It’s games like these that make the Redskins Reality Checks a necessary part of your Redskins fandom. It’s games like this that require realistic expectations, realistic evaluations, and realistic predictions to keep all true Redskins fans on track.
Coming off an impressive, albeit surprising, beatdown of the Packers, the Redskins went into the insanely early bye-week feeling pretty good about themselves through three weeks. Subsequently, they won the bye-week by watching the Eagles and Giants lose and taking over first place in the NFC East. The only possible improvement to the week off would have been to have the Cowboys’ kicker miss that field goal as time expired to make the division 0-3 while the Redskins rested.