Cousins comes up short in Redskins’ loss to Cardinals

The Redskins took the lead after the first series in the third quarter on Cousins’s one-yard sneak. Carson Palmer threw for 300 yards and three touchdown passes with no interceptions. “It’s a great achievement just to hear that, just to be talked about amongst those great players”. “They go down and have a 15-play drive and then we get the ball back on offense and have two false starts”.

While getting back in the win column can do wonders for a lot of what has been ailing an underachieving team, it’s not a cure-all.

And that should make Cards fans feel pretty good about their situation going forward, at least for the next week. Guard Brandon Scherff and tackle Morgan Moses have played through ankle injuries for weeks, and Moses further aggravated his in Sunday’s loss.

“We ran that play at practice this week, and I kind of took a bad angle”, Nelson said.

That’s the mantra for Arizona Cardinals’ head coach Bruce Arians, and he lived that out to the fullest in the fourth quarter of Arizona’s 31-23 victory over Washington on Sunday.

The Cardinals presented Washington with their biggest challenge of the season, and the offense didn’t live up to the bill.

“What’s the point of playing it safe?” “And we’ve got four games to do that”.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – “No risk it, no biscuit” was back for the Arizona Cardinals.

The loser of last year’s NFC Championship Game, Arizona ended last season just one more win from making it to the Super Bowl. This year, they’ve been hard and stale, like they’ve been sitting on the counter for a while.

Cousins completed 21 of 37 passes for 271 yards and a touchdown.

While the Cardinals have been a bit of a disappointment this season, Johnson has been quite the opposite. Jaron Brown’s 51-yard touchdown in Week 2 traveled 39 yards in the air.

And on what turned out to be the winning drive, Johnson was given the ball once, on a second-and-5 play from Washington’s 25-yard-line with 11:16 left in the game and the Cardinals down 20-17.

Cousins will be tested this week against Arizona’s top-ranked defense. His offensive line is doing nothing to protect him. “Much like any other job, as you perform it longer in the same role, you’re going to get comfortable and say, ‘OK, I’ve been here, I’ve done this, I can do this, ‘” Cousins explained to reporters. Cousins has picked up where he left off in mid-October of 2015 when he began to tear it up.

And Nelson’s was the spectacular one. Once Palmer got to the deepest point in his drop, he had time to survey the field.

“There’s nothing he really can’t do”, Arians said.

Crowder ran down the seam and beat Cardinals safety Tony Jefferson on that touchdown play.

David Johnson’s National Football League career is only 28 games old, and already he is being compared to some of the great running backs of the game. It also was a long time coming.