Skins vs. Eagles: The Great, The Good, and the Not-So-Good

The Great

• London Fletcher.  After struggling with injuries London appears to be back. Today he notches 10 solo tackles and a huge INT.
• Barry Cofield.  He barely shows up in the box score, but his good play allows others to make plays.  Case in point, he tipped the ball that resulted in London Fletcher's INT.  
• Santana Moss.  Only two receptions, but a beauuutiful TD pass dragging his left foot just in bounds on what was a key 3rd down play.  Fantastic to have Santana contributing like this. 
• Ryan Kerrigan.  Credited with two sacks and a forced fumble, he also caused a third sack by pushing his blocker into the Eagles' QB.   
• Alfred Morris.  The passing game was so-so.  Fortunately Morris ran particularly well today, averaging more than 5 yards per carry with a TD. 

The Good

• RGIII.  His mobility was severely restricted, and he threw a couple passes high perhaps because it was difficult for him to plant.  One of the high passes became an INT. Still, he was mainly accurate and always poised -- an above-average QB even when hobbled.
• Pierre Garcon.  Just another day at the office for our #1 receiver, 7 receptions 89 yards including a beautiful catch early in the game.
• Kai Forbath.  I can't call him great because his kickoffs are, well, short and sometimes horrible.  But he is perfect on FGs.  And I don't just mean perfect because he's made all of them, but because his FGs go right down the middle. The uprights are way too wide for this guy.

The Not-So-Good

• Leonard Hankerson.  Just one reception, and more problems with dropped passes.
• The Shanahans.  Unfair to call them "not-so-good" after 6 straight wins, but you probably haven't read this far anyway.  Given how gingerly RGIII moved around today I'm not sure he should have played.  We need him at full health week against the Cowboys, and he didn't do anything today that Cousins can't do.  Perhaps Mike Shanahan should have started Kirk Cousins.
• Also, Kyle Shanahan appeared to have inserted several behind-the-line-of-scrimmage plays for this week, including quick screens and reverses, which the Eagles seemed to anticipate with ease.  Yes, the Skins got a TD on the quick screen to Josh Morgan, but they also lost the 18 yards on the backwards pass/fumble to Moss, and got a whole lot of nothing on several other of these plays.  And before the almost-disasterous backwards pass/fumble to Moss, I commented out loud that these were dangerous backward passes that could easily be fumbled.  In short, these screen passes were high-risk, low-reward -- the worst kinds of plays.