1. Trent Williams is really hurting. He seemed to grimace with each step he took en route to the shower, limping along. Williams will undergo an MRI Monday on his left knee and big toe. Don’t know how much time he’ll miss and neither does he. But if he does have to miss time, it’s a blow to the Redskins offense. Also, safety LaRon Landry has a bruised left wrist; it was a struggle for him to remove his shoulder pads with only one hand.
2. Reed Doughty’s face was in an equal amount of pain. Certainly, some fans probably won’t care. But Doughty handled it well, saying this is what he could have done better: “Make the play, get my hand between the ball. Jump up, create havoc. Maybe if he outjumps me hits the ball out when he’s coming down instead of hitting it at the high point.” Contrast that with Fred Davis who said he actually got a hand on Bernard Pollard (he didn’t) and that the ball came out slow (don’t know about that) on the blocked field goal. I’m not blaming Davis for the mistake; the Texans overloaded the side and maybe there was nothing he could do. But he could have at least gone harder at Pollard. Doughty could have said he had position, he just lost to a better athlete. Instead, he tried to find a way to say how he could have done it differently.
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3. Not sure what to make of this, but in consecutive weeks corner DeAngelo Hall has looked ticked off after a Doughty mistake. Against Dallas, Hall said the call was perfect; the execution was not. He’s right, but he was annoyed when he said it. And on the Andre Johnson play, Hall said, “Shouldn’t have happened. We had the perfect play call. Just didn’t make the play. Shouldn’t have happened. Should have never happened.” Of course, maybe he was more upset at corner Phillip Buchanon, who seemed to let Johnson get too far from him. That said, is it really a perfect play call when Buchanon is lined up against Johnson at the line and then passes him off to a free safety who is better at strong safety? To me, that’s not a perfect play call. Buchanon seemed to lack awareness the further Johnson ran downfield.
4. The defensive players were confused as to how Matt Schaub threw for 497 yards despite getting five sacks and hit often. Here’s what Adam Carriker said about his play: “It’s like he was blind to the rush. His best attribute today is that he didn’t pay attention to it. Most quarterbacks would have gotten rattled. But he didn’t seem to do that.”
London Fletcher said, “We brought pressure, we played coverage, we played zone. We mixed up everything. We did all kinds of different things. We couldn’t stop him.”
5. Strong safety Chris Horton admitted he got a bit antsy on his offsides play — and then knew what he did wrong vs. TE Joel Dreessen on the 28-yard pass.
On the offsides, he said, “I’m in the game, I’m really trying to make a play. I have to be smarter given the situation knowing its overtime and all they need is a field goal.”
On the catch, he said he could have, “Just play better technique, move my feet more. I can’t sit there and play catch technique.”
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