Redskins react to Monday Night Football loss

And yet, none of that mattered to Dallas, really, because by beating Washington 19-16 on Dan Bailey’s 54-yard field goal with 9 seconds left Monday night, the Cowboys somehow kept themselves in the thick of the playoff chase in the woeful NFC East. Bryant then added receptions of 12 and 8 yards in the final minute to get Dan Bailey in range for the game-winner. “We say whatever it is, eight weeks, there is still season left so we’ll play that situation out but we’re all behind Matt [Cassel] and what he’s going to do for our team and we’ll see what happens if we get to that point”.

At halftime of a game that was boring until the last 90 seconds, Bryant had zero catches and had been targeted twice.

Since the Redskins visit the Eagles in Week 16 and the Giants have the Eagles at home on the final weekend of the regular season, all three division leaders don’t have to count on anyone else at the moment.

Witten said earlier in the week that while he was a bit disappointed that Tony Romo wouldn’t be the one throwing him the pass for his 1000th catch, he didn’t need that to be the case to validate their relationship, or what they mean to each other in the game of football.

Hard to believe, but true. “But I thought that the way our team finished and the resilience we showed, it says a lot about the character of this team”. Because of a power problem, the tablets used by teams on the sidelines were shut off. “We didn’t have tablets, and we didn’t have pictures”. “It’s a challenge (to be without that technology)”.

“It was a dark place to be”, Williams said, “to know that you come into work for a whole month, month and a half, knowing that the games were basically meaningless”. “The great teams, the ones that advance in the playoffs and win Super Bowls, are consistent, and we have not been”. “And we have not been”. It was tough sledding trying to run against Washington’s big defensive front, and he made an absolutely boneheaded decision to run out of bounds and stop the clock when the Cowboys were set up to run time off and win the game without giving the ball back to Washington. Punter Chris Jones, of all people, recovered it. The Cowboys scored the game’s first touchdown two plays and 12 seconds later. Neither was Darren McFadden’s two-fumble performance. Jackson said he heard some encouraging words from Gruden afterward.

“It didn’t surprise me at all to see them hit Jackson deep, with how much time we had left”, Jones said, via the team’s official website.

In East Rutherford, New Jersey, tight end Kellen Davis had one catch for 8 yards for the Jets in their win over the Giants on Sunday. “I didn’t feel safe at all”. There were 10 punts, seven in the first quarter alone….

Monday night’s game, going off of highlights, box scores and tweets, at least, was an absolute disgrace. The defense faced several short fields on the night due to offensive turnovers, and were still able to hold the Redskins to just 16 points.