk Cousins hit each with a spiral in the hands.

Lewis was hurt Sunday after catching a 14-yard screen pass. His left leg buckled as he tried to make a cut, causing him to grab for his leg as he went down.

The Vikings were grateful for Adrian Peterson rushing for 125 yards on 29 carries, which included a deep drive to help tee up Walsh to seal victory.

The Redskins were limited to 15 yards in the first half with most of it coming off a 9-yard pass near the end of the quarter.

New England also lost its first home fumble since 2013. Left guard Shawn Lauvao (ankle) is out for the year and they are using reserve Josh LeRibeus as the starting center. Brady gave a lot of credit to Bolden. “We made a lot of mistakes and dropped a lot of balls”.

Again, the Pats defense kept rolling along. Center Bryan Stork, activated for his first game action as fellow lineman Ryan Wendell went down for the year with a knee injury, replaced Vollmer and played right tackle for the first time in his life. Gostkowski’s second 21-yard field goal made it 20-3. When the team is at full strength, Vollmer plays the right side.

“(It) was just a great drive by all those guys up front”, Brady said.