All Proceeds From This Entry Will Go Toward Healing Jeff Garcia’s Back

If the MVP award is really given out to the player that, without whom, a team would wither away and die, I don't see how Jeff Garcia doesn't win it in a landslide. Luke McCown was a walking sack during his brief time on the field this year, and Bruce Gradkowski is just awful. Without Garcia, it's 2006 all over again on offense.

I mean, Gradkowski is really awful. He broke some kind of NCAA record for passing accuracy at Toledo, but even his completions yesterday were ugly. Joey Galloway had to go to the ground more than once for his catches and Alex Smith had to snag his above and behind him. Gradkowski laid a really nice one into Ike Hilliard, but that's the only one I can remember saying that it was a good throw.

Doesn't Gradkowski have 4.6 speed? He gained 13 and 11 yards on his rushes. Why didn't Jon Gruden call more bootlegs or quarterback draws or sprint-options?

I don't know who Kedric Golston is other than he played on the Washington defensive line yesterday, but he totally stole John Wade's lunch money. Wade is frustrating the hell out of me. Some games he'll be able to stand his own and others he's pushed around like he's on wheels. But he knows all the assignments and makes some great adjustments at the line. It's like they have to choose between intelligence and strength. Why can't they have both?

This is the first game that I saw Donald Penn really beaten on a regular basis. Andre Carter is just plain faster than Penn. Is Garcia's mobility hiding some of Penn's shortcomings, or is Gradkowski just so bad that he makes everyone around him look that much worse? I think that's the riddle the Great Sphinx of Giza asked.

I had to look twice to make sure Greg White didn't start the game. He didn't, Gaines Adams did. Adams is doing all right, but not as good as White. White really needs to start the next game.

For the second straight week, Jovan Haye played his helmet into a quarterback right as he released the ball. Jason Campbell had to take a time out to recover. Haye's reputation is going to have quarterbacks getting rid of the ball maybe a half second before they want to. It's the same effect Warren Sapp used to have.

Tanard Jackson is a football bloodhound. He is always around when a big play is being made. Of course Adrian Peterson is going to get rookie of the year, but Jackson's name should at least be mentioned in those discussions.

The secondary as a whole had a great game yesterday. Except Phillip Buchanon. How he lets Chris Cooley get behind him is beyond me. The fact that he had eight tackles isn't really a good thing. It means players were catching balls in front of him and he had to bring them down. What pissed me off the most, though, was how he was smiling after Cooley's touchdown. He should have been pissed off about it for at least a couple minutes. Don't take it into the next series, but jeez... it should bother someone who cares, right?

Did you see Joe Gibbs and Jon Gruden meet on the field after the game? Gibbs grabbed Gruden's hand for a brief shake and then left as be mumbled "congratulations". He never even looked at him and he barely slowed down. Isn't that awesome? It's nice to get under someone's skin like that. You know the better part? Yesterday was Joe Gibbs's birthday.

There's no way in a just world that the Bucs win that game, and there have got to be riots in the streets of Washington today. I mean, more than usual. But remember the playoff game in 2005 where the Redskins were held to 136 yards of total offense and they still won? Remember the Detroit and Jacksonville games this year? The Bucs have let games slip away that they should have won easily. This one they should have lost but somehow they willed it together. Sometimes shit like this just happens. Don't try to figure it out.