The Washington Commanders faced a huge test of their credentials on Thursday Night Football against the Green Bay Packers. As it turned out, they were nowhere near the required standard en route to a defeat that could have been a lot worse.
It was a dismal overall performance in a primetime clash that some analysts thought would be much closer. But the Commanders' biggest positive to take from the contest quickly became painfully obvious.
Granted, the pluses from such a disastrous performance were hard to find. However, if there was once solace for head coach Dan Quinn to take from the clash, it was the performance of Washington's two special-teams gunners — Percy Butler and Tyler Owens.