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Bryce Love Washington Redskins Jersey , Washington fans congregate here and consensus is...mostly...formed.FanPulse surveys will pull together the insights of the most plugged-in Redskins fans among us. If that describes you, then SIGN UP HERE to join other knowledgeable fans (including me and some other Hogs Haven contributors) on SB Nation FanPulse.If you sign up, you’ll be among a self-selected group of fans from Hogs Haven who answer quick polls each week developed by SB Nation. We want to build the definitive poll of informed Redskins fans, and that includes you.Your votes will be anonymous--though if you join, you’re welcome to tell anyone you like. The results of each poll will be published by Hogs Haven, and may end up on SBNation.com also along with the results from other team sites.Ready to sign up as a Hogs Haven FanPulse participant? CLICK HERE.In the most recent SB Nation FanPulse survey, Redskins fans identifiedQUARTERBACK as the team’s top need going into the draft.I confess to being surprised.I see Case Keenum as a legitimate NFL quarterback who is serviceable, and maybe better than that.He won playoff games with the Vikings at the end of the 2017 season.For his career, Case Keenum has a 62% completion rate, 64 TDs and 42 INTs.He had a ‘career year’ in 2017:If the Redskins offensive line can protect him, and if the front office can find him a receiver or two, then Case could pair nicely with a reloaded Redskins defense and the punting of Tress Way to keep the team competitive all season long.My feeling was that, by signing Keenum, the Redskins front office had taken the urgency out of the quarterback position.The Redskins have a guy who can capably start in Philadelphia on 8 September, and who should be capable of playing in all 16 games; after all, he started 30 games over the past two seasons and doesn’t have any real troubling injury history.Here is Keenum’s injury history for his 6-year NFL career, as per sportsinjurypredictor.com:Now Keenum may or may not be able to flash the kind of production he had in ‘17; it was, after all, a bit of an anomalous season for him — the best of his career.But the 31-year old has thrown for over 12,600 yards in his pro career, and has never looked truly bad, though he has looked mediocre many a time.If the Redskins can acquire another quarterback
Bryce Love Washington Redskins Jersey , that’s great.Truly.But I see other areas of greater need.The Redskins are short a starting safety.Ereck Flowers is the current ‘best bet’ at left guard.The Redskins have what is arguably the worst wide receiver group in the NFL.Personally, I voted “other” in the FanPulse survey because I think the 1(a) and 1(b) needs for the Redskins are to find a talented receiver on offense and a starter-quality safety on defense.I see the 2(a) and 2(b) needs as being a talented player to bookend Ryan Kerrigan at OLB, and an interior lineman who can challenge Flowers for the starting LG position and, perhaps, even provide backup for Chase Roullier at Center.I would rate quarterback no higher than 5th on the priority list, and I don’t see any real urgency in the need.The Redskins should be able to get through the season with Case & Colt, with the ‘luxury’ of waitingtill the 2020 draft to get the new signal caller if the right guy doesn’t fall to them in this week’s draft.Today, I’m an 18-percenter, in the “other” group. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Alvin Kamara climbed into the Superdome stands, stood in the first row with his arms folded and soaked in the adulation of fans who were relishing their decision to stick around after all had looked lost.Kamara’s celebration of his 18-yard touchdown reception had an air of presumption, given New Orleans still needed a 2-point conversion to erase what had been a 15-point deficit when the Washington Redskins scored with 5:58 left in regulation. Then again, the Saints’ confidence was understandable; they haven’t lost in more than two months.Kamara climbed back down in time to take a pitch into the end zone for the needed conversion, and the Saints won their eighth straight when Wil Lutz’s 28-yard field goal capped a 34-31 triumph in overtime.“We just kind of hung in there. Guys believed,” said Saints coach Sean Payton, whose mind seemed to be racing as he labored to recall details of the frenzied final stretch. “There were a lot of things happening in a short period of time.”Drew Brees passed for 385 yards and two touchdowns, going 11 of 11 for 164 yards and his only two touchdowns on New Orleans’ final two possessions of regulation. His first TD went to tight end Josh Hill from 3 yards out with 2:53 to go and the last to Kamara with 1:05 left.“I tip my hat to Brees. That’s what he does. That’s what great quarterbacks do. But at the end of the day, we’ve got to make plays,” said Redskins safety D.J. Swearinger, whose first-quarter interception was Brees’ first turnover in four games. “We didn’t do our job. We beat ourselves for sure.”The unlikely comeback made New Orleans the first team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to win eight straight after starting 0-2.“We haven’t encountered a game like this in a while, and it was great to watch the team rally,” said Brees, whose team won its previous seven games more convincingly. “We have the confidence to win in a lot of different ways. We have the personnel to do it and the right attitude to do it.”The Saints (8-2) set up their final drive by stopping Samaje Perine on third-and-1 at the two-minute warning when a first down would have allowed Washington (4-6) to run out the clock.Washington moved into winning field-goal range in the final minute of regulation
Bryce Love Jersey 2019 , only to be pushed back by a fluky grounding penalty that appeared to result from Kirk Cousins’ miscommunication receiver Jamison Crowder, followed by a sack.The Redskins received the ball first in overtime, but the Saints’ hobbled defense, which gave up more yards than in any game during its winning streak, forced a quick punt thanks in part to Cameron Jordan’s sack.“We had a surplus of emotion and a surplus of confidence,” Jordan said. “That was the difference-maker.”Mark Ingram capped a 134-yard rushing performance with gains of 20 and 31 yards on back-to-back carries to set up Lutz’s clinching kick.Cousins passed for 322 yards and three touchdowns, finishing 22 of 32 with no interceptions. His touchdowns went for 40 yards to Ryan Grant, 16 to Chris Thompson and 7 to Jeremy Sprinkle. Grant’s TD, which made it 24-13 in the third quarter, capped a drive extended by a successful fake punt on fourth-and-1 from the Redskins 15-yard line.Perine carried 23 times for 117 yards, including his 1-yard TD.HOBBLED DEFENSENew Orleans entered the game without veteran safety Kenny Vaccaro and then lost top cornerback Marshon Lattimore on Washington’s first possession when he twisted his left ankle diving to break up a pass in the end zone. Leading tackler A.J. Klein (ankle) also missed his first game.The Redskins gained 456 yards — their second most this season — against a defense that hadn’t allowed more than 347 yards in any game during New Orleans’ winning streak.QUESTIONED CALLCousins said he understood why the pivotal grounding penalty was called when he threw to an empty spot where Crowder had vacated, but he disagreed with officials’ interpretation.“If he had turned and looked at me and the ball had been 10 feet over his head, I can just say the ball slipped out of my hand,” Cousins said. “That’s what I didn’t understand — how do you separate an inaccurate throw from no eligible in the area? I felt like an eligible was in the area, so I threw it in the area.”INJURIESRedskins: Running back Chris Thompson was carted off the field with what the Redskins said was a broken right fibula in the third quarter.“Chris was one of our best players if not our best player this year,” Cousins said. “It’s going to be challenging to continue to move the ball with all the guys we’ve had injured, but we’ll find a way.”Guard Shawn Lauvao left in the first half with what team officials described as a stinger. Reserve defensive end Terrell McClain left in the first half with an injured toe.Saints: Lattimore tried to return for the first defensive series of the second half, but lasted one play. Defensive end Alex Okafor left in the fourth quarter, favoring his left leg.UP NEXTRedskins: Host the New York Giants on Thanksgiving night.Saints: Travel to Los Angeles to play the Rams.
